This Unruly Witness June Jordan's Legacy
Edited by Durell M. Callier, Dominique C. Hill, Lauren Muller, and Becky Thompson
Foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Afterword by Imani Perry
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 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 including Ariel Luckey’s poem not past.