Showing posts with label June Jordan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June Jordan. Show all posts
Friday, February 10, 2023

The Power of Words -- from June Jordan

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      One of the very special privileges that I had while taking classes  at Hunter College (1999-2001) was to attend a poetry reading by Ju...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Code switching -- and a Fib . . .

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     1       When       1        I      2        speak to      3        you, I wish      5        to be understood.      8        If I...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Celebrate Martin Luther King

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     Today is our public celebration of the January 15 birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) who was both preacher and poet in the...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Problems of Translation

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     June Jordan's poem "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language" ( found at PoetryFoundation.org ) uses numbers and mea...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Poems with Numbers

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      Hats off to the organizers and presenters at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival held in DC this past weekend.  Great poets, gr...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival -- March 22-25

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Earlybird registration ends February 22 for the 2012 Split this Rock Poetry Festival in Washington, DC, March 22-25.  Honoring poet June Jo...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Hikmet -- painting with numbers

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Living is no laughing matter . . .  These are words of Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist Nazim Hikmet (1902-63), who spent ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Painting tragedy with numbers

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Although words such as "massacre" and "victim" and "buried" help us to understand the effects of disaster and ...