Margaret Randall: KPFA's Tribute to writer, poet, feminist & activist

KPFA benefit

KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents

MARGARET RANDALL: KPFA's Tribute to the great writer, poet, feminist, photographer and international activist
Hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia

Wednesday, September 20 2017 - 7:30 PM
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley

advance tickets: $15: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus (3 stores), Moe's, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's

$18 door

Wheelchair access

info: kpfa.org/events

This rare tribute by KPFA is presented to honor the life and work of an author who has shown exceptional creativity and a lifelong striving for justice and equality.

Margaret Randall, born in New York City, is a writer, photographer, poet, activist and academic. She lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She has written extensively on her experiences abroad and back in the United States, and has taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and several other colleges.

Randall moved to Mexico in the 1960s, married Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon and gave up her American citizenship. She moved to Cuba in 1969, where she deepened her interest in women's issues and wrote oral histories of mainly women, "wanting to understand what a socialist revolution could mean for women." Her 2009 memoir To Change The World: My Years in Cuba chronicles that period of her life. She lived in Managua, Nicaragua, from 1980 to 1984, writing about Nicaraguan women, before returning to the U.S. after an absence of 23 years.

Among her best-known books are Cuban Women Now, Sandino's Daughters, and When I Look into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror and Resistance.

Alejandro Murguia, San Francisco Poet Laureate, is the author of This War Called Love (City Lights), Southern Front, Volcan: Poems from Central America, and Stray Poems.

$15 advance, $18 door.