Foreword: a definition of love / Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Part 1: Poet on the world stage. In response to "The Bombing of Baghdad" by June Jordan / Naomi Shihab Nye
Black alive and looking straight at you : the legacy of June Jordan / Elizabeth Alexander
It began as a romance : the collaboration of June Jordan and Adrienne B. Torf / Adrienne B. Torf
How she sang the blues / Alexis De Veaux
June Jordan and the renaissance of poetry as a performing art urban ghazal / Zack Rogow
"A report from the Bahamas" : and what of identity politics? / Margo Okazawa-Rey
Elegy for a soldier / Marilyn Hacker
Letters to my friend, for June Jordan / Kathy Engel
¡Puño en Alto! ¡Libro Abierto! / Fists up! Books open! : on anti-intellectualism, literacy brigades, and revolutionary consciousness / María Poblet
The setup / Mahogany L. Browne
The waters are wide : we can cross over / Becky Thompson
Call and response / Gwendolen Hardwick
Part 2: We are lucky she dared. "Some of us did not die" : remembering June Jordan after all is said and done / E. Ethelbert Miller
Bit by bit america / Dima Hilal
Elphistone, Bombay, 1993 / Rajasvini Bhansali
"The Bombing of Baghdad" : building connections in a time of war
Maestra / Xochiquetsal candelaria
A practice of freedom not past / Ariel Luckey
A blueprint for June's love / Sheila Menezes
Choosing a praxis of liberation / Kate Holbrook
On the spirit of June Jordan : the ultimate capacities of a school's lifeforce standing at the gates / Jessica Wei Huang
Stay all the way with Reggie and Ranya / Reid Gómez
"I choose / anything / anyone / I may lose" : June Jordan, faith, and holy risk / Dani Gabriel
Between the knuckles of my own two hands : learning from June Jordan / Sriram Shamasunder
Part 3: The awesome, difficult work of love. A place of rage : a conversation / Angela Y. Davis, Pratibha Parmar, and Leigh Raiford
In response to "Apologies to All the People in Lebanon" / Adrienne Maree Brown
After June Jordan, a poem about police violence / Jehan Bseiso
For the sake of a people's poetry : June Jordan and Walt Whitman / Donna Masini
Truth-telling as an emancipatory act : what June Jordan taught me about liberation / Elizabeth Riva Meyer
Finding "Living Room" with my drone / Zeina Azzam
Love like a mango, obvious / Will Horter
June Jordan : what all things are dear that disappear / Wesley Brown
"Something Like a Sonnet" : reading June Jordan, finding my voice and becoming an oral historian / Kelly Elaine Navies
Choosing my mind between the mosquitos and the moon / Ruth Nicole Brown
A note on praxis and Black girls / Dominque C. HIll
Become a menace / Afaa M. Weaver
Afterword: June Jordan ; an eternal summer / Imani Perry.
