This article depicts a personal journey about how Margaret Randall got into doing oral history, the place of memory in her creative process, and links her own poetry with the oral history work. This article was presented by Margaret Randall at the Literary Theory Study Group of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at CUNY’s Graduate Center. This activity was possible thanks to the support of the Center for the Humanities.

Memory, Margaret Randall, socialism, imperialism, feminism.