61. PAL: June Jordan (1936 - 2002) Chapter 10 Late Twentieth Century june jordan (1936-2002). Outside Links UC Berkeley Obituary Voices from the Gaps JJ . jordan, june. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/jordan.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - June Jordan (1936-2002) UC Berkeley Obituary Voices from the Gaps: JJ Primary Works Selected Bibliography ... Home Page Source: New York State Writers Institute Top Primary Works Who look at me. Illustrated with 27 paintings. NY: Crowell 1969. PS3560 .O73 W5 Some changes. NY: Dutton, 1971. PS3560 .O73 S6 His own where. (novel) NY: Crowell 1971. Juv Fiction J82 h Fannie Lou Hamer. Illustrated by Albert Williams. NY: Crowell 1972. Juv Biog H214 j New life: new room. Illustrated by Ray Cruz. NY: Crowell 1975. Juv Fiction J82 n Things that I do in the dark: selected poetry. NY: Random House, 1977. PS3560 .O73 A6 Passion: new poems, 1977-1980. Boston: Beacon P, 1980. PS3560 .O73 P3 Civil wars. Boston: Beacon P, 1981. E185.615 .J67 On call: political essays. Boston, MA: South End P, 1985. PS3560 .O73 O5 Technical difficulties: African-American notes on the state of the union. NY: Pantheon Books, 1992. E169.12 .J657

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63. The Village Voice: CityState: June Jordan, 1936–2002 By Thulani Davis june jordan, 1936–2002 by Thulani Davis june 26 July 2, 2002 (photoJill Posener), he loss of june jordan is a great one—a http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0226/davis.php

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64. JUNE JORDON (1936- ) Gloves . Valencia Community College. LRC West. Pathfinder jordan, june.http sources. jordan, june. Eyewitness in Lebanon. Salam Review. http http://ucl.broward.edu/writers/jordan.htm

JUNE JORDAN (1936- ) University of California. Department of African American Studies. Professor June Jordan http://violet.berkeley.edu/~africam/jordan.html Short biography, list of publications and awards and honors. Mullins, Brighde. Introduction for June Jordan. http://www.diacenter.org/diacentersite/prg/poetry/96%5F97/intrjordan.html June Jordan's purpose of poetry Brief biography List of publications Selected awards and honors BookWire: June Jordan http://www.bookwire.com/BookInfo.Author$11186 Short biography with link to two poems June Jordan http://sac.uky.edu/~jafish0/manifest.htm Text of "Manifesto of the Rubber Gloves" Valencia Community College. LRC West. Pathfinder: Jordan, June. http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/jordan.html Biographical sources Critical sources Jordan, June. Eyewitness in Lebanon. Salam Review. http://salam.org/leb/junejordan.html June Jordan's eyewitness reaction to the country and people of Lebanon as victims of war in the Middle East. Jm University/College Library at Broward Community College

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66. June Jordan: POEM ABOUT PROCESS AND PROGRESS Readings in Contemporary Poetry. POEM ABOUT PROCESS AND PROGRESS.for Haruko Hey Baby you betta hurry it up! Because since you went http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/96_97/jordan.html

POEM ABOUT PROCESS AND PROGRESS for Haruko Hey Baby you betta hurry it up! Because since you went totally off I seen a full moon I seen a half moon I seen a quarter moon I seen no moon whatsoever! I seen a equinox I seen a solstice I seen Mars and Venus on a line I seen a mess a fickle stars and lately I seen this new kind a luva on an' off the telephone who like to talk to me all the time real nice Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk) Back www.diacenter.org

67. June Jordan: "Childhood Memories, Poetry & Palestine" An interview with the author.Category Arts Literature Authors J jordan, june......june jordan Childhood Memories, Poetry Palestine Interviewed byDavid Barsamian Boulder, Colorado, October 11, 2000. june jordan http://www.alternativeradio.org/Jordan02.html

Home Tapes Transcripts Books ... Ordering Information JUNE JORDAN Interviewed by David Barsamian Boulder, Colorado, October 11, 2000 June Jordan is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She also directs the Poetry for the People program. She writes for The Progressive magazine. She's an award-winning poet and essayist. She has numerous books, including Technical Difficulties Naming Our Destiny Affirmative Acts and Haruko/Love Poems . Her latest work is Soldier , a memoir of her childhood. Soldier . What a curious title. Is this about some military activity that you've been hiding from the public? It's about the military activity of my father raising me to be his son. He was an immigrant from Jamaica. He actually came from Panama. My mother was from Jamaica. You grew up in Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant in a kind of bicultural home. Definitely bicultural and definitely the home of immigrants to this country, which means that my parents, especially my father, arrived and stayed here with both the highest possible expectations of this country, of democracy as he thought of it and of his only child that he was raising to be a successful person in the world. He probably would have liked me to grow up to be a successful white man. You were his helper, his sidekick.

