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    • A. Van Jordan

    A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.

    A. Van Jordan

    A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.

    Awards

    Winner — Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, 2024

    Books by A. Van Jordan

    • M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      Paperback, 2006

      "Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention." --Black Issues Book Review

    • The Cineaste: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      Hardback, 2013

      A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie.

    • The Cineaste: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      Paperback, 2014

      “Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly

    • Quantum Lyrics: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      Paperback, 2009

      "Fearless hybridization.... Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and jazz, memory and loss, come together."—American Prospect

    • The Cineaste: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      E Book, 2013

      “Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly

    • When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems

      A. Van Jordan

      Paperback, 2025

      A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting and examines Black lives lost to police violence

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