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	June Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.
		Jordan' father Granville Ivanhoe Jordan was a postal clerk, and her mother, Mildred, a nurse.
		The June Jordan School for Equity, formerly Small School for Equity, in San Francisco was named after her after the founding group of students researched her among two other activists (Phillip Vera Cruz and Cesar Chavez).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/June_Jordan (397 words)

	Speaking Freely: An Evening with Remarkable Women -- June Jordan
		Jordan battles with her words to heal the cultural, political and economic wounds in our society.
		Jordan writes her poetry and essays with clear-sighted passion about controversial and critical issues that are currently at the center of American debate.
		Jordan's honors include a Rockefeller Foundation grant, the National Association of Black Journalists Award, and fellowships from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
	www.kqed.org /w/baywindow/speakingfreely/remarkable/june_jordan.html (479 words)

	The Poetry and Politics Of June Jordan
		June Jordan, a professor of African-American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, visited the Swarthmore College campus this week to read her work and to discuss Berkeley's "Poetry for the People" program that she has developed and directs.
		June: I think poetry in and of itself is an act of political activism because I think of poetry as the medium for telling the truth and I think that anybody telling the truth in our body politic right now is making a political statement.
		June: I would say how I imitate people who are powerful is that I try to have as much energy as anybody I know and I try to work all the time because I figure the big guys, they never quit.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/phoenix/1997/1997-12-05/19.html (2165 words)

	June Jordan
		Jordan articulates complex and uncompromising points of view without alienating her readers in a swirl of jargon and tired political rhetoric.
		June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936 in Harlem, New York, to Granville and Mildred Jordan, Jamaican natives.
		At Northfield, Jordan "discovered her poetic voice." Jordan's home situation was a source of conflict and anguish because of her father's physical abuse and her mother's denial.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/j/jordan_june.htm (876 words)

	June Jordan (b. 1936)
		Jordan's rage at injustices and violations of personhood, as well as her compassion and empathy, are large and constant, as can be recognized by even a quick reading of her poetry and essays.
		Jordan makes situational analogies and projections that meld all aspects of her being into one seamless personal: family; politics--local, national, worldwide, as well as racial and sexual; geography--general space, particular places, personified places, urban and rural spaces; history; esthetics; economics; her body and the bodies of others; sexism, racism, classism, ageism.
		As is true for her contemporaries Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, sexuality is a crucial attribute of June Jordan's identity and her premise for self-expression and interaction with others.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jordan.html (1738 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| June Jordan
		She was born to West Indian parents, Mildred and Granville Jordan, in Harlem, and the family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn when she was five.
		While her parents were grateful to America for enabling them to escape poverty in Jamaica, as she describes in her 1986 essay For My American Family, there were many contradictions to be dealt with in the experience of being raised by fl immigrants with ambitions for their offspring that far exceeded the urban ghetto.
		For Toni Morrison, the sum of June Jordan's career was: "Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fuelled by flawless art." All that aside, she was a joy to know.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,740747,00.html (762 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		Jordan's war is domestic and civil, a pitched battle between the conflicting ambitions of her West Indian immigrant parents.
		Jordan is also a professor (at Berkeley), and her writing style reflects an academic's self-consciousness, a syntax put through a variety of gymnastic routines.
		But Jordan's love for poetry, for its particular focus of attention, is as ambivalent as her love for everything else in her childhood, and such flashes of insight seem almost uncomfortably hidden.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-08-25/books_vsbr.html (668 words)

	06.17.2002 - "Poet of the People" June Jordan, a UC Berkeley professor of African American studies, dies at 65
		Jordan came to UC Berkeley as a lecturer in 1986, remaining there until her death at her Berkeley home last Friday (June 14).
		Jordan awed listeners when she performed poetry readings on university campuses, before the United Nations and United States Congress, as well as at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Walker Arts Center, Guggenheim Museum, New York Public Library and on National Public Radio.
		For June, there was no distinction between personal and public -- the liberation of a nation was as joyful an event for her personally as was the liberation of a friend, whether from illness or grief.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/06/17_jordan.html (1079 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation- August 21, 2000
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Writer June Jordan's new book is "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood." It tells the story, from a child's point of view, of her first 12 years of life.
		JUNE JORDAN: Well, my father, as an immigrant, he came to this country with the highest possible hopes.
		JUNE JORDAN: "Like a growling beast, the rollaway mahogany doors rumble open and the light snaps on and a fist smashes into the side of my head.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/jordan_8-21.html (1359 words)

