James Broughton

DirectingAlso in Acting and Writing

Born November 10, 1913·Died May 7, 1999 (at 85)·Modesto, California·Male

Biography

James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving the community as Sister Sermonetta. His work is quintessentially Californian – exploring and engaging the polar frontiers of wildness and civility, male and female, body and spirit—with the crash of Pacific Ocean waves echoing throughout.

"Ultimately I have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.