Voices of Justice & Beauty: Margaret Randall & Larry Goodell

Long-time poet-activists MARGARET RANDALL & LARRY GOODELL bring their unique & dramatic voices for justice & beauty to Santa Fe.
Poet, photographer, and translator Margaret Randall was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. She participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and lived in Cuba and Nicaragua. The government declared her writings “against the good order and happiness of the United States” and unsuccessfully attempted to deport her. Randall has authored over two hundred books, including Che on My Mind, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary, and Artists in My Life. Recent titles include Luck, Home and This Honest Land. She has received the Poet of Two Hemispheres award from Poesía en Paralelo, Ecuador, AWP’s George Garrett Award, Albuquerque’s Creative Bravo Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from UNM.
Son of a State Representative and later State Senator, Larry Goodell was born in Roswell in 1935 and schooled at USC and UNM. He studied with Robert Creeley and founded Duende Press in 1964. His poetry evolved into performance with handmade masks, costumes, and settings verging on ceremonial as he organized poetry events at the Living Batch Bookstore in Albuquerque where he worked. He recorded these events and they can be heard online at duende.bandcamp.com. Goodell lives in Placitas where he was a director of the Duende Poetry Series and now publishes books and refines his Southwest literary archives.