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June Jordan

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Born: July 08 1936

Died: 1313 06 20022002

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June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and activist.

Jordan received numerous honors and awards, including a 1969-70 Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a Yaddo Fellowship in 1979, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1982, and the Achievement Award for International Reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1984. Jordan also won the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award from 1995 to 1998 as well as the Ground Breakers-Dream Makers Award from The Woman's Foundation in 1994.

She was included in Who's Who in America from 1984 until her death. She received the Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship from UC Berkeley and the PEN Center USA West Freedom to Write Award .

June Jordan

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Born: July 08 1936

Died: 1313 06 20022002

Website: Go to Website

June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and activist.

Jordan received numerous honors and awards, including a 1969-70 Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a Yaddo Fellowship in 1979, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1982, and the Achievement Award for International Reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1984. Jordan also won the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award from 1995 to 1998 as well as the Ground Breakers-Dream Makers Award from The Woman's Foundation in 1994.

She was included in Who's Who in America from 1984 until her death. She received the Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship from UC Berkeley and the PEN Center USA West Freedom to Write Award .

Books from June Jordan

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

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Haruko: Love Poems

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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

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Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

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Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997

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His Own Where

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June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint

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The Essential June Jordan

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Civil Wars

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Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poetry

We're On: A June Jordan Reader

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Some Changes

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Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry

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Beyond Stolen Flames, Forbidden Fruit, and Telephone Booths: Our Own Myths, Our Own Futures

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The Voice of the Children

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Poema sobre mis derechos

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Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series VII

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Identity Politics in the Women's Movement

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Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

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USA-poesi: 700 dikter från 1010-1983

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