This Unruly Witness
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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 community that can sustain us, who know that "we are the ones we have been waiting for." Celebrating the life and legacy of the poet activist June Jordan, this collection illuminates why we need Jordan more than ever.
Featuring a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, an afterword from Imani Perry, essays, poems, letters, and interviews from internationally acclaimed poets and thinkers such as Angela Davis, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa M. Weaver, E. Ethelbert Miller, and many other people touched by Jordan's work.
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Becky Thompson is a scholar, poet, activist, and author of poetry collections To Speak in Salt and Zero Is the Whole I Fall into at Night.
Content
Foreword: A Definition of Love by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
PART ONE: POET ON THE WORLD STAGE
In Response to "The Bombing of Baghdad" by June Jordan, Naomi Shihab Nye
Black Alive and Looking Straight at You: The Legacy of June Jordan, Elizabeth Alexander
It Began as a Romance: The Collaboration of June Jordan and Adrienne B. Torf, Adrienne B. Torf
Archive of a Bruise, Arc of the Blues, Alexis De Veaux
June Jordan and the Renaissance of Poetry as a Performing Art, Zack Rogow
Urban Ghazal, Zack Rogow
"A Report from the Bahamas": And What of Identity Politics? Margo Okazawa-Rey
Elegy for a Soldier, Marilyn Hacker
Letter to My Friend, for June Jordan, Kathy Engel
Puño en Alto! Libro Abierto! / Fists, Up! Books, Open!: On Anti-Intellectualism, Literacy Brigades, and Revolutionary Consciousness, Maria Poblet
The Set Up, Mahogany L. Browne
The Waters Are Wide: We Can Cross Over, Becky Thompson
Call and Response, Gwendolen Hardwick
PART TWO: WE ARE LUCKY SHE DARED
Some of Us Did Not Die, Remembering June Jordan, E. Ethelbert Miller
Bit by Bit, Dima Hilal
Elphinstone, Bombay 1993
"The Bombing of Baghdad": Building Connections in a Time of War, Shanti Bright Brien
Maestra, Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Dear June, Ruth Forman
not past, Ariel Luckey
A Blueprint for June's Love, Sheila Menenzes
Choosing a Praxis of Liberation, Kate Holbrook
On the Spirit of June Jordan: The Ultimate Capacities of a School's Lifeforce, Jessica Wei Huang
Stay All the Way with Reggie and Ranya, Reid Gómez
I choose/anything/anyone/I may lose: June Jordan, Faith, and Holy Risk, Dani Gabriel
Between the Knuckles of My Own Two Hands: Learning from June Jordan, Sriram Shamasunder
PART THREE: THE AWESOME, DIFFICULT WORK OF LOVE
A Place of Rage: A Conversation, Angela Y. Davis, Pratibha Parmar, and Leigh Raiford
So Long Our Sisters Love Us Strongly, Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In Response to "Apologies to All the People in Lebanon," adrienne maree brown
After June Jordan, A Poem About Police Violence, Jehan Bseiso
For the Sake of a People's Poetry: June Jordan and Walt Whitman, Donna Masini
Truth-Telling as an Emancipatory Act: What June Jordan Taught Me About Liberation, Elizabeth Riva Meyer
Finding "Living Room" with My Drone, Zeina Azzam
Love Like a Mango, Obvious, Will Horter
June Jordan: When All Things Are Dear Disappear, Wesley Brown
Something Like a Sonnet: Reading June Jordan, Finding My Voice, and Becoming an Oral Historian, Kelly Elaine Navies
Choosing My Mind Between the Mosquitos and the Moon, Ruth Nicole Brown
A Note on Praxis and Black Girls, Dominique C. Hill
Become a Menace, Afaa M. Weaver ¿¿¿
Afterword by Imani Perry
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