Margaret Randall: Conversation with Students and Faculty & Poetry Reading

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, F

At 1:30 pm, Ms. Randall will host a Conversation with Students and Faculty about her remarkable story: her life in New York as art liaison for MOMA, her move to Mexico in 1961 to launch with Sergio Mondragón El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, perhaps the most important cultural journal of the sixties and seventies; her years in Cuba, then in Nicaragua, her case Randall v. Ed Meese, Att. General. This will be in the question/answer format.

Later that same afternoon at 4:30 pm, Ms. Randall will read from her new poetry collection The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones, which will be followed by a discussion and questions from the audience. This poetry collection is about connectivity and suggests that humankind is linked by its concerns for global human rights and a sustainable global climate. Named for a root system that connects seemingly separate plants, like a stand of aspen trees, this compilation seeks to celebrate common human roots.

Sponsored by Women and Gender Studies, University Life, The Office of the Provost, Philosophy Department, New Century College, Latin American Studies, Global Interdisciplinary Programs, English Department, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Cultural Studies.