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.
Testament
This is It
The Pleasure Garden
The Potted Psalm
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Four in the Afternoon
Adventures of Jimmy
High Kukus
Hermes Bird
Cinématon
Loony Tom the Happy Lover
The Bed
Mother's Day
The Golden PositionsNuptiae
Dreamwood
Birth of a NationThe Gardener of Eden
Windowmobile
The Water Circle
