June Jordan (1936-2002)
On the Web: Articles
Obituary notice. Margaret Busby, Guardian (6/20/02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Jordan, June. "Requiem for the champ," Progessive (4/92). Mike Tyson.
__________. “New year poem,” Progressive (2/18/01):17.
__________. “The invisible people: an unsolicited report on Black rage,” Progressive (3/01):24, & comments (5/01):6.
__________. "Do you do well to be angry?" Progressive (11/01).
Rothschild, Matthew. "June Jordan, 1936-2002," Progressive (8/02).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books:
Jordan, June. Civil Wars [1981] (NY, 1995).
__________. Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (London, 1989).
__________. Technical Difficulties (1994).
__________. Poetry for the People: A Blueprint for the Revolution (1995).
__________. Affirmative Acts: Political Essays (NY: Anchor, 1998). Includes several published in The Progressive in early 90s.
__________. Soldier: A Poet's
Childhood (NY, 2000).
In the Library: Fiction
Jordan, June. His Own Where
(NY, 1971).
In the Library: Poetry
__________. Things That I Do in the Dark
__________. Passion: New Poems (1980).
__________. Living Room (1985).
__________. Naming Our Destiny: New & Selected Poems (1989)
__________. Haruko/Love Poems (1994).
__________. I Was Looking At the Ceiling & Then I Saw the Sky (opera libretto; 1995)
__________. Poetry for the People: Finding A Voice Through Verse (1996)
__________. Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1990-1997(NY, 1997).
In the Library: Children's Books
__________. Fanny Lou Hamer (NY, 1972).
__________. Dry Victories
__________. New Life: New Room
CD
& Audio:
"For Somebody to Start Singing," (1980) with Bernice Johnson
Reagon, 51m. From Watershed Tapes.