परिचय
मूल नाम : जून मिलिसेंट जॉर्डन (June Millicent Jordan)
जन्म : 9 जुलाई 1936, हार्लेम, न्यू यार्क, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिकाभाषा : अँग्रेजीविधाएँ : कविता, निबंध, संपादन, पत्रकारितामुख्य कृतियाँ
Who Look at Me, Some Changes, His Own Where, Dry Victories, Fannie Lou Hamer, New Days, New Life, Things That I Do in the Dark : Selected Poems, Passion, Kimako's Story, Civil Wars, Living Room, On Call, Lyrical Campaigns, Moving Towards Home, Naming Our Destiny, Technical Difficulties : African-American Notes on the State of the Union, Technical Difficulties: New Political Essays, Haruko : Love Poems, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, June Jordan's Poetry for the People : A Revolutionary Blueprint, Kissing God Goodbye, Affirmative Acts, Soldier : A Poet's Childhood, Some of Us Did Not Die, Soulscript : A Collection of Classic African American Poetry, His Own Where
सम्मान
Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a Yaddo Fellowship in 1979, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1982, the Achievement Award for International Reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1984, Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award from 1995 to 1998, Ground Breakers-Dream Makers Award from The Woman's Foundation in 1994, West Freedom to Write Award (1991)
निधन
14 जून 2002, कैलिफोर्निया, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका