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The June Jordan School for Equity: A poet’s legacy in the voice of the children, by Adrienne Torf
Throughout her life, June Jordan committed herself to providing young people with the space, encouragement, respect and craft to find their own voices and to speak their own truths through poetry. Now that commitment lives in a new school that bears her name.
Poets in the News, 2004
Your poetry guides are keeping an eye on local papers all over the world, for poets & poems you may not already know about who show up in the mainstream news media. Here’s a selection of the most interesting stories in 2004.

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