This Unruly Witness

June Jordan's Legacy

Lauren Muller, Becky Thompson, Dominique C. Hill , Durell M. Callier

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Haymarket Books
18 February 2026

Anthologies (non-poetry); Curriculum planning & development; Political ideologies; Educational: Art & design

A collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist.

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 a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, an afterword from Imani Perry, 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, andmany other people touched by Jordan's work.

Foreword by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Edited by: Lauren Muller, Becky Thompson, Dominique C. Hill, Durell M. Callier
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888904985
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 18 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Becky Thompsonis a scholar, poet, activist, and author of poetry collectionsTo Speak in SaltandZero Is the Whole I Fall into at Night. Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women. , an assistant professor of women's studies at Colgate University, is a qualitative researcher and body archivist studying Black girlhood and Black queer resistance. is an artist-scholar who documents the lived experiences of Black youth and their communities, examining how Black art and creative practices subvert and reimagine Black life in the face of violence.

Reviews for This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy

“Through poignant, funny, and searing reflections by so many who walked alongside Jordan, this collection offers readers of Jordan's work a living portrait of a great American poet.” —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Something About Living “If you do not know this poet, no matter how many material possessions you amass—you are impoverished.” —Regie Gibson, Massachusetts Poet Laureate “For June, the struggle ultimately was about and in the service of love. The ways this book allows both to coexist is impressive.” —Cornelius Eady, author of Brutal Imagination