{"product_id":"june-jordans-poetry-for-the-people-expanded-edition-a-revolutionary-blueprint","title":"June Jordan's Poetry for the People (Expanded Edition): A Revolutionary Blueprint","description":"\u003cp\u003eby June Jordan, Edited by The Blueprint Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaymarket Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10\/13\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan id=\"pd-product-id\"\u003e9798888906583\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan's foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you want to know how to teach poetry--in a university, a high school, at a nature preserve, in a hospital, or in your living room--read this book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eJune Jordan's Poetry for the People\u003c\/em\u003e details how to build a grassroots poetry program through a collection of strategies, sample student work, course descriptions, and a step-by-step guide to organizing and promoting readings, alongside original writing from Adrienne Rich, Joy Harjo, Ntozake Shange, and Cornelius Eady.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow with a guide to teaching ethically in the digital age, this easy-to-use, timely reference is perfect for teachers of poetry at any level and in any group setting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Subversive and wonderful...Jordan's manual moves us toward restoring poetry to the altars of our personal lives. It matters more than ever, especially here and now.\" -- Joy Harjo, former poet laureate of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jordan's communal vision calls for our riotous responsibility to the poem as the revolutionary's device--to activate, to trouble, to unsettle until everything seeps with care.\" -- Felicia Zamora, author of \u003cem\u003eMurmuration Archives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePoetry for the People \u003c\/em\u003eis a bible, a homecoming, a star. Every time I read this book, I am a better student, teacher, and poet.\" -- Mairead Case, author and educator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/strong\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His work has been published widely in major venues including The FADER, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker. Abdurraqib's books have been finalists for or winners of the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. His most recent book is\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension-1\" title=\"There's Always This Year\"\u003eThere's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eHanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamiya Bashir\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, writer, librettist, and performer whose work has been widely published and viewed from Berlin to the United States. Formerly the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, she has served as Visiting Professor of Poetry for the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. Bashir lives in Harlem. Her fourth collection, \u003cem\u003eI Hope this Helps\u003c\/em\u003e, was released by Nightboat Books to wide acclaim in 2025. Her honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon's Arts \u0026amp; Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, plus numerous other awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJune Jordan\u003c\/strong\u003e was a courageous agitator for change, writing with love and rage at the front lines of American poetry and of injustice on an international scale. She gained renown as both an essayist and political writer, penning a regular column for the \u003cem\u003eProgressive\u003c\/em\u003e. Jordan was the founder of the Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and the recipient of a congressional citation for her outstanding contributions to literature, the progressive movement, and the civil rights movement. Her poetry is known for its immediacy and accessibility as well as its interest in identity and the representation of personal, lived experience--her poetry is often deeply autobiographical. Jordan's work also frequently imagines a radical, globalized notion of solidarity among the world's marginalized and oppressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Blueprint Collective: \u003c\/strong\u003eLauren Muller, Shanti Bright, Gary Chandler, Ananda Esteva, Sean Lewis, Stephanie Rose, Shelly Smith, Shelly Teves, Rubén Antonio Villalobos, and Pamela Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54480248144155,"sku":"June Jordan's Poetry for the","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/717QxKUcDdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793729800","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/june-jordans-poetry-for-the-people-expanded-edition-a-revolutionary-blueprint","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}