https://jamesragan.com/books daily 0.75 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652402104319-CPYUVHM5MX2L30IDEAGG/IMG_9240.jpg Poetry James Ragan at the Hunger Wall - Prague, Czech Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652401947461-N5NN18E7XFPN63KS9DJO/IMG_9237+%281%29.jpg Poetry Reading at Carnegie Hall - 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653097972476-5LEQQ9F0NH4262T2NQRM/IMG_9251.jpg Poetry Letter from poet-playwright Samuel Beckett thanking Ragan for his poetry — June 10, 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652230375341-CH7ZJLYKNTOB78H2UTZA/IMG_9587.jpg Poetry Copy of Ragan’s poem “The Astronaut,” signed by Apollo-Soyuz Astronauts, Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton, Vance Brand, Alexei Leonov, Valery Kubasov, and guest Wally Schirra during Ragan’s reading of the poem at the 15th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission — USC Science Museum, July 20-23, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655955526115-51Y2H8EWQP44ZYT5J0HN/IMG_9435.jpg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655956952856-DS4HVYPWJBVD23NPP9X5/IMG_9391.jpg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/19e9e98a-b26e-4f01-aa2d-a0c6e9b26a2b/Chuck+Schumer+Senate+Congratulations.jpg Poetry - 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Sometimes you begin with the insight, and sometimes you have to find it. You chase the poem until it catches you.” — James Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/22395007-4db2-4301-be14-2f164b185b9f/IMG_9271.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/fe0cf5fa-4b04-4db0-a440-6f916414846b/IMG_9266.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1327c49a-ad65-420a-a43e-d17c01789cc0/IMG_9294.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/aa3b850f-923f-4963-bfb8-fc9889a33767/IMG_9272.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/f2b484e0-b0ff-462e-a627-0c5d3df37477/IMG_9292.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/e4d5e648-05c6-455b-ac3f-9321985a1720/IMG_9261.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/5e283b83-a1f6-414d-8e57-79e83137160a/IMG_9265.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/adea5414-b190-4665-896d-a5a99775a094/IMG_9264.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/8a0e93ad-c317-4de3-ba06-2766be30e295/IMG_9457.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/27e414d3-bfa4-4cf4-9de6-42849f9e50ad/IMG_9456.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/6d16ad27-a48b-4de1-82f7-254ad9fe5351/Dad+Painting+Cabin.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/bb009863-cb17-4775-940f-c859847bb1f9/Dad+Painting+Sunset.jpg Home https://jamesragan.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1647652270883-10YCWKFVD4XZA3RXVB1Y/IMG_9235.jpg Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649902215036-1A6357CG82YWC9EUCBQT/IMG_9371.jpg Bio - Recipient of a 1996 Telly Award for hosting the TV series Poet’s Chamber for BHTV Cable, Beverly Hills, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648345620290-HMUBJIGCEXBPXXXYS91E/IMG_9300.JPG Bio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649901864449-UETJT82F3VKB4VAET68L/IMG_9420.jpg Bio - Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate (Litt. D) from President John Murtha and Chancellor Paul Maher at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA — 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1647673737571-Z7D6L05SB79XTNJHZV10/IMG_9274.jpg Bio All song lyrics on the Sony Alfa album were written and adapted by James Ragan from his original poetry. “Love Celebration” on Kimiko Kasai’s album Tokyo Special and on Tatsura Yamashita’s later album Go Ahead (1978) was also written by Ragan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1647662914602-5T8GWOMBJ9C842W1VUIP/IMG_9247.jpg Bio Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate (Litt.D) from President Walter McCann of Richmond University, London, United Kingdom - 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/a5e766b8-fa37-4a8d-ab31-4d1cdfd75526/Heaney%2CBob+Dylan+Group+Photo.png Bio In Red Square prior to reading for Mikhail Gorbachev at the 1st International Poetry Festival in Moscow — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649903342604-8F6PZ31BO7JYKMLII4OC/IMG_9514.jpg Bio In 1996 BUZZ Magazine named Ragan one of the “100 Coolest People of Los Angeles: Those Who Make a Difference.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652316251379-D39V4HHM8ENU4I7915MN/IMG_9250.jpg Bio - “My poetic sensibility has always been global. I write to find expression through my poetry and plays in order to bring individuals and worlds, seemingly apart, closer in understanding.” — James Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656740131997-DPVGLURF5PLSQSQ80N5O/IMG_0634.jpg Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656740157069-JBLH6CCTG4OINBW4L2AN/IMG_0637.jpg Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656740188366-V1TF6PLWEF1V2A0RRNE0/IMG_0639.jpg Bio https://jamesragan.com/film daily 0.75 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648949579535-XC9K5XKHE0R3N5CMXPA7/IMG_9321.jpg Film Working as a staff writer in the front office at Albert S. Ruddy Productions, Paramount Studios — 1974 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656530299873-5MAMZDCZNXYB8YVXL8U4/IMG_0604.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654316353103-TQLIAIPN5QG9CBLNK43G/IMG_0330.