This Unruly Witness

Foreword: A Definition of Love by Alexis Pauline Gumbs PART ONE: 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 Archive of a Bruise, Arc of the Blues, Alexis De Veaux June Jordan and the Renaissance of Poetry as a Performing Art, Zack Rogow Urban Ghazal, Zack Rogow “A Report from the Bahamas”: And What of Identity Politics? Margo Okazawa-Rey Elegy for a Soldier, Marilyn Hacker Letter to My Friend, for June Jordan, Kathy Engel Puño en Alto! Libro Abierto! / Fists, Up! Books, Open!: On Anti-Intellectualism, Literacy Brigades, and Revolutionary Consciousness, Maria Poblet The Set Up, Mahogany L. Browne The Waters Are Wide: We Can Cross Over, Becky Thompson Call and Response, Gwendolen Hardwick PART TWO: WE ARE LUCKY SHE DARED Some of Us Did Not Die, Remembering June Jordan, E. Ethelbert Miller Bit by Bit, Dima Hilal Elphinstone, Bombay 1993 “The Bombing of Baghdad”: Building Connections in a Time of War, Shanti Bright Brien Maestra, Xochiquetzal Candelaria Dear June, Ruth Forman not past, Ariel Luckey A Blueprint for June’s Love, Sheila Menenzes Choosing a Praxis of Liberation, Kate Holbrook On the Spirit of June Jordan: The Ultimate Capacities of a School’s Lifeforce, Jessica Wei Huang Stay All the Way with Reggie and Ranya, Reid Gómez 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 PART THREE: THE AWESOME, DIFFICULT WORK OF LOVE A Place of Rage: A Conversation, Angela Y. Davis, Pratibha Parmar, and Leigh Raiford So Long Our Sisters Love Us Strongly, Rachel Eliza Griffiths 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: When All Things Are Dear 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, Dominique C. Hill Become a Menace, Afaa M. Weaver 尉雅風 Afterword by Imani Perry Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography