A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Cineaste, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors. He is a professor of creative writing at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.

A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Cineaste, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors. He is a professor of creative writing at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.

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