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656561433671-B950A899LZVESFSUN3AF/IMG_0618.jpg Film Crew gift photo of Marlon Brando from The Godfather Producer, Al Ruddy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656561491822-5HH51ZHREYECFV4L2QKO/IMG_0200.jpg Film Letter from Al Ruddy (Producer, The Godfather) for Ragan's 25th Anniversary Tribute at USC - 4/10/2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656735094178-A4KFS2IUM5JMRWSVJ5ZB/IMG_0631.jpg Film Under contract in 1975 with Producer Al Ruddy to write the script adaptation of Max Frisch’s novel, Homo Faber, for Paramount in Walton-on-Naze, UK. Assoc. Producer, Thilo Theilen, took Ragan sailing as a reprieve from all-day writing. The film was adapted to screen in 1991 with the title, Voyager, starring Sam Shephard and Julie Delpy and directed by Volker Schlöndorff (Tin Drum). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648955005823-Z483IDCSVYF7O03JA15X/IMG_9424.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/5c9b3b65-5090-4bab-b4c7-b1b3c165a408/IMG_1428.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/354cd89c-99b5-47fb-b487-5b1dc64640cb/IMG_1431.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646265958447-BLU6R2EXBQZ635Z9JD15/IMG_9081.jpg Film On set of the Deer Hunter with Robert DeNiro, as Consultant to Art Director Kim Swados. A Michael Cimino film starring DeNiro and Meryl Streep. Universal — 1978 Oscar Best Picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646265996254-S0UWXJ82I16XDPQQXQ22/IMG_9118.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/d89f9e9d-f9f3-4398-b38a-f01fe7565b84/The+Border.jpg Film - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656735396853-SNPRTIOXJVS8TNL991L6/IMG_0632.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656538642389-1UYC5Y4ZQE3BGUSIZG5O/IMG_9278.jpg Film Casting Assistant to Rick Barr on The Border, a Tony Richardson Film for Universal Pictures. On a break with Harvey Keitel on set — 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1d4eef2c-5a93-4a1f-9786-c63be45c7d56/The+Border+Movie+Poster.jpg Film - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/e2494be7-fef3-4cb8-9335-d57ad8cfdafa/Voyager.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649628515900-OYZ1CGYJXZMN7OPRA6B9/IMG_9352+%281%29.jpg Film As a co-writer with Czech director, Lordan Zafranovic, Balkan Island: Last Story of the Century, Prague — 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656538748418-H2IJ7IRMDS35J0MRKL9L/IMG_0609.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648961893150-Z6QE878EH362U5140M94/IMG_9432.jpg Film Actor Miroslav Krobot, Director Zuzana Liova, and Script Editor/Story Consultant James Ragan on Dom (The House, 2011). 2007 ScripTeast Kieslowski Award for Screenplay Cannes Film Festival; 2012 Palm Spring’s Festival New Visions Grand Prix Award; Variety’s Critic’s Choice Award; Trencin ArtFilm Festival Best Actor, Actress, Director; Trieste Award; Budapest Titanic Film Festival Jury Award; Romania’s Aoninimul Trophy; 6 Slovak Film Academy’s “Sun in the Net” Awards (Bratislava); 1 Czech Lion Award, Prague (etc.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648961852224-H4RY8YDJAXZDGBGCHF9E/IMG_9431.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648962175876-1GZ6YKM7NHVW34Z9PCF2/IMG_9327.jpg Film Script-editor/Story Consultant for Clownwise produced by Fog’n Desire Films Prague, Czech Republic (2013). 8 Czech Lion nominations, 4 Critic’s Choice Awards, 1 Slovak Film Academy “Sun in the Net Award” (2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648962228402-QFC07PZ0SM3OKQKWZXPB/IMG_9436.jpg Film Script Consultant on the film, Havel, Prague, Czech Republic (2020). Recipient of 14 Czech Golden Lion Award nominations, winning 2. Best Film, 2020 Rome Ind. Film Festival. Best Film Nominee, Zagreb Int. Film Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/24657941-33a7-4042-8c3b-d837cfcdaad6/IMG_1426.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/acd0f11c-ea3f-4aab-9dc5-dd44c1245dfb/Screen+Shot+2023-06-10+at+1.41.29+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646266745744-GY1OODDZMYJJNLI5RSAQ/IMG_9083.jpg Film Exile, directed by James Ragan as a one-hour Docu-Drama for KCOS-TV. Castro-Ragan Productions. AMPAS Grant, El Paso (1981). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648966576741-4XV02CUN71QND9KA7TXC/IMG_9438.jpg Film On a break from directing, Ragan cameos as a “good-cop/bad-cop” US border guard at the Bridge of the Americas in the movie, Exile in El Paso, TX — 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1647674404488-LCACXK3QW22DC9DKNFP0/IMG_9241.jpg Film James learns to ride a horse with condolences from wife Debora in El Paso, TX during filming of The Border and the Docu-Drama, Exile — 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655954358570-89Q5QXQ7CRATJ9ZGYKZI/IMG_0532.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655954466421-0QHVM25X7LC2IXKK36HF/IMG_0495.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655954501624-BKYK4SA11GJY3CVUW9YO/IMG_0526.jpg Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655954549350-EZ78DKV92CXBDQ9VCP0I/IMG_0531.jpg Film https://jamesragan.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646289523468-L60RFLVGB6U59ZD7UHNT/IMG_9122.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://jamesragan.com/videos daily 0.75 2022-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656559829592-DS38FYBYQJF128WAZN9R/IMG_0614.jpg Videos - Ragan’s poetry was honored for inclusion in the 1996 Warner Bros./Rhino Records CD collection, A Century of Recorded Poetry: In Their Own Voices, which includes voiced readings by Whitman, Yeats, Frost, Plath, etc. https://jamesragan.com/plays daily 0.75 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654318540584-25R6NKF3KPRJHI4WA4WC/IMG_9242.jpg Plays - “Playwriting took on another force for me. It became something I could use to change my society, to heal that society because it was broken, quite broken. So I always look to the artist whether the painter, the musician, the poet, novelist, filmmaker, or playwright to be the necessary voice at a time when we need to share their sensitivities and passions for truth.” — James Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656543058546-NR2VMQNDRSBT8NFDVXGZ/IMG_9102.jpg Plays Sonoma State University, CA — 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656543025822-UGAGXHAQQEABXVCFSMOS/IMG_9259+%281%29.