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June Jordan. Poet, activist, educator, and essayist June Jordan was born in Harlem, New York City, in 1936. An only child, she was raised by her Jamaican immigrant parents in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. She began writing poetry at only seven years old. Jordan attended high school at the Northfield School for Girls in ...
June Millicent Jordan (Harlem, 9 de julio de 1936-Berkeley, 14 de junio de 2002) fue una poeta, ensayista, profesora y activista jamaicano-estadounidense autoidentificada como bisexual. En sus escritos, exploró cuestiones de género, raza, inmigración y representación.
21 nov 2022 · I am the history of rape. I am the history of the rejection of who I am. I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of. myself. I am the history of battery assault and limitless. armies against whatever I want to do with my mind. and my body and my soul and. whether it’s about walking out at night.
14 apr 2021 · The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller, will be published by Coppy Canyon Press on May 4, 2021. On May 4, Copper Canyon Press will publish The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller. Below is the book’s afterword by Jericho Brown. June Jordan’s “Roman Poem Number Thirteen ...
June Jordan (1936–2002)—an award-winning writer and social and political activist—was an influential voice of liberation in the civil rights, feminist, antiwar, and gay and lesbian rights movements. Jordan published more than 25 works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and she was also a playwright, librettist, and lyricist. Her ...
june jordan’s “poem about my rights” is one of the most powerful poems i’ve ever read. and the essay/poetry by june jordan revealing (uncovering) the true greatness of phillis miracle wheatly also reveals some of the true greatness of june jordan as journalist, poet, and critic of such great insight and facts developed from evidence and
4 mag 2021 · But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media with the hard decision to love anyway.'"—O, The Oprah Magazine The Essential June Jordan honors the enduring legacy of a poet fiercely dedicated to building a better world.