68. The Invisible People | June Jordan In The Progressive Magazine Article in The Progressive.Category Arts Literature Authors J jordan, june......An Unsolicited Report on Black Rage By june jordan. june jordan is a professorof African American Studies at the University of California–Berkeley. http://www.progressive.org/jord0301.html

The Invisible People An Unsolicited Report on Black Rage By June Jordan We do not play. Ninety percent, or more, of us voted for Gore, nationwide. "I would have been amazed if we'd voted any differently!" the distinguished political scientist Charles Henry exclaims. He's chair of African American Studies at U.C.–Berkeley, and he speaks without hesitation: "As an electorate, we are very sophisticated." And, rapid-fire, he cites several instances when black folks shifted our votes to whatever column held the most for us, on a programmatic level. "Besides," he amplifies, "per income grouping, we weigh in more active than white Americans: more aware of the differences among candidates, more attuned to the content of the choice, and more likely, through daily conversations, and, even, literal organizing efforts, to keep political matters front and center." He's talking with me as readily as, just an hour before, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison answered my call. I'd rung her up and asked, "What do you think of this mess? This stolen election?"

69. Do You Do Well To Be Angry? | June Jordan | November 2001 Issue Of The Progressi Just Inside the Door june jordan. Do You Do Well to Be Angry? june jordan is a professorof African American studies at the University of California–Berkeley. http://www.progressive.org/0901/jord1101.html

Just Inside the Door June Jordan Do You Do Well to Be Angry? (The Book of Jonah, 4:4) dedicated to Stephanie Yan Into that infamous Tuesday inferno of fire and structural collapse, a humbling number of men and women fell to a horrifying death. And now the rest of us remain, stricken by fear, stricken by grief. We have become a wilderness of jeopardized loved ones, and terrifying strangers. I am an American. I listen to our leaders calling for "the eradication of evil," and I am wondering, who among us is without evil? What nation, what people, what stretch of my own personal history is good without blemish, without blame, without crimes of inertia, at least? Was our firebombing of Dresden a terrorist attack? Or Hiroshima? Or the bombing of Beirut? Or our bombing of Baghdad? Is there anything for which we, as a nation, need to atone? Is there anyone I have not recognized as equal to myself? What will help? I am an American. What will comfort so many other Americans, so suddenly bereaved? And how shall we arrange for safety, anywhere? I am an American.

70. New York State Writers Institute - June Jordan Go to New York State Writers Institute june jordan Poet, Essayist and Critic, junejordan was a visiting guest at the NYS Writers Institute on April 27, 2000. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/jordan.html

J UNE J ORDAN Poet, Essayist and Critic The Writer PBS Series Channel 17 Sunday at 2:00 p.m. September 16, 2001 J une Jordan , the most published African American writer in history, is the author of more than twenty-five major works, including ten collections of poetry, five books of essays, two plays, a novel and eight children's books. Her most recent publication is Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (May 2000), a vivid and moving childhood memoir of the Harlem and Brooklyn neighborhoods where she lived. Toni Morrison praised the book as "an intensely perceptive narrative," and Ntozake Shange commented that June Jordan "has once again found a way to make the impossible brutality of living a song." Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1997 Haruko/Love Poems Naming Our Destiny Living Room: New Poems 1980-1984 (1985), and Things That I Do in the Dark (Beacon Press, 1981). Her essay collections include Affirmative Acts: Political Essays June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint Technical Difficulties (1992), and

71. June Jordan (b. 1936) june jordan (b. 1936). Contributing Editor Agnes Moreland Jackson.Classroom Issues and Strategies. Students of the 1960s and early http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jordan.html

