June Jordan authored several books of poetry and essays as well as plays, a libretto, a novel, a memoir, and children’s books. A recipient of a Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition, Jordan also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference of Black Writers and the PEN Center Freedom to Write Award; she was nominated for the National Book Award as well. At the University of California, Berkeley, she taught teachers to instruct poetry from a multicultural worldview. After her death from breast cancer in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Bosnia Bosnia, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009