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646257765691-78N97UMD1Y71A7YBAXHR/IMG_9108.jpg Plays Production of Commedia (Ardor Under the Arbor) — 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646250091212-CLET42QN9EP8C0SDYT55/IMG_9103.jpg Plays Moscow premiere production of Commedia (1987) Theatre Russakov— and 20th Anniversary Jubilee Revival (2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651722343697-3SMOM73ZNUJDV1PO1H6J/IMG_9471.jpg Plays Mime Artist, Anatoly Elizarov, star and producer of the 1987 Moscow production of Commedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651722367739-IBLL2N196NZ74V0IV7LB/IMG_9472.jpg Plays Production at Moscow’s Theatre Russakov — 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651722415949-KXASMJ0NXXRMG0L0MB88/IMG_9473.jpg Plays Poet Yegeny Yevtushenko; Commedia Translator, Svetlana Makurenkova; Olga and Anatoly Elizarov at the Commedia Jubilee production, Moscow — 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646259214683-G5J2EZ55JY37MHIA650W/IMG_9107+%281%29.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646259184338-R5MM618XM1HFMPME0BAC/IMG_9109+%281%29.jpg Plays Beijing production of Commedia (Ardor Under the Arbor) directed by Linda Hua at Renmin University — 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652321573714-IZD7SPHNQRELJACWCNM9/IMG_9489.jpg Plays Lecture at Renmin University following the stage production of Commedia — October 15, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652321608649-NY1OBAU7XQC0HFD0EMJ7/IMG_9490.jpg Plays Meeting with actors after performance of Commedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646263901587-8W6W2G7Y3IPFRAP61QWM/IMG_9111.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656543582997-WX1L4FVDHM4O520UIJVA/IMG_0406.jpg Plays - Make it stand out Ragan taking a bow with the St. Vincent College Players cast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646263935365-9EL8MCQP7ZO6DMJI55QK/IMG_9112.jpg Plays Commedia performed at Saint Vincent College — 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646263991306-AB59F167JCTQJGRDV8ZW/IMG_9113.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656543279558-7TFVDAQR8TWGXSFVMIO9/IMG_0169.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656543300639-F6D6YU6OEP8728ATVOH9/IMG_9085.jpg Plays Hollywood, CA — 1972 https://jamesragan.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654298656254-NA7IBEAGVFU6JDS2UTKN/IMG_9500+%283%29.jpg Photos With Yevgeny Yevtushenko after reciting poetry all night at the grave of Nobel Laureate Boris Pasternak, Peredelkino, Russia — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654297995937-3DYN1ASZLER18PZ1C1RM/IMG_9621+%281%29.jpg Photos Poet Robert Bly commemorates the performance with Ragan at the 1985 Moscow Int. Festival of Poetry with a gift of a balalaika to the Ragan family — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654298462306-97KGXGPC5GGZX0BHGU4X/IMG_9322+%282%29.jpg Photos Producer of the USC One Act Play Festival, Ragan addresses the jury including Actress Piper Laurie, “On Golden Pond” director Mark Rydell and “Godfather” producer Albert S. Ruddy — May 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652323426747-ZXL0L5NVFT57N91TYXJO/IMG_9115.jpg Photos James Ragan with playwright Edward Albee, USC William Inge Residency Lecture — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654900205640-8IUL24I311OK1JZI1GJR/IMG_9515+%282%29.jpg Photos USC Southern California Anthology reading featuring poet Carolyn Kizer, Ragan, and novelist T.C. Boyle — December 6, 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654900967290-DP6KLANGL58RANCWQXFL/IMG_0167+%281%29.jpg Photos Reminiscing with Quincy Troupe, future CA Poet Laureate 2002, about their days teaching at Ohio University for the Dept. of African American Studies and English Dept. — 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655617377865-HSSKR4JRDDQXWF7XO7NH/IMG_0470.jpg Photos Congratulating family friend, actor/singer, Ed Ames on his Broadway role in “Man of La Mancha” singing “The Impossible Dream”— NYC, 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655081444365-9H9L27F7ZNXY4V7OZASI/IMG_0425.jpg Photos With actor Kirk Douglas after a poetry recital by Ragan and Yevtushenko for the 72nd Market Street Lecture Series — Venice, CA, 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654901019062-JVIALZP0UN3N7O4Q9I2X/IMG_9410+%282%29.jpg Photos Interviewed Chinese premiere playwright Cao Yu as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Beijing, China — 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651729439504-RPER0TLURVBISAPLCZAR/IMG_9815.jpg Photos Lecturing on American poetry for the US Fullbright Commission at Beijing University and Foreign Studies University, China — 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654900647711-SP9XXUNKYAZ2TQAKE1A0/IMG_9654+%281%29.jpg Photos James Ragan, Jane Hirshfield, and Al Young: Poetry judges of the Dewar’s Young Artists Recognition Awards — 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654901315148-IJU82APXNOU3EGH8F54M/IMG_9230+%281%29.jpg Photos With Galway Kinnell after his Southern California Anthology Reading at USC — 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652326718642-JMTP9YL7TTO4GS5J2XB9/IMG_9807.jpg Photos Hosting South African playwright, Athol Fugard, who delivered the William Inge Residency Lecture for the Professional Writing Program at USC — 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652326748887-SWYFIEPZOPMEMNVFUYTU/IMG_0161+%281%29.jpg Photos Playwright Jerome Lawrence (“Inherit the Wind”) of the Professional Writing Program faculty receives tribute plaque from Program Director, James Ragan — 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654902772211-HL0KCIRNWMYQD7PFL8OA/IMG_9488+%281%29.jpg Photos With author Studs Terkel, Laura and F.D. Reeve, and translator in Moscow — 1990 Studs Terkel’s interview on WFMT Radio, Chicago: “In Jim Ragan’s poetry, there is a lyrical fusing of innocence and wisdom. It is this juxtaposition that makes his work so exhilarating.