15 results for '"June Jordan"'

""Directed by Desire" . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry."--"Booklist"Now in paperback, "Directed by Desire" is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry...

This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of...

Published by Northeastern University Press, Boston. 201 pages. An examination of issues of American individuality, ethics, and freedom through Michel Foucault's theory of power...critical readings of...

A collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist. This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a...

Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.In...

An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledgeJoshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic...

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As...

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York...

The beloved coming-of-age novel about a Brooklyn girlhood that heralded a renaissance in Black women’s literature more than sixty years ago, with a new foreword by Nicole Dennis-Benn, the bestselling...

In this gorgeous hardcover anthology—the first devoted exclusively to blues poems—a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form of the blues and offer testimony to its lasting power. Edited by...

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers...

FRIENDSHIP IS THE GREAT LOVE STORY WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. Friendship is good for your health. Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Still, we are...

Finalist, 2025 Frances Fuller Victor Award in General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards Honorable Mention, 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association One Sunday afternoon in...

WINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationReveals the...