Ed Rampell – The Progressive Magazine
Poetry for the People vividly brings Jordan and her oeuvre alive using a variety of techniques. Film clips, including interviews with the poet and Angela Davis (who insisted that Jordan play tennis with her), are projected onto four screens (media design by Deja Collins). Six multi-cultural women thespians (America Covarrubias, Naseem Etemad, Kita Grayson, Mackenzie Mondag, Savannah Shoenecker, and Janet Song) reenact Jordan and some of the figures who crossed paths with her, including civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer (as portrayed by Grayson) Read more…