The Quarantine Tapes: Quotation Shorts - June Jordan
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
-June Jordan
One of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed Jamaican American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan was known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Over a career that produced twenty-seven volumes of poems, essays, libretti, and work for children, Jordan engaged with the fundamental struggles of her era, for civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/books/review/june-jordan-muriel-rukeyser-essential.html
