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2019: Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Taiyo Na, Sofía Snow & Bill Zavatsky
June Jordan
Poets and educators explore June Jordan’s essay “For the Sake of a People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” in the second annual panel celebrating Jordan’s work.
Presented as part of What is It, Then, Between Us? Poetry & Democracy, the third annual initiative of the Poetry Coalition, a national poetry coalition working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.