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653098408316-CIUFHU19YORGUJI1C9HC/IMG_9077.jpg Photos The American Delegation: Studs Terkel, James Ragan, David Halberstam, Harrison Salisbury, Arthur Slessinger and Alfred Kazin at the Moscow American/Soviet Writer’s Conference — Moscow, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656527602529-IBD3N9DZAH160FCSVBDA/IMG_9812+%283%29.jpg Photos 20th Anniversary Faculty Celebration of the USC Professional Writing Program — 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655074592454-6724XLAR2U0PS2IJPZIQ/IMG_0417.jpg Photos Soviet-American Writer’s Conference, “Defusing the Cold War,” Moscow Writer’s Union, Moscow — 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654900683678-T6G2TP1EB68MUQ8QD49Q/IMG_9413+%281%29.jpg Photos With two of his USC Professional Writing Program faculty, CBS Journalist Shana Alexander and Feminist Author Betty Friedan — 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649637781496-BMFIO8EQSM37XQNA1WYG/IMG_9414.jpg Photos Sharing words of wisdom and humor with Betty Friedan — 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648947209404-QDNJCT8E7JOKFN9XJLY1/IMG_9361.jpg Photos President Vaclav Havel, James Ragan, actor Max von Sydow, Front, Tera and Mara Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648947254235-S2HJPHFGSN3Y4DN7WA4V/IMG_9074+%281%29.jpg Photos James Ragan with Czech President Vaclav Havel at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival — 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654902740668-7YZ7152S5HQS8692BNMK/IMG_9468+%281%29.jpg Photos Residing at former Czech President Vaclav Havel’s family residence each summer since 1995 - current. Background photo portrait of Havel at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652318235572-5HOJGZ5FH9ZBTAQ5A5FY/IMG_9356.jpg Photos Ragan at work, writing daily at Havel’s desk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652317803692-6T8IP79EC3K1FAH7M2TG/IMG_0155.jpg Photos Balcony view of Prague’s Vltava River and Hradcany Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652317921771-CJJQW6LXFLOIK3VDRIAN/IMG_9412.jpg Photos Writing with a view of the world from Havel’s balcony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651721724955-A7OXHY1NTNPJBT136V65/IMG_9474.jpg Photos With Dasha and Ivan Havel at Lucerna’s Konicek Restaurant Bar in Prague, Czech Republic, the meeting place for activists of the 1989 Czech Velvet Revolution, Prague — 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654902704785-BJLS7KB5M3ZTOTFVFGL5/IMG_9366+%282%29.jpg Photos With Czech author, Ivan Havel, Director of the Charles Univ. Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS) at his summer home in Kosik, Czech Republic, where Ragan also composed poetry in the Tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651808543979-MD7015HFZ8Y0NRIPSGK4/IMG_9594.jpg Photos Leonardo DiCaprio celebrating Academy Award nomination for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival with James Ragan, Pavlina Solo, and DiCaprio’s grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken — July 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654386371987-NAZ8NYY2IUQMCF9FAUP1/IMG_9470.jpg Photos With Playwright, Tom Stoppard, honored by President Vaclav Havel at the Prague International PEN Congress — 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654903553355-Y49OOTULGC4CUSSXO5T1/IMG_9342+%282%29.jpg Photos With science-fiction author, Ray Bradbury after delivering a Professional Writing Program Residency Lecture at USC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649632797335-VRZ110RBVU37SPRY1LOE/IMG_9233.jpg Photos Portrait of James Ragan by distinguished Polish artist, Danuta Rothschild exhibited during a reading by Ragan at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — Sept. 18, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648964251056-Y18AS7TOPQ6K554ANF3Z/IMG_9277+%281%29.jpg Photos James Ragan at dinner with Robert Redford to discuss mentoring for the Sundance Institute, Sundance, Utah — 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648964222688-DON3ELNSDJ6WLGZL52DB/IMG_9320.jpg Photos Mentoring for Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute Screenwriter’s Lab in Budapest/Seregelzes, Hungary — August 15-20, 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648948989110-8C9RD8M6JHQL68FRWTMV/IMG_9372.jpg Photos James Ragan participating as a panelist for the “Music of Language” Program, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648948949820-PORC5489WHUVA09PRHJ8/IMG_9362.jpg Photos “Music of Language” Program panelists: Top with Mark Strand — Middle, W.S. Merwin — Bottom, Lucille Clifton — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652229156097-BOVZP0I9JA5UTI3V2MXC/IMG_9370.jpg Photos Ragan moderating a CSPAN broadcast honoring Gay Talese at the LA Times Book Festival — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654902805293-R3APOQT5PNN8IXZN9Z3H/IMG_9399+%282%29.jpg Photos Prior to performing with novelist Hubert Selby Jr. at Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA — April 10, 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654387274311-J0LLXKZ7ILD1CQPCUEUV/IMG_9398.jpg Photos Hosting Sharon Olds