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June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American writer and teacher. She was openly bisexual. Her career as a poet and activist embodied the ideals of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s, during which she came of age.
Life She was born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants. Her father Granville Ivanhoe Jordan was a postal clerk on the night shift, and her mother Mildred worked as a nurse. When June was five years old, the family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Jordan was the only black student in her high school.
In 1953, Jordan enrolled at Barnard College. There she met a white Columbia University student, Michael Meyer. They married in 1955, and had a son, Christopher. The couple divorced in 1966.
Jordan's first published book, Who Look at Me, appeared in 1969, a collection of poems for children. Twenty-seven more books followed in her lifetime, one was in press when she died, and at least one more has been published posthumously. Her autobiographical Soldier: A Poet's Childhood came out in 2000. Although best known as a poet, she was also an essayist, a regular columnist for The Progressive, a novelist, a biographer, and a librettist.
Jordan's teaching career began in 1967 at the City College of New York. She founded Poetry for the People at the University of California, Berkeley. In between, she taught at several other institutions of higher education, including Yale University.
After battling the disease for a decade, Jordan died of breast cancer, at her home in Berkeley, California.
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