Person Detail: June Jordan

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General Information:
Full Name: June Jordan
Biography: (1936-2002) Poet. June Jordan was born in Harlem, New York, and lived as a child in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, and attended Barnard College in Manhattan, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1936		New York County June Jordan was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, on July 9, 1936.
2002		(Unknown) County June Jordan died in Berkeley, California, in 2002.
1997		(Unknown) County Kissing God Goodbye (Pub: Anchor ISBN: 0385490321 / 978-0385490320) Poetry.
1969		(Unknown) County Who Look At Me (Pub: Thomas Y. Crowell Company ISBN: ) Children's book.
1971		(Unknown) County Some Changes (Pub: Dutton ISBN: 0525206655 / 978-0525206651) Poetry.
1980		(Unknown) County Passion: New Poems, 1977-1980 (Pub: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807032182 / 978-0807032183) Poetry.
1974		(Unknown) County New Day: Poems of Exile and Return (Pub: Emerson Hall Publishers ISBN: 0878290621 / 978-0878290628) Poetry.
1975		(Unknown) County I Love You Poetry.
1977		(Unknown) County The Things I Do in the Dark (Pub: Random House ISBN: 039440937X / 978-0394409375) Poetry
1985		(Unknown) County Living Room, New Poems: 1980-1984 (Pub: New York: Thunder's Mouth Press: Distributed by Persea Books ISBN: 093841027X / 978-0938410270) Poetry.
1989		(Unknown) County Naming Our Own Destiny: New and Selected Poems (Pub: Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN: 0938410830 / 978-0938410836) Poetry.
1981		(Unknown) County Civil Wars, Selected Essays: 1963-1980 (Pub: Boston: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807032328 / 978-0807032329) Collection of essays.
1985		(Unknown) County On Call: New Political Essays: 1981-1985 (Pub: South End Press ISBN: 0896082695 / 978-0896082694) Essays.
1989		(Unknown) County Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (Pub: London: Virago ISBN: 1853810436 / 978-1853810435) Essays.
1970		(Unknown) County The Voice of the Children (Pub: Holt, Rinehart and Winston ISBN: 0030851130 / 978-0030851131) Edited collection of children's poetry.
1972		(Unknown) County Dry Victories (Pub: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN: 0030860245 / 978-0030860249) Young people's poetry.
1972		(Unknown) County Fannie Lou Hamer (Pub: Thomas Y. Crowell Company ISBN: 0690288948 / 978-0690288940) Young people's poetry.
1975		(Unknown) County New Life: New Room (Pub: Thomas Y. Crowell Company ISBN: 0690002114 / 978-0690002119) Young people's poetry.
1981		(Unknown) County Kimako's Story (Pub: Houghton ISBN: ) Young people's poetry.
1971		(Unknown) County His Own Where (Pub: Thomas Y. Crowell Company ISBN: 0690381337 / 978-0690381337) Novel for young adults which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1971.
1971		(Unknown) County In the Spirit of Sojourner Truth Play.
1981		(Unknown) County For the Arrow that Flies by Day Play.
1966		New York County Ms. Jordan was an instructor at City College of the City University of New York from 1966 to 1968.
1969		Westchester County Ms. Jordan taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York, from 1969 - 1974.
1978		Suffolk County Ms. Jordan taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1978-1989 and was director of the poetry center and creative writing program from 1986-1989.
?		Kings County Ms. Jordan lived, as a child, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.