who delivered the Ann Stanford Residency Reading for the Professional Writing Program at USC — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654387235103-0GGSF7F8W5EFWQJUPPO0/IMG_9397.jpg Photos With Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his Reading for the Molly Barnes Art Gallery, Santa Monica — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656733751835-ELDNU75AIDUYTZ8SKO62/IMG_9369+%284%29.jpg Photos President of Jury at the Trenchianske Teplice Int. Art Film Festival, Trencin, Slovakia — 6/21/ 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656733417467-1FF31RC3XU30TDJEEK68/IMG_9368+%281%29.jpg Photos Presenting French Actress Catherine Deneuve a Lifetime Achievement of Excellence in Film, with Festival President Peter Hledik — 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656527460823-OLLPQ2CNE3CW5REPVWZU/IMG_9651+%283%29.jpg Photos First daughter, Jenna Bush, student of James Ragan and the Prague Summer Writer’s Program at Charles University with classmates, on the Havel balcony. Left - Right: Wesley Haney, Mia Baxter, Ragan, Bush, and Kourtney Kachler — Prague, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654386634313-E5V9ANBMEZF6RPGQ61AK/IMG_9400.jpg Photos Judges for the 2002 USC One Act Play Festival, Pulitzer playwright Paul Zindel, film director Arthur Hiller (“Love Story”), and Oscar winner Mel Shavelson and Festival Producer James Ragan — 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653102124136-TR5YLY7IZXS8KNZA51A8/IMG_9310.jpg Photos Film Director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back) and Jackie Saint Anne at the USC Professional Writing Program Faculty Holiday Party at the Ragan home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653102193956-CAB9ACY091GB0JJQGWC0/IMG_9612.jpg Photos Celebrating Barry Siegel’s Pulitzer Prize (LA Times) at Ragan home. Standing left - right, actor Michael York, James Ragan, Gay Talese, Debora Ragan, Pat York. Seated left - right, Barry Siegel, wife Marti Siegel and Irvin Kershner — 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653101718679-M95UW0B2K71UNOWC6Q1S/IMG_9411.jpg Photos Actress Lauren Bacall dining with James and Debora at the Ragan home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653101791145-Q1RR163OT18ZDD1E9ASG/IMG_9604.jpg Photos Attending a book signing of “Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Sand” by actress Goldie Hawn who worked with Ragan on her poetry — 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653101545638-1FS8I8IHWDACB8JK3J57/IMG_9403.jpg Photos With Comedian Larry David, guest in Berman’s class at USC’s Professional Writing Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653101495814-GJK8LOHSCJFRV4XHJFLX/IMG_9639.jpg Photos A hug for Professional Writing Program Faculty member and author/humorist Shelly Berman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648340747257-XK5J0HLYJ0M1603DMVCX/IMG_9275.jpg Photos James Ragan with Seamus Heaney at Dublin’s Bewley’s Café reminiscing about their 1985 performance at the 1st Moscow International Poetry Festival— 11/19/2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1646269531288-T8LV7Z60R4WD440ATVDY/IMG_9114.jpg Photos Letter sent to Ragan for his 25th Anniversary USC Tribute from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heany: “It was good to see you here in Dublin. Congratulations on your day of honor. We’ll drink a pint of Guinness to you.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655169247244-ORSNITEMGCBUQ5AKA6RB/IMG_0445.jpg Photos Toasting Federico Garcia Lorca at the Lorca Museum with Fernando Garcia Roman, Spanish poet/translator of Ragan’s poetry. — Madrid, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655169210500-D0DSQ4J085YFO76MBHNE/IMG_0420.jpg Photos Lecture/poetry performance at the Academia International de Cinema, Sao Paolo, Brazil — 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656527490539-BWNZI6DBP3HXE8OD3OA5/IMG_0444+%283%29.jpg Photos On set with 1967 Oscar winning Czech Director Jiri Menzel (“Closely Watched Trains”) — Prague, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654387727833-EYP3GXPJU7UXY62297QS/IMG_9595.jpg Photos Czech Actress, Zuzana Stivinova, celebrating James Ragan’s reading for US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Norman Eisen — 8/7/2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883848958-VVU4R597V49QWL5BLDNF/IMG_9613.jpg Photos Vaclav Havel Library lecture and reading — Prague June 16, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883875947-J6OY2HB1HPIS82U9R1O6/Havel.jpg Photos Ragan’s gift of a Professional Writing Program tee shirt to President Vaclav Havel was worn on the day of his resignation in 1992 from the Presidency of the Czech Republic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656527643013-UY39UVIG4E0P1Q7PS3CK/IMG_0423+%283%29.jpg Photos Serving as one of 3 Judges on the Vaclav Havel “Disturbing the Peace Prize” International Jury. Madeleine Albright presented the Award at the Havel Library Foundation, Columbia Univ. NY — Sept. 26, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655075837885-KSPM0UKYXCALMDDMTVQE/IMG_9437.jpg Photos Advisory Board members of the Fred Rogers Institute, James Ragan, Joanne Rogers (wife of Fred Rogers), and David Hartman (original host of Good Morning America) at the Institute, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe PA — 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883471525-HA0QVE057Q99WCBJK20S/IMG_9504.jpg Photos Ragan and panelist Tatiana Gregor Brzobohata https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883502729-H7W7WE5MV00B3OS02H5B/IMG_9503.jpg Photos 30th Anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution. Panelists, L-R: Ragan, Ambassador Envoy Vaclav Bartuska, author Jan Bubenik and UN Women’s Rights Advocate/Miss World 2016 Tatiana Gregor Brzobohata, Loyola Marymount U. — 11/20/2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656562877709-AN447W0HYNRQSV0HDVNX/IMG_0619.jpg Photos On the Vaclav Havel balcony with Pavol Sepelak, Czech Ambassador and Consul General to the LA Czech Consulate — 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1656562925607-4DVT54F5ZIDY8XXPVYME/IMG_0621.jpg Photos James and daughter Tera, walking the LA Women’s March, with daughter Mara taking the photo. https://jamesragan.