Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis with Kay Ulanday Barrett
Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
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Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Bill Zavatsky
By Bill Zavatsky
Posted Mar 28, 2019
Writer and educator Bill Zavatsky discusses June Jordan’s “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” and the legacy of both poets.
Writing & Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Taiyo Na
By Taiyo Na
Posted Mar 15, 2019
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan with Suzanne Gardinier
By Suzanne Gardinier
Posted Jan 8, 2019
Suzanne Gardinier discusses how June Jordan’s radical teaching and writing resisted divisions, formed alliances, and spoke to urgent political realities of the time.
Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from June Jordan
By Donna Masini
Posted Nov 29, 2018
Inspired by June Jordan, Donna Masini calls for the integration of writing with activism, personal life, and the “moral imagination.”