June Jordan

June Jordan
Harlem (mul) , Silimin gɔli July 9, 1936
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
African Americans (en)
Kpibu shee	Berkeley, Silimin gɔli June 14, 2002
Ŋ-ŋɔ kum	natural causes (en)  (biɛha dɔro)
Paɣa/yidana	Michel Meyer (mul)
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	Barnard College (mul) Midwood High School (en) Northfield Mount Hermon School (en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	daankpɛɣulana, essayist (en) , novelist (en) , sasabira, LGBTQ rights activist (en) , playwright (en) ni librettist (en)
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	University of California, Berkeley (mul) City College of New York (en) Stony Brook University (en) Yale University (mul) Sarah Lawrence College (en)
Magnum opus	I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view Lambda Literary Award
junejordan.com

June Millicent Jordan (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli July dabaa awɔi dali yuuni 1936 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli June biɛɣ'pinaanahi dali yuuni 2002) daa nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda, karimba n-ti pahi Sabira. O sabbu nyɛla din tooi jɛndiri paɣa bee doo, niriba biɛhigu shɛhi taɣibu n-ti pahi zani n-ti.

Bibliography

• Who Look at Me, Crowell, 1969, OCLC 22828
• Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry (editor), Doubleday, 1970, OCLC 492067711
• The Voice of the Children, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 (co-editor), OCLC 109494
• Some Changes, Dutton, 1971, OCLC 133482
• His Own Where. Feminist Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55861-658-5.
• Dry Victories, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972, ISBN 978-0-03-086023-2
• Fannie Lou Hamer, Crowell, 1972, ISBN 978-0-690-28893-3
• New Days: Poems of Exile and Return, Emerson Hall, 1974, ISBN 978-0-87829-055-0
• New Life, Crowell, 1975, ISBN 978-0-690-00211-9
• Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poems, 1954–1977, Random House, 1977, ISBN 978-0-394-40937-5
• Passion, Beacon Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-8070-3218-3
• Kimako's Story, Houghton Mifflin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-395-31604-7
• Civil Wars, Beacon Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-8070-3232-9; Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-81404-9.
• Living Room: New Poems, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-938410-26-3
• On Call: Political Essays, South End Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-89608-268-7
• Lyrical Campaigns: Selected Poems, Virago, 1989, ISBN 978-1-85381-042-8
• Moving Towards Home, Virago, 1989, ISBN 978-1-85381-043-5
• Naming Our Destiny, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-938410-84-3
• Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union, Pantheon Books, 1992, ISBN 978-0-679-40625-9
• Technical Difficulties: New Political Essays
• Haruko: Love Poems, High Risk Books, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85242-323-0
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, Scribner, 1995
• June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Taylor & Francis. 1995. ISBN 978-0-415-91168-9.
• Kissing God Goodbye, Anchor Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-385-49032-0
• Affirmative Acts: Political Essays, Anchor Books, 1998, ISBN 9780385492256
• Soldier: A Poet's Childhood. Basic Civitas Books. 2001. ISBN 978-0-465-03682-0.
• Some of Us Did Not Die. Basic Civitas Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-465-03693-6.
• Soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry. Random House Digital, Inc. 2004. ISBN 978-0-7679-1846-6. (editor, reprint)
• Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) (edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles), ISBN 978-1-55659-228-7

External links

• June Jordan official website
• June Jordan profile at the Poetry Foundation.
• June Jordan poems at the Academy of American Poets.
• June Jordan Papers, 1936-2002. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• Audio collection of June Jordan, 1970-2000. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• Jordan, June, 1936-2002. Videotape collection of June Jordan, 1976–2002. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
• June Jordan: Works at Open Library.
• Audio Interview with Jordan, Bay Window.
• June Jordan at The Writer PBS Series, New York Writers Institute.
• June Jordan obituary, The Guardian (UK) by Margaret Busby, June 20, 2002.
• Columbia University Obituary
• Faith Cheltnam, "Bisexuals Worthy of Celebration During Black History Month: June Jordan", Huffington Post (USA), February 24, 2013.