June Jordan: August 20, 1998

Thomas Robert Simpson, founder and artistic director of the AfroSolo Theater Company, welcomes the audience and introduces Jewelle Gomez, director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Gomez introduces June Jordan, who addresses the audience, reading and remarking on the following poems, some then unpublished, some from Kissing God Goodbye: "After Reading the Number One Intellectual American Best Seller, Future Shock, All About Change Is Where We're At," "The End of Kindness," "Poem for Annie Topham, Partner of Dr. Elizabeth Ann Karlin," "Poem on Moral Leadership as a Political Dilemma (Watergate, 1973)," "Poem on Sexual Hysteria and Sexual Hypocrisy," "Letter to Mrs. Virginia Thomas, Wife of Whatshisname Lamentably Appointed to the Supreme Court, U.S.A.," "Moving Towards Home," "1998 Midday Philadelphia Haiku," "Poem Against the Temptation of Ambivalence," three tanka, starting "Fallen on the street...," "El Campesino stoops...," and "What I need right now...," "Poem of 5/7/98," "Study Number Two," "Poem of Commitment," and "Kissing God Goodbye."