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June Jordan (1936-2002)


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On the Web: Articles

Obituary notice. Margaret Busby, Guardian (6/20/02).

On the Web: Specialized Sites

June Jordan's site.

In the Library: Articles:

Jordan, June. "Requiem for the champ," Progessive (4/92). Mike Tyson.

__________. “New year poem,” Progressive (2/18/01):17.

__________. “The invisible people: an unsolicited report on Black rage,” Progressive (3/01):24, & comments (5/01):6.

__________. "Do you do well to be angry?" Progressive (11/01).

Rothschild, Matthew. "June Jordan, 1936-2002," Progressive (8/02).

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books:

Jordan, June. Civil Wars [1981] (NY, 1995).

__________. Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (London, 1989).

__________. Technical Difficulties (1994).

__________. Poetry for the People: A Blueprint for the Revolution (1995).

__________. Affirmative Acts: Political Essays (NY: Anchor, 1998). Includes several published in The Progressive in early 90s.

__________. Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (NY, 2000).

In the Library: Fiction

Jordan, June. His Own Where (NY, 1971).

In the Library: Poetry

Jordan, June. Who Look At Me (Dry Victories) (NY, 1972)

__________. Things That I Do in the Dark

__________. Passion: New Poems (1980).

__________. Living Room (1985).

__________. Naming Our Destiny: New & Selected Poems (1989)

__________. Haruko/Love Poems (1994).

__________. I Was Looking At the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky (opera libretto; 1995)

__________. Poetry for the People: Finding A Voice Through Verse (1996)

__________. Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1990-1997(NY, 1997).


In the Library: Children's Books

__________. Fanny Lou Hamer (NY, 1972).

__________. Dry Victories

__________. New Life: New Room

CD & Audio:

"For Somebody to Start Singing," (1980) with Bernice Johnson Reagon, 51m. From Watershed Tapes.

Film & Video:



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