Poets & Writers Theater

“Trucks cruisin’ down the avenue / carrying nuclear garbage right next to you / and it’s legal.” In this installment of Poetry Spots, a WNYC television show produced by Bob Holman between 1987 and 1993, June Jordan reads her poem “Song of the Law Abiding Citizen.”

In this 1981 Brockport Writers Forum interview, June Jordan reads “A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters,” and speaks about how she came to poetry and fell in love with “the possibility of language.”

In this video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), talks about her favorite love poems, including Thom Gunn’s “The Hug” and June Jordan’s “Resolution #1,003.”