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2022-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648336187110-EXSDX3SEQIE2RKMFONU4/Flowers+and+Roots+poster.jpg Documentary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651884132557-VJC2I0ZN3231HERG100V/IMG_9615.jpg Documentary “Flowers and Roots” director Jozef Dodo Banyak filming Zuzana Liova, director of the film “Dom” (“The House”) with script collaborator James Ragan at Hviezdoslav Square, Bratislava — 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651882757989-7IQZUE4LFSR80GBOON1A/IMG_9484.jpg Documentary European film premiere at the Bratislava Int. Film Festival of “Flowers and Roots” with Arina Film Producer Silvia Panak, Director Jozef Dodo Banyak, and James Ragan, subject of the documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651884186687-W9K3MR21SITZR7U0UZ9F/IMG_9599.jpg Documentary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648339049484-X26AVNS71M0Z3YW8ON9A/IMG_9121.jpg Documentary Winner of 17 International recognitions including the Remi Platinum Prize at the 49th Houston International Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655170089660-807D0ELDG9IQQRBAWXKG/IMG_0446.jpg Documentary James Ragan and family celebrate his son Jameson Jon on his award as Composer of the score for the documentary “Flowers and Roots” — 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655170116164-DPJM9BVRU4XWQ6VD1GXA/IMG_0448.jpg Documentary One of 17 Award recognitions for the documentary “Flowers and Roots” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652231198157-HER0YML8LU2ALJZL6WJC/IMG_9309.jpg Documentary Tribute Panelists at Regal Cinema Los Angeles (from left - right) Michael Khandelwal (Moderator), Alan Fox (Author), James Ragan, Cathy Lee Crosby (Actress), Al Young (CA Poet Laureate), David Bianculli (NPR), David Hartman (Good Morning America) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652231239634-BTDQ6Q23JGZ4ULCOY26S/IMG_0151.jpg Documentary Above, Tribute Panelists and James Ragan addressing audience — 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652231146018-ONHA7UTMK4C1K7C47QYK/IMG_9303+%281%29.jpg Documentary Tribute Host Czech Ambassador/Consul General Pavol Sepelak https://jamesragan.com/performances daily 0.75 2022-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652400726748-BK9ACYA3577J02RTA2BE/IMG_9130+%281%29.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648968945521-DC5IH3R0I2JY2PRHUP34/Heaney%2CBob+Dylan+Group+Photo.png Performances In Red Square prior to reading for Mikhail Gorbachev at the 1st International Poetry Festival in Moscow — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648969740679-5AOW8H0S0WVHQVLWWKPE/Yevtushenko+Ragan+on+Stage+in+Moscow.jpeg Performances James Ragan on stage preparing to read with invited poets at Moscow’s First Int. Poetry Festival — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648969986011-9ZKCEN9EJ5IDPYUPM09A/IMG_9069.jpg Performances Performance by James Ragan, Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly and Bob Dylan for Gorbachev and audience of 8,000 in Moscow, Russia — 1985 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1648970672542-94NYENS2R5GER05J4TXQ/Palace+of+Culture.png Performances Reading for Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov and an audience of 6,000 at the 1986 World Conference, Peace, the Hope of the Planet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649621115853-D54SRM8ZACXQUIA0FUY3/IMG_9319.jpg Performances Reading with poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the Wilshire Blvd Temple, featuring the poem “Babi Yar” about Nazi genocide, Los Angeles — March 9, 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654310477422-H2KR7LDDSYS55XGAGT3A/IMG_9326.jpg Performances Reciting at Hosho Ji Temple, Tokyo, Japan — Oct. 14, 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654310545659-UAF4B20WYD3QEZ8SQE7Z/IMG_9820.jpg Performances With wife Debora, daughter Tera, and actor Jack Lemmon after performing for the official Chinese Delegation touring the US, Lemmon on piano and Ragan reciting poetry — Los Angeles, 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651805084046-NBZJQFNCCCAJAJTUCCQD/IMG_9810.jpg Performances In attendance, Leonard Bernstein composer/conductor of the NY Philharmonic — 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649395407450-ZWO6NQN5MNEOYR8JUALZ/IMG_9229.jpg Performances After performing with Allen Ginsberg at the Village Gate, New York — November 19, 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652319406019-8QHWKGBPHAE57Y4N4P7D/IMG_9508.jpg Performances Reading at the Los Angeles Theatre Center — 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652319581035-S85H94RF14MMVH63J9RI/IMG_9143.jpg Performances With 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott after both performing in the reading series at the Los Angeles Theatre Center — June 1, 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655168935678-17KQAE7TJPLYJUVFBRUP/IMG_9116.jpg Performances Brian Wilson, Ragan, Hubert Selby Jr. celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s Residency reading for the Professional Writing Program at USC — March, 8 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655168970401-JW1ZK2VQZ7F1135OPJKC/IMG_0447.jpg Performances Invited to perform for the 1st anniversary of the Nov. 17, 1989 Czechoslovakia Velvet Revolution — Prague, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651727741780-SYDTBT0SLXQ7JIMPENH3/IMG_9486.