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notes on the peanut :: june jordan

supriyanna wrote 2 days ago: For the Poet David Henderson Hi there. My name is George Washington Carver. If you will bear with me … more →

Tags: Poems

another blog entry: job searching, feminist presses, MFA, and Beckett

zoeruiz wrote 1 month ago: Today I went into a local independent bookstore. I saw one of the employees and I said, Hey you! I d … more →

Tags: Beckett, bookstore, Feminism, mfa creative writing handbook, tom kealy, writing

a little about june jordan3 comments

zoeruiz wrote 1 month ago: I’m reading June Jordan’s “Some Of Us Did Not Die.” Who is June Jordan? I r … more →

Tags: writing, Bisexual, Sexuality, Gender

Thoughts On Community

Patricia wrote 1 month ago:  My desk is a cluttered mess of mismatched items—the leftovers—the things I do not know what to do w … more →

Tags: writing, Reading, Community, Moving

the eclipse of 1996 :: june jordan

supriyanna wrote 1 month ago: Everybody out of the house! Everybody up on the roof! Run to the top of the street! Pull back the br … more →

Tags: Poems

youth speak out

speekbird wrote 3 months ago: while i’m watching this, i’m remembering the amazing young people i had the privile … more →

Tags: Youth Empowerment, Discrimination, racism, Oppression!, Speak Out, social issues, summer youth dialogues, Dialogue, Dearborn

you can't take a political meeting to bed

thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: from A Couple of Questions by June Jordan I have someplace to go and candles to light and I live 3, … more →

Tags: Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, What's love got to do with it?

Winter Honey

thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: Winter Honey June Jordan Sugar come and sugar go Sugar dumb but sugar know ain’ nothin’ … more →

Tags: Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, Bees, What's love got to do with it?

or Different Ways of Tingling All Over

thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: Verse after Listening to Bartok Play Bartok a Second Time, or Different Ways of Tingling All Over Ju … more →

Tags: Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, instinctual groping, What's love got to do with it?

Imagine there’s no school bells—it’s easy if you try1 comment

teacherrevised wrote 4 months ago: By ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY I have a physiological reaction to the school bell, especially the electronic … more →

Tags: Classroom Reflections, Bell, Education, Education reform, teacher

Stephen Colbert hears the mermaids

thecompasspoint wrote 5 months ago: With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it’s good to have comedians at … more →

Tags: Poetry, obama, Elizabeth Alexander, Inauguration, brecht, Breughel, Auden, whitman, Derek Walcott

sunflower sonnet / number two :: june jordan

supriyanna wrote 6 months ago: Supposing we could just go on as two voracious in the days apart as well as when we side by side (th … more →

Tags: Poems

"Born Palestinian, Born Black"

r.m. wrote 6 months ago: From the Black Workers for Justice statement on the massacre in Gaza (December 31, 2008) “The … more →

Tags: war, militarization..., actions, struggles, united states, Palestine, Civil Rights, Israel, apartheid, Gaza, zionism

Open to Change, Receptive to Healing5 comments

girlwhocriedepiphany wrote 7 months ago: What if it’s true? What if, truly, “we are the ones we have been waiting for“? I … more →

Tags: spirituality, Poetry, Politics, Society, media, healing, HOPE, Reiki, election

poem for a young poet :: june jordan

supriyanna wrote 7 months ago: Most people search all of their lives for someplace to belong to as you said but I look instead into … more →

Tags: Poems

re-canonizing american women writers

marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان wrote 7 months ago: I meant to blog about this earlier, but given everything going on in the world it slipped my mind. … more →

Tags: Literature, Suheir Hammad, chrystos, american studies association, audre lorde, aunt lute, anthology of u.s. women writers, heath anthology of american literature, Naomi Shihab Nye

Obama sa Kaitaasan18 comments

kapirasongkritika wrote 8 months ago: Marami nang nasulat at nasabi tungkol sa pagkapanalo ni Barack Obama bilang presidente ng Estados Un … more →

Tags: Pulitika sa US, Barack Obama, manning marable, Ralph Nader, Eric Michael Dyson, Adolph Reed Jr.

June Jordan--"Jim Crow: The Sequel"l1 comment

laterain wrote 8 months ago: I think this was written in 1992 . . . see if you can figure out some of the folks she alludes to he … more →

Tags: Anti-racism, white privilege, rants, jim crow: the sequel, Affirmative Action, never got invited to the party

June Jordan5 comments

Ceara wrote 9 months ago:   Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to l … more →

Tags: Quotes, Lesbian, Gay, Queer, Bisexual, June Jordan quotes


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