	The Sacramento Observer - Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NEW YORK - June Jordan, the prolific poet and essayist who was one of the most widely published African American authors in history, died of breast cancer on at her home in Berkeley, Calif. She was 65.
		In her work, Jordan advocated the usage of Black English in literature, believing it to be the language most reflective of the Black experience.
		By age 7, Jordan would be writing her own poems regularly, often hiring herself out and charging the children in her neighborhood a quarter for writing a poem about whatever they wished.
	www.sacobserver.com /soul/070202/june_jordan_dies.htm (768 words)

	village voice > news > June Jordan, 1936—2002 by Thulani Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		June was always clear-eyed and impassioned, tough-minded yet quick to enjoy the persistent absurdities of life with a soft nervous giggle and schoolgirl smile.
		Jordan told her readers how she abided the tragedies and rage of her parents' household in Bed-Stuy, and of the joyous Saturday nights in the early '50s cruising to the sounds of r&b through the streets of fl Brooklyn.
		Jordan wrote less often of pleasures than of people in crisis, but anyone who caught her shy and sly performance with Sweet Honey in the Rock can still hear the seductive percussion of "what I really want is a seven-day kiss." In her final book, she thanked those who gave the pleasures.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0226/davis.php (576 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - June Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		June Jordan interview/conversation - A recording of the April 24, 2001 audiocast of the interview and conversation with June Jordan, moderated by
		JUNE JORDAN is Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also directs the POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE program, which she founded.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/jordan.html (259 words)

	[New-Poetry] FW: June Jordan, 1936-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/1 5/BA29640.DTL June Jordan of Berkeley, an award-winning poet and UC Berkeley professor who became one of the country's most prominent contemporary fl women writers, died Friday.
		Jordan was endowed with a rare gift for using words with "elegance and precision." "She had an extraordinary sense of language, and a very embracing sense of language," Rich said.
		Jordan was forced to read and recite from Shakespeare's plays, the Bible, and the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Edgar Allan Poe -- all before she was 5 years old.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2002-June/007684.html (592 words)

	June Jordan reads at the Writers House
		This was June Jordan -- eminent poet, novelist, essayist and political activist.
		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.
		Jordan is an African-American Studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also directs the Poetry for the People program -- an undergraduate course that introduces poetry to local high school students.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /wh/news/jjordan.html (467 words)

	June Jordan
		June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936 in Harlem, New York.
		Jordan's work in the 1990s has continued to be a balance of poetry and essay.
		Jordan has received numerous honors and awards, including a 1969-1970 Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a Yado fellowship in 1979, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1982, and the Achievement Award for International Reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1984.
	www.csufresno.edu /peacegarden/nominees/jordan.htm (322 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - June Jordan
		Jordan acquaints readers with moments of American life threatened by social negligence and economic despair, demonstrating how all-too-frequent bouts of civil unrest bring out the worst and weakest sides of the American spirit.
		Jordan serves on the board of directors for the Center for Constitutional Rights and is currently Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
		June Jordan was a visiting guest at the NYS Writers Institute on April 27, 2000.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/jordan.html (759 words)

	June Jordan Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The effect of reading June Jordan's work is that it makes a reader less capable of passing by, less susceptible to coercion.
		June Jordan has re-vitalized the task of the poet.
		In an earlier book Jordan writes "at some point you have to trust somebody else." Her work is concerned with survival, with trust, between two people as well as between communities -- and the fact that her ongoing explorations have culminated, for now, in this passionate selection -- is hopeful and powerful.
	www.diacenter.org /prg/poetry/96_97/intrjordan.html (315 words)

	In Memory of June Jordan: Like June...
		The author of 28 books of poetry, fiction, and social criticism, Jordan was one of the most prolific intellectuals of her generation.
		June Jordan was committed to exposing herself—her passions, convictions, and fears—in her words, which she willfully gave to the world with the libretto I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, and books such as Civil Wars, Selected Essays 1963-1980 (1996), and most recently her memoir, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (1999).
		Jordan was of course right, when she suggested that "some of us did not die." The essay was written weeks after the 9-11 attacks, as Jordan struggled with the implications of the attacks and American response to them.
	www.seeingblack.com /x071202/june_jordan.shtml (934 words)

