Jordan closes her merit review statement by writing: “Finally, I may submit my ongoing national and international work as a Poet and Thinker and Political Writer as (ongoing) evidence of my service to University of California at Berkeley.” Ms. Jordan drops the mic.
(clipped) our faculty.
In addition, I served on the Standing Committee on Reading and Composition.
Finally, I may submit my ongoing national and international work as a Poet and Thinker and Political Writer as onging evidence of my service to University of California at Berkeley.
(Image description) Portrait of June Jordan
(Image caption) June Jordan: ‘Writing’s just another form of activism. Ask if it is relevant to survival, relevant to justice.’
Left: Merit review statement, by June Jordan, circa 1993, Carton 6:50, Barbara Christian papers, BANC MSS 2003/199 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Right: June Jordan, photographed by Lori Eanes, “Words for a vision we can live by: Blending poetry and politics, June Jordan jolts the world,” Harold Levine, East Bay Guardian, February 1991, Carton 6:50, Barbara Christian papers, BANC MSS 2003/199 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