June Jordan (b. 1936) Contributing Editor: Agnes Moreland Jackson Classroom Issues and Strategies Students of the 1960s and early 1970s (as well as today's college-age youth) thought about and acted on nonfamilial kinships, that is, relationships between individuals having agency ; groups, personhood in the community, space or turflocal/national/global; responsibilityprivate and corporate; power/powerlessness; most of the "-isms" and phobias of historical and contemporary societies worldwide. These are some of the recurring subjects in Jordan's three poems included in The Heath Anthology Moreover, hearing Jordan is crucial to appreciating and understanding the power of her poetry. Beyond urging my students to read all poetry aloud (and we read aloud in class), I stress the rich orality of poetic expression by many African-Americans (from Dunbar to Hughes and Brown , from Hayden and Walker and Brooks to Evans and Sanchez and Cortez, as well as Lorde Knight Reed Clifton , and Harper ), among whom Jordan is outstanding for the "being-spoken-now" qualities of her poems. Two of the "talking passages" (describing aptly the entire 114 lines) in "Poem about My Rights" are its opening and lines 45 to 49. Reading this poem aloud in a class need not be difficult in any college for at least two reasons: its personal, intimate, talking-directly-to-you quality and the generally acknowledged present-day awareness of the twenty-five percent probability that rape might become real to any woman in the U.S. Single voices (including those of male students) reading the poem in sequence diminish possible embarrassment over the sustained and repeated use of the words "rape," "penetrate," and "ejaculate" as reality and as metaphor. The poem's insistence upon the

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73. Poetry: June Jordan BIOGRAPHY june jordan (b. 1936) was born in Harlem, New York, and attendedBarnard College (19531955) and the University of Chicago (1955-1956). http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/jordan.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); June Jordan (b. 1936) LINKS The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits: June Jordan http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/jjordan.htm This site contains a brief biography of Jordan, the texts of several of her poems, and a list of links. Voices from the Gaps: June Jordan http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/JuneJordan.html The Voices from the Gaps site provides a biography of Jordan, criticism of her work, a selected primary and secondary bibliography, and links to related sites. Voices from the Gaps in an instructional site from the University of Minnesota that focuses on the lives and works of North American women writers of color. June Jordan’s Page at the University of California–Berkeley http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~africam/jordan.html

74. 06.17.2002 - "Poet Of The People" June Jordan, A UC Berkeley Professor Of Africa Poet of the People june jordan, a UC Berkeley professor of African Americanstudies, dies at 65 17 june 2002. By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/06/17_jordan.html

UC Berkeley NEWS SEARCH NEWS HOME ARCHIVES EXTRAS MEDIA RELATIONS Press Releases Image Downloads Contacts "Poet of the People" June Jordan, a UC Berkeley professor of African American studies, dies at 65 17 June 2002 By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations Berkeley - At the University of California, Berkeley, the colleagues, students and friends of June Jordan, an award-winning poet, professor and activist, are mourning her loss. After battling cancer since the 1970s, Jordan died Friday at age 65. "Poet of the People" June Jordan Jane Scherr photo A campus memorial service is tentatively scheduled for September, said Charles Henry, professor and chair of UC Berkeley's African American Studies. There will be no formal funeral service, he said. Jordan became one of the most published African American writers, known for reviving black English as a medium of black literature. She published dozens of books of poetry, librettos and operas, children's books, a screenplay, and gutsy and eloquent columns about political and personal causes in "The Progressive" and other publications.

75. June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow: Poems To Rebuild Kosovo New poems by june jordan and Ruth Yarrow bring the war home to all of us This is poetry's job. june jordan, Ruth Yarrow. Poems to Rebuild Kosovo. http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa081799.htm

zfp=-1 About Homework Help Poetry Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Poetry with Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS Poetry Currents -from our correspondents About Poetry Museletters Poets in the News ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow Poems to Rebuild Kosovo Think of it as the Third World War: bitter explosion of Balkan feud, ethnic cleansing as political stance, international interloping and global realignment played out on human face (Russian troops holding down the Pristina airport, China only now negotiating with the US). Only, it’s your backyard, your parents’ face, your children’s graves. The war in Kosovo is daily life. New poems by June Jordan and Ruth Yarrow bring the war home to all of us here in 1999. This is poetry’s job. If you are moved, you may write a poem. You may write your Congressional reps. About Poetry urges you to write the American Friends Service Committee (address at bottom) and engage with this part of the war activate, rebuild, renew. Bob Holman As an introduction to the poems, here is Mike Yarrow:

76. June Jordan, Kenneth Koch, Philip Whalen: The Deaths Of Spring Memories, links books for june jordan, Kenneth Koch, Philip Whalen june jordan,Kenneth Koch, Philip Whalen The Deaths of Spring. Related Articles. http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa101602a.htm

