This unruly witness: June Jordan's legacy

Foreword : a definition of love / Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Poet on the world stage. In response to "The Bombing of Baghdad" by June Jordan / Naomi Shihab Nye

Black alive and looking straight at you : the legacy of June Jordan / Elizabeth Alexander

It began as a romance : the collaboration of June Jordan and Adrienne B. Torf / Adrienne B. Torf

How she sang the blues / Alexis De Veaux

June Jordan and the renaissance of poetry as a performing art urban ghazal / Zack Rogow

"A report from the Bahamas" : and what of identity politics? / Margo Okazawa-Rey

Elegy for a soldier / Marilyn Hacker

Letters to my friend, for June Jordan / Kathy Engel

¡Pu?o en Alto! ¡Libro Abierto! / Fists up! Books open! : on anti-intellectualism, literacy brigades, and revolutionary consciousness / Mar?a Poblet

The setup / Mahogany L. Browne

The waters are wide : we can cross over / Becky Thompson

Call and response / Gwendolen Hardwick

We are lucky she dared. "Some of us did not die" : remembering June Jordan after all is said and done / E. Ethelbert Miller

Bit by bit america / Dima Hilal

Elphistone, Bombay, 1993 / Rajasvini Bhansali

"The Bombing of Baghdad" : building connections in a time of war

Maestra / Xochiquetsal candelaria

Dear June / Ruth Forman

A practice of freedom not past / Ariel Luckey

A blueprint for June's love / Sheila Menezes

Choosing a praxis of liberation / Kate Holbrook

On the spirit of June Jordan : the ultimate capacities of a school's lifeforce standing at the gates / Jessica Wei Huang

Stay all the way with Reggie and Ranya / Reid G?mez

"I choose / anything / anyone / I may lose" : June Jordan, faith, and holy risk / Dani Gabriel

Between the knuckles of my own two hands : learning from June Jordan / Sriram Shamasunder

The awesome, difficult work of love. A place of rage : a conversation / Angela Y. Davis, Pratibha Parmar, and Leigh Raiford

In response to "Apologies to All the People in Lebanon" / Adrienne Maree Brown

After June Jordan, a poem about police violence / Jehan Bseiso

For the sake of a people's poetry : June Jordan and Walt Whitman / Donna Masini

Truth-telling as an emancipatory act : what June Jordan taught me about liberation / Elizabeth Riva Meyer

Finding "Living Room" with my drone / Zeina Azzam

Love like a mango, obvious / Will Horter

June Jordan : what all things are dear that disappear / Wesley Brown

"Something Like a Sonnet" : reading June Jordan, finding my voice and becoming an oral historian / Kelly Elaine Navies

Choosing my mind between the mosquitos and the moon / Ruth Nicole Brown

A note on praxis and Black girls / Dominque C. HIll

Become a menace / Afaa M. Weaver

Afterword : June Jordan ; an eternal summer / Imani Perry.