June Jordan: Her Life and LettersJune Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives. During her life, she became one of the most prolific, important, and influential African American writers of her time. Before her death from breast cancer in 2002, Jordan published more than 27 books, including Some of Us Did Not Die, Solider: A Poet's Childhood, Poetry for the People: Finding a Voice through Verse, Haruko Love Poems, and Naming Our Destiny. Her work Civil Wars, a collection of letters and essays, addressed such topics as violence, homosexuality, race, and black feminism. Working in many genres and touching on many themes and issues, Jordan was a powerful force in American literature. This biography reveals the woman, the writer, the poet, the activist, the leader, and the educator in all her complexity. |
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... Teachers & Writers Collaborative led to her first uni- versity teaching appointment , and as with the poet's previous teaching experi- ence , Herb Kohl was behind the initiation . In the fall of 1967 , she was hired to teach English and ...
... teaching . Writer George Orwell's " The Politics of the English Language " ( 1946 ) and architect W. R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ( 1969 ) were significant texts in Jordan's contemplations about education ...
... teaching position to her founding of the P4P collective - is related , in many ways , to such programs as the Teachers & Writers Collaborative ( New York City ) and the Writers - in - the Schools program ( Houston , Texas ) . Also , one ...
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A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |