Event Listing - Literary Arts, Gay

Wed Jun 11, 2008

Remembering June Jordan

Location	Date and Time
San Francisco LGBT Community Center 1800 Market St San Francisco, CA 94102 map cross street: Octavia district: Castro/Upper Market	Wed Jun 11, 2008 (7:30pm - 9:30pm)

Description

Queer poets come together for one stellar night of poetry and performance, to commemorate the continuing legacy of the bisexual African American poet, the late and beloved June Jordan.

These artists (alumni of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program) will read their own poems and share selections of Jordan’s work that changed both their politics and their writing.

Charged with the idea that “the personal is political,” their poems speak powerfully of love, loss, hope, outrage. As they enter into the new millennium, these poets bravely grapple with the connections between issues of queer identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and feminism, within the context of local community-building and global social justice movements.

To see June reading her own work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQIAbvGTWf4.