June Jordan 
Passion 

After decades out of print,
Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled,
passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights, ” “Poem About Police Violence, ” “Free Flight, ” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

About the author

Nicole Sealey is the author of the collections Ordinary Beast (2017), a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (2016), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. The former executive director at Cave Canem, she is the inspiration behind the “Sealey Challenge, ” a popular social media challenge to read a book of poems each day in August.