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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: JUNE JORDANveteranfeminists2023-02-10T15:50:50-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

June Jordan

July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black.”– 1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University

 Award-winning poet, professor, political activist. African American literature, LGBT literature. Fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Attended Barnard College and the University of Chicago. Author of more than twenty-five major works of poetry, fiction and essays, children’s books; one of the most published African American writers. Began teaching at City College of New York, 1967. Taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College and Connecticut College, 1968-1978. Director of The Poetry Center at SUNY, Stony Brook and English professor, 1978-1989. Full professor of English, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-2002. Founded “Poetry for the People” program, University of California, Berkeley, 1991. National LGBTQ Wall of Honor, Stonewall National Monument, 2019.

More About June:

  • Obituary
  • June Jordan website
  • June Jordan Poetry Foundation
  • June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
  • The Double Struggles of June Jordan, Poet and Social Activist 
  • Select interviews
    • June Jordan at the NYS Writers Institute in 2000
    •  “The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan,” Radcliffe Institute, In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger and the 75th anniversary of the Library’s founding, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists exploring the many facets of Jordan’s work. March 7, 2018
    • June Jordan by Josh Kuhn, October 1995
    • June Jordan at the Brockport Writers Forum, September 25, 1981
    • Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr, Guests: Harriet F. Pilpel, June Jordan, Jonathan Kaufman, Ned Potter, Lino Lipinsky, August 26, 1976
  • Wikipedia page

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