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651728338430-11A2UK6L12LPD0Y9IYPK/IMG_9814.jpg Performances Reading for Ambassador Jack Matlock at the US Embassy with poets Richard Wilbur (seated), John Ashberry (at podium with translator), and James Ragan. Moscow, Russia — May 24, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883096279-SK48Q9FBKGTHI0Q68UVR/IMG_9497.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651883068881-51Q9QWQW2M777WQU6QE9/IMG_9498.jpg Performances Performing to an audience at USC with poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko for the Professional Writing Program, Univ. of Southern California — 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649636439014-W30JUFQVEV7FFHR4510V/IMG_9460.jpg Performances Top with author Alan Fox — Middle, store founder George Whitman — Bottom, James Ragan Reading to audience at Shakespeare and Company — 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649636416269-5XDKLT66G7IB7B0XPR8X/IMG_9423.jpg Performances Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris — 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649389008722-8PPGZY4J52YQVN2T1Y9G/IMG_9072.jpg Performances Reading with Arthur Miller for President Vaclav Havel at the World PEN Congress — Prague, 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649388948312-TJBBC7L5085ENGQNR7O8/IMG_9341.jpg Performances Audience in attendance for the Miller/Ragan reading at the 1994 World PEN Congress in Prague https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655615494096-RX6SDM44X9IKD5J6Q2RP/IMG_9394.jpg Performances Ragan performing with Czech Nobel Prize nominee Mirolsav Holub at the Viola Theatre, Prague — 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655615769628-8I5NWOPV1CYTR4EP7YXO/IMG_0467.jpg Performances Panel with playwright Arthur Miller, poet Rose Styron, and James Ragan, World PEN Congress — Prague, 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649623707687-79FBTQBK9PQJZ653AY4L/IMG_9458.jpg Performances Top, Introduction by Playwright Donald Freed, host of the book’s publication party — Below, Joint Reading with Julie Harris of the Holocaust poem “Terezin” from The Hunger Wall — 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649620497943-VBMEU6WHLI7P7CPTXBXJ/IMG_9346.jpg Performances Ragan and Broadway Actress, Julie Harris preparing for joint poetry Reading from Ragan’s book, The Hunger Wall Lines from the poem “Terezin” : “And with my hair soot red, I hurried through the “Gate of Death,”/ up the gallows knoll, past the oven grates to holding cells./ On the slab at Terezin in the “Lord’s House,”/ I climbed to bed cold as heaven, and played dead.” — James Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649617631438-FMH3F3K0GVO3ZZ5ZOJZK/IMG_9351.jpg Performances Audience, including Slovenian President Milan Kucan at the Karst Caves — Sept. 7, 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649617600381-81PWJEIQHGCNSOKRU30X/IMG_9350.jpg Performances James Ragan reading at the Karst Caves in Lipicca, Slovenia with translator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654907667322-UAS7M77FZFQ3FXP9NMMK/IMG_9367.jpg Performances Performing with author Gay Talese (wife Nan Talese in attendance) for the LA Public Library — 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653103807948-M0KIJ9H7MJKO2F2N8JKK/IMG_0150.jpg Performances Slovenian Poet Veno Taufer reading Ragan’s, In the Talking Hours after reciting at the American Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia — 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649394107358-HYC05YVMZ7UILY5EOSS8/IMG_9329.jpg Performances Ragan family and friends attending the poetry performance of Ragan and Galway Kinnell, Carnegie Hall — 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649617888857-A6CBRV7UI2I82TUAN9CB/IMG_9228+%281%29.jpg Performances After performing with Galway Kinnell at Carnegie Hall, pictured with Ragan family — 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649389729561-5NWDS61C83JD08KXL946/UN+Reading+Audience.jpg Performances Audience at the United Nations UNESCO World Poetry Day — 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649905541018-N0KLSSN8LEHVVXY21DEB/United+Nations.png Performances Reading at the UN for the UNESCO World Poetry Day with Joyce Carol Oates — March, 29 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654908442131-H8NLFD4O78LX02JI2BYG/IMG_0408.jpg Performances Keynote speaker/performer at World Congress of Poetry, Bratislava, Slovakia — June 2-5, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654908399610-FEXZRDCUIYAMMMCIKHE4/IMG_9509.jpg Performances Performing at the Poetry Café, London — 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653102834386-D4CED7W9RWLEYQPDE8I1/IMG_9237+%281%29.jpg Performances Solo performance at Carnegie Hall, New York — 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653102861324-0F5QYVYLZQWTPNOALRVB/IMG_0157.jpg Performances After reciting Ragan’s translation of Vaclav Havel’s poem “September Sunday” with First Lady of the Czech Republic, Dagmar Havelova at the Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, LA — 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1652325528848-HZF2C61UE1EY4PZMV8RO/IMG_9478+%282%29.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651725355603-I3ACQIU7RHH421QFOP21/IMG_9479.jpg Performances Ragan performing at the University of Southern California on the first anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center — 2002 Lines from “On Liberty and Church Streets in Lower Manhattan” by James Ragan: “I would be a citizen of the earth and crawl the moon’s lit path/ to join a universe of hands in weeding out all boundaries.