	June Jordan
		But for poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan, who came of age as a woman and a writer in a moment when the once-powerless moved mountains, the merger of public and private was more than fashion.
		Jordan, who died Friday at her home in Berkeley after a decade-long battle with breast cancer, spent her life stitching together the personal and political so the seams didn't show.
		Jordan's early life provided a textured back-story for her work, tough years that would become first a window, then a prism.
	www.camdennewjersey.org /june_jordan.htm (2132 words)

	Online NewsHour: Michael Jordan -- June 15, 1998
		Jordan's father was killed by armed robbers in North Carolina.
		And Jordan was caught up in the controversy caused by allegations that some Nike sports shoes made in Asia were manufactured in sweatshop conditions.
		MICHAEL JORDAN: When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense of to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game of basketball.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/jan-june98/jordan_6-15a.html (613 words)

	RW ONLINE: June Jordan: A Poet for the People
		June Jordan was a compassionate, angry, dedicated poet who inspired thousands of students and readers to use poetry as a weapon and to speak about, in her words, "unspeakable events"--the suffering of the people of the world and the indictment of those who caused it.
		June explained that the goal of Poetry for the People was to "make audible the inaudible and visible the invisible." She said, "Poetry has been falsely viewed as a province for privileged folks and for the extremely gifted.
		Jordan was the author or editor of 28 books--poetry, essays, novels, and the libretto for an opera.
	rwor.org /a/v24/1151-1160/1160/jordan.htm (838 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Jordan, June
		In 1965, Jordan's marriage ended in divorce and Jordan faced the trials of being a single, working mother and forming her identity.
		Jordan is best known for her poetry, which has been noted for its range of emotions.
		June Jordan died of breast cancer on June 14, 2002.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/jordan_june.html (1199 words)

	"Poetry is a Political Act": An Interview with June Jordan \| ColorLines \| Winter 1999
		June Jordan’s career as a poet, writer, teacher, and activist started in the early 1960s and spans the globe.
		In 1998, June Jordan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black Writers’; Conference; completed Affirmative Acts, a new collection of political essays; and collaborated on a CD recording of I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky, an opera for which she wrote the lyrics and the libretto.
		Jordan was born in New York City of Jamaican immigrant parents.
	www.arc.org /C_Lines/CLArchive/story1_3_05.html (1651 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Jordan, June
		In both her poetry and her essays, June Jordan called for the rejection of stereotypical views of bisexuality, and she associated sexual independence with political commitment.
		This dual emphasis on personal and communal autonomy, coupled with the belief that her own self-determination entails recognizing and affirming the interconnections between herself and apparently dissimilar peoples, gives Jordan's work an aggressive optimism and a diversity that grow increasingly complex in her later writings.
		Jordan enacted her bisexual politics in "A Short Note to My Very Critical Friends and Well-Beloved Comrades," "Meta-Rhetoric," "Poem for Buddy," and other poems in Naming Our Destiny, where she rejected restrictive labels and exclusionary political positions based on sexuality, color, class, or nationality.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/jordan_j.html (677 words)

	June Jordan
		June Jordan, born July 1936, died of cancer on June 14, 2002.
		Writing on Jordan and on her collection Haruko/Love Poems, Adrienne Rich affirms that this “visionary of human solidarity” is “one of the most musically and lyrically gifted poets of the late twentieth century.
		June Jordan’s self-portrait is perhaps best captured in these last lines of her moving portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer:
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /senate/inmemoriam/JuneJordan.htm (1002 words)

	Book Review: Some Of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays, by June Jordan
		Jordan gave everything she had to her writing, right up to the point when her body finally succumbed to the ravages of breast cancer.
		But Jordan, who was beaten by her father as a child and who later lost her mother to suicide, had the seemingly endless capacity to understand the suffering of people of all backgrounds.
		A self-declared radical for most of her adult life, Jordan never stopped agitating and writing on behalf of those who, in one way or another, had known what it meant to live on the margins of society.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Dec2002/talvi1202.htm (814 words)

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