“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” – June Jordan
Born on this date in 1936, Jordan was the daughter of Jamaican immigrants who earned dozens of writing honors, among
them a Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a National Endowment for the
Arts poetry fellowship, and an Achievement Award for International Reporting.
She founded the "Poetry for the People" program at UC-Berkeley in 1991, it’s aim to inspire and empower students to use poetry as a means of artistic expression. For Saturday’s Poem, here is Jordan's,
These Poems
These poems
they are things that I do
in the dark
reaching for you
whoever you are
and
are you ready?
These words
they are stones in the water
running away
These skeletal lines
they are desperate arms for my longing and love.
I am a stranger
learning to worship the strangers
around me
whoever you are
whoever I may become.
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