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651877944703-CB748GU82LT6AAKM8EC8/IMG_9502.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651877911221-3JFOYGFUEGSWIQTCW98I/IMG_9501.jpg Performances Reciting at the Polish Embassy for Ambassador Andrej Krawczyk, Prague — July 30, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653103195249-ZNDKYJ1O7CF7EV3NO4YB/IMG_9618.jpg Performances Journalist Murray Fromson, CBS Correspondent, attending James Ragan’s reading and book signing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1653103351627-K5KEPSFHR6HD2M773MZ0/IMG_9600+%282%29.jpg Performances Reading at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — UCLA 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654908791801-ETCICHUDS22N4LNPHG85/IMG_9302.jpg Performances Performing along with poet Anne Waldman at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles — 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654908822631-TR46509ACOPV1BVFFLD3/IMG_0409.jpg Performances Lecturer/performer on the Novikov Priboy cruise ship on the Volga River from Moscow to St Petersburg — August 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649391562001-AOHSPJHEYPAYMFI5OWAX/IMG_9307+%281%29.jpg Performances Debbie and Ambassador Craig Stapleton at US Embassy, Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649391532766-EPGDDXXUIQL1GT5D2ANM/IMG_9306.jpg Performances Reading for US Ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton at the US Embassy Paris, — 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654909256238-9BHW36C7EHCORPBJZ5S6/IMG_0410.jpg Performances Reciting for Czech President Vaclav Klaus at the Los Angeles Czech Consul General’s residence — 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654909226707-23D9IYRSB9YJC5TX8NR9/IMG_9507.jpg Performances A gift of Ragan’s “The Hunger Wall” in Czech translation to Czech President Vaclav Klaus after performing at the LA Czech Consulate — 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654909474251-90RJ1LWMXHN6GHJTUE8V/IMG_9480.jpg Performances Reading for members of the International Lost Cities Expedition, Lhasa, Tibet — 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654909527006-SQLW9GGD4O1M1MHW7B5H/IMG_9481.jpg Performances Dalai Lama’s Winter Residence, Potala Palace, in Lhasa Tibet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655074986445-5WW5D5RGRA1GJI249C2R/IMG_9482.jpg Performances Meeting with representatives of the Samarkand cultural community, Uzbekistan — 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655075031561-9CGM8T57WNVKGAWN32UP/IMG_0419.jpg Performances Reciting at the Globe Bookstore Anniversary, Prague — 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1649391913363-K3LQVPOYSM2NT8CCZ1C5/IMG_9360.jpg Performances Joint reading with famed Czech singer Eva Pelarova for Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Prague Castle — 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654910776561-EJJDDS5USUIJRDHRYGTA/IMG_9318.jpg Performances In addition to the Chinese hosts, the World Literature Today Conference included authors from 15 nations — Beijing, Sept. 16, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651882141741-4LA53X5Q015DHQ8XR0UY/IMG_9492.jpg Performances A Keynote address and reading at the World Literature Today Conference Normal University, Beijing — 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654309574379-2XR3W02GH61I5RQI5J6K/IMG_9643+%281%29.jpg Performances Reading at the American Center, United States Embassy, Prague — 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1654309520553-DCBKDQCRDZL0KEZXPZR7/IMG_9809.jpg Performances Reading at the University of Lisbon as part of a State Dept. tour of five universities in Portugal — October 15 - 21, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651726250350-3EHEOSJMMT0LZO35CMOS/IMG_9813.jpg Performances Greeting Czech Prime Minister, Bohuslav Sobotka before reading performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1651726282146-TA8TUCS404OUDL3X2YKI/IMG_9475.jpg Performances Reading for Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka at the Czech Consul General Pavol Sepelak’s Residence, Los Angeles — April 1, 2016 https://jamesragan.com/prague-workshop daily 0.75 2022-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655173426751-PHQ2HEXYD6GPFIG5ULW3/IMG_0335.jpg Prague Workshop “Bring the universe of your imagination with you.” — James Ragan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655172419854-AOM9EM0W3SUKK6ESIR3D/IMG_0397.jpg Prague Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655172391035-2ZR9X7IGGRHBAGDJ4BZ5/IMG_0396.jpg Prague Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655172557003-DO7B4YYXY0AUJQZKK2Q3/IMG_0435.jpg Prague Workshop - Make it stand out Prague’s Old Town Square, one block from the Charles University campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655076980826-OQL64NI5E2TAM1YEMAEX/IMG_9323.jpg Prague Workshop Czech and American students attending Dr. Ragan’s workshops in Poetry and Screenwriting at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655077032549-5FFXC8O8DS6A11R3TWII/IMG_9409.jpg Prague Workshop Dr. Ragan’s class visiting the John Lennon Wall in Prague, crafted in 1980 in honor of John Lennon after his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655686867706-YILZ1GZBQ4B27H0DQQRM/IMG_0434+%281%29.jpg Prague Workshop One-on-one meetings on the River Vltava at Lavka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c42c902a93537eff9cb4ca/1655686646945-M00BRWDAAOFS24A2NOZJ/IMG_0432.jpg Prague Workshop Celebrating “Bloomsday” on Petrin Hill overlooking Prague 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