This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy

Provincetown icons Byllye Avery and Ngina Lythcott, along with editor and poet Becky Thompson share a collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist

This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Celebrating the life and legacy of the poet activist June Jordan, this collection illuminates why we need Jordan more than ever.

Featuring a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, an afterword from Imani Perry, essays, poems, letters, and interviews from internationally acclaimed poets and thinkers such as Angela Davis, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa M. Weaver, E. Ethelbert Miller, and many other people touched by Jordan’s work.

This event is free and open to all, please RSVP. Co-sponsored by The Provincetown Public Library and Womencrafts. Copies of THIS UNRULY WITNESS will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person.

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