June Jordan

AW made several new writer friends during her Mississippi years. Both Giovanni and Jordan visited her. At the end of this time she again reconnected with Diana Young .

This job cemented her friendship with Gloria Steinem . Later, after her divorce, AW and June Jordan started The Sisterhood, a group of black women, artists of one kind of another, who met regularly for...

AR 's colleagues at City College and within the SEEK program included Toni Cade Bambara , June Jordan , Larry Neal , and Robert Cumming . Her thinking and teaching also began to be influenced...

AR writes here on June Jordan , Audre Lorde , Muriel Rukeyser , and Wallace Stevens , among others. She reiterates her passionate belief in the links between poetic, personal, and social consciousness and activity:...

PW 's work proved both immediately and lastingly compelling for other black American writers, of whose tradition she was the progenitor. Jupiter Hammon , the first of his race to publish in America, addressed his...

The opening words of the title are quoted from June Jordan . The opening words of the text, more surprisingly, come from Dickens : It is the worst of times. It is the best of...

She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College . There her course on black women writers...

As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all...

It was dangerous for a mixed couple to live there, and they protected themselves with guns and a dog.June Jordan remarked on the danger surrounding them: It was like being clinically insane...