James Broughton

Birthday: 1913-11-10
Deathday: 1999-05-07
Birthplace: Modesto, California
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
1988-01-01 Scattered Remains
1983-01-01 Devotions
1981-03-14 The Gardener of Eden
1981-01-01 Shaman Psalm
1979-03-21 Hermes Bird
1977-08-12 Windowmobile
1977-01-01 Song of the Godbody
1976-01-01 Together
1976-01-01 Erogeny
1975-01-01 The Water Circle
1974-01-01 Testament
1973-12-31 High Kukus
1972-03-16 Dreamwood
1971-11-25 This is It
1970-07-30 The Golden Positions
1969-05-01 Nuptiae
1967-12-31 The Bed
1953-10-16 The Pleasure Garden
1951-09-28 Four in the Afternoon
1951-09-28 Loony Tom the Happy Lover
1951-04-20 Adventures of Jimmy
1948-08-27 Mother's Day
1946-11-01 The Potted Psalm