The essential June Jordan

From Who look at me

If you saw a negro lady

Roman poem number thirteen

I must become a menace to my enemies

Poem about my rights

A runaway li'l bit poem

Poem at the midnight of my life

Poem about process and progress

Focus in real time

It's hard to keep a clean shirt clean

Last poem for a little while

To be continued

Song of the law abiding citizen

Letter to the local police

Owed to Eminem

The bombing of Baghdad

Poem for Nana

Ghazal at full moon

Poem to take back the night

To sing a song of Palestine

First poem from Nicaragua libre: teotecacinte

Second poem from Nicaragua libre: war zone

Third poem from Nicaragua libre: report from the frontier

A song of Sojourner Truth

My sadness sits around me

Getting down to get over

Case in point

Notes toward home

Moving towards home

A short note to my very ciritical and well-beloved friends and comrads

Okay "negroes"

What would I do white

May 27, 1971: no poem

Grand Army Plaza

On moral leadership as a political dilemma

Home: January 29, 1984

Notes on the peanut

Poem about police violence

On the Black family

Racial profile #3

1978

A poem about intelligence for my brothers and sisters

"Haruko"

Poem on the death of Princess Diana

Winter honey

On a New Year's Eve

1977: poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer

In the times of my heart

The reception

Poem for Mark

Sunflower sonnet number two

After all is said and done

Shakespeare's 116th sonnet in Black English translation

Exercise in quits

"Why I became a pacifist"

Poem for Siddhartha Gautama of the Shakyas: the original Buddha

Calling on all silent minorities

Poem number two on Bell's Theorem, or the new physicality of long distance love

Memoranda toward the Spring of seventy-nine

Scenario revision #1

For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka)

Free flight

Not looking

On the spirit of Mildred Jordan

Meta Rhetoric

Poem for South African women

July 4, 1984: for Buck

Something like a sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley

Poem about heartbreak that go on and on

Poem for a young poet

Democracy poem # 1

Poem from taped testimony in the tradition of Bernhard Goetz

On tie tanka

In defense of Christianity: sermon from the fount

Poem on sexual hysteria and sexual hypocracy

Manifest of the rubber gloves

Kissing God goodbye

Poems against a conclusion

Afterword.