About June Jordan: June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and activist.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