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77. Kelly Writers House Fellows - June Jordan The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program june jordan. April 23-24,2001. june jordan reading - A digital recording of the April 23 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~whfellow/jordan.html

The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - June Jordan April 23-24, 2001 June Jordan reading - A digital recording of the April 23, 2001 event where Jordan read from her memoir Soldier and from her poetry, including new, uncollected work. Excerpts of her reading are available: "Focus in Real Time" and "Poem about My Rights" June Jordan interview/conversation - A recording of the April 24, 2001 audiocast of the interview and conversation with June Jordan, moderated by Al Filreis , Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. This visit was co-sponsored by Art Sanctuary. Also available: More photographs of June Jordan's visit. Writers House Fellows Program Writers House Webcast Archive

78. June Jordan Reads At The Writers House Poet and novelist june jordan read from a variety of her works. This was junejordan eminent poet, novelist, essayist and political activist. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/news/jjordan.html

This Month's Calendar Special Events Publications from The Daily Pennsylvanian Eminent Writer Fills the House Poet and novelist June Jordan read from a variety of her works. By Dina Ackerman May 2, 2001 It was only one day after Penn's annual party weekend and more than 100 people were sitting quietly, listening to poetry. This was no ordinary poetry reading. This was June Jordan eminent poet, novelist, essayist and political activist. Last Monday, the Kelly Writers House overflowed with faculty, students and members of the community to hear Jordan read old, new and soon-to-be-published poems as well as an excerpt from her memoir, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood. "It is so exciting, as a woman, as a student of literature, as a young person who is committed to social justice, to hear the voice of June Jordan," said Dari Yudkoff, a College junior and member of the Writers House Fellows course, which brought Jordan to Penn in conjunction with the Writers House Fellows program. "Literature and Social Change" was the theme of this year's Writers House Fellows program, for which Jordan was the final visitor. Earlier this semester, playwright Tony Kushner and playwright and author David Sedaris spoke on campus. Jordan captivated the standing room-only crowd for about an hour and a half as she vacillated between humor and horror, discussing topics ranging from the idiocy of computers and the fickleness of relationships to ethnic cleansing, racism and rape.

79. Remembering June Jordan Remembering june jordan The role of the American writer in 1981. As a memberof the program committee, I had recommended june jordan as a speaker. http://www.yourunionnews.com/junejordan.htm

An independent voice for change in the National Writers Union News Opinion Feedback Home June Jordan, (photo from poets.org) Remembering June Jordan: The role of the American writer in 1981 By E. Ethelbert Miller The American Writers Congress, held in New York in October, 1981, was the birthplace of our National Writers Union. As a member of the program committee, I had recommended June Jordan as a speaker. Poet, essayist, feminist, African-American and bisexual, June was, most of all, a person of integrity: hers was a unique, progressive voice. This summer, June died after a long battle with cancer. What separated June Jordan from other American writers was her passion and politics. Even among African-American writers, June's politics stood out. She was progressive and maybe it's not a coincidence that she wrote a column for The Progressive In October 1981, when June Jordan addressed the American Writers Congress, her opening remarks were not about poetry or publishing. They were about human life and the policies of New York Mayor Ed Koch. Just before the Congress, three people had died in unheated buildings owned by the city of New York.

80. Guardian Unlimited Books | Obituaries | June Jordan june jordan One of the most widely published AfricanAmerican writers, she provideda constant challenge to oppression Margaret Busby Thursday june 20, 2002 http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,740747,00.html

Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... Help Search this site Tools Text-only version Send it to a friend Read it later See saved stories In this section Obituary: Victor Alba Obituary: Robin Hallett Obituary: Maurice Blanchot Obituary: Christopher Hill ... Obituary: Edward Young June Jordan One of the most widely published African-American writers, she provided a constant challenge to oppression Margaret Busby Thursday June 20, 2002 The Guardian June Jordan, who has died aged 65, after suffering from breast cancer for several years, defied all pigeonholes. Poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, academic, cultural and political activist - she was all these things, by turn and simultaneously, but above all, she was an inspirational teacher, through words and actions, and a supremely principled person. Among African-American writers, she was undoubtedly one of the most widely published, the author of well over two dozen books of non-fiction, poetry, fiction, drama and children's writing. She emerged onto the political and literary scene in the late 1960s, when the movements demanding attention were for civil rights and women's liberation, and anti-war.

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