June Jordan

June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American writer and teacher. She was openly bisexual. Her career as a poet and activist embodied the ideals of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s, during which she came of age.

Works

• Who Look at Me
• Soulscript (editor)
• The Voice of the Children (co-editor)
• Some Changes
• His Own Where
• Dry Victories
• Fannie Lou Hamer
• New Days
• New Life
• Things That I Do in the Dark
• Passion
• Kimako's Story
• Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poems, 1954-1977
• Civil Wars
• Living Room
• On Call
• Lyrical Campaigns
• Moving Towards Home
• Naming Our Destiny
• Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union
• Technical Difficulties: New Political Essays
• Haruko Love Poems
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
• June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint
• Civil Wars (new edition)
• Kissing God Goodbye
• Affirmative Acts
• Soldier
• Some of Us Did Not Die
• Soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry (editor, reprint)
• Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan (due out in Fall, 2005)