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Margaret Randall

Margaret Randall (1936) was born in New York City but grew up in Albuquerque and lived half of her adult life in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. When she returned to the U.S. in 1984 she was ordered deported under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality's McCarran-Walter Act. The government alleged that her writings, "went against the good order and happiness of the United States." She won her case in 1989.

She is a local poet who reads nationally and internationally. Among her recent books of poetry are My Town, As If The Empty Chair / Como Si La Silla Vacia, and The Rhizome As A Field of Broken Bones, all from Wings Press, San Antonio, Texas. A feminist poet's reminiscence of Che Guevara, Che On My Mind, is just out from Duke University Press, a new collection of essays, More Than Things, is out from The University of Nebraska Press, and Daughter of Lady Jaguar Shark, a single long-poem with 15 photographs, is now available from Wings. Her most recent poetry collection is About Little Charlie Lindbergh (also from Wings Press).

Randall resides in Albuquerque with her partner, the painter Barbara Byers, and travels widely to read and lecture. You can find out more about Margaret, her writings and upcoming readings at, www.margaretrandall.org.


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Ask Your Doctor

10. October 2013

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By Margaret Randall Ask Your Doctor

The quick fixes of Big Pharma propaganda have separated us from a common sense notion of health.

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Friday Voyage: Mystery Valley

03. October 2013

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By Margaret Randall Friday Voyage: Mystery Valley

Discovering the hidden wonder of this lesser traveled, more intimate gem in the shadow of Monument Valley.

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Montagues and Capulets

02. October 2013

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By Margaret Randall

As our country goes into its second day of partial government shutdown, many foreigners ready to spend their money at our national parks and other points of interest are being told their destination is closed. They don’t understand how a standoff between two modern political parties in a democracy constantly advertised as worthy of emulation can paralyze a nation, furlough federal workers, and stop important services. This couldn’t happen at home, they say...

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The New Normal

01. October 2013

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By Margaret Randall

Because of our elected officials’ extreme polarization, important sectors of our nation closed down this morning. Government services not deemed to be essential have been forced to shut their doors. National parks and monuments have lines of cars stopped at their gates (many carrying visitors coming from halfway around the globe). Even some workers whose expertise guards our safety, such as a percentage of air traffic controllers, are off the job. More than 800,000 government workers have been furloughed without pay, with thousands more required to continue laboring, also without pay...

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Friday Voyage: Croatia

27. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall Friday Voyage: Croatia

Massive walls, lavender fields, beautiful countryside and a cordial people still recovering from the ravages of war.

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A Museum Experience in Farmington

23. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall

I didn’t know Farmington had an art museum and decided to check it out. In fact, the city of 46,000 in the northwestern corner of our state does not have a museum dedicated exclusively to fine art. But its city museum just finished giving a three-month run to one of the best collections of painting, sculpture, photography, prints and relevant ephemera I have seen in New Mexico—or anywhere else. “An Adventure in the Arts,” a 73-piece collection of 20th Century masterworks on loan from the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York, opened on July 20th and closed on September 21st...

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Friday Voyage: Canyon de Chelly

20. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall Friday Voyage: Canyon de Chelly

Generations of Diné resistance in a land of mystical beauty.

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Friday Voyage: Cambodia

13. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall Friday Voyage: Cambodia

Margaret Randall explores the unifying consciousness of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

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September 11th and Syria

11. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall

Each September 11th since 2001, as another anniversary of a tragic assault upon this country’s life and treasure is observed, we relive those horrendous images and think in powerful unison about the almost three thousand lives lost that bright fall day. Some of us mourn loved ones. Some feel collective grief. The hearts of some still pound with a desire for revenge. Some wish the tragedy had provoked a deeper, more profound and useful national conversation about the roots of anti-American hatred and what it means to live in a multicultural world—where one country cannot forever play the bully role and still expect to be loved and respected...

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Friday Voyage: Breaking the Maya Code

06. September 2013

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By Margaret Randall Friday Voyage: Breaking the Maya Code

Margaret Randall takes us on a journey of linguistic, cultural and academic creativity across continents.

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