I lived from 1936-2002. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
June Jordan was born in New York City in 1936. Her books of poetry include Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1997 (Anchor Books, 1997), Haruko/Love Poems (1994), Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems (1989), Living Room (1985), Passion (1980), and Things That I Do in the Dark (1977). She is also the author of children's books, plays, a novel, and Poetry for the People: A Blueprint for the Revolution (1995), a guide to writing, teaching and publishing poetry. Jordan has received 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. She taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she founded Poetry for the People. June Jordan died of breast cancer on June 14, 2002, in Berkeley, California.
Popular poetry
- An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:
We didn't always need affirmative action147 lines - Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land39 lines - Because it was raining outside the palace
Because there was no rain in her vicinity28 lines - well I wanted to braid my hair
bathe and bedeck my94 lines
