A. Van Jordan Biography
A. Van Jordan (born March 5, 1965 Akron, Ohio) is an American poet.
He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C.
He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Austin, and Warren Wilson College. He teaches at the University of Michigan.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares, and Callaloo amongst other publications.
When I'm running across the city
on the crowded streets
to home, when, in a blur,
the grass turns brown
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INSERT SHOT: Einstein's notebook 1905—DAY 1: a theory that is based on two postulates (a) that the speed of light in all inertial frames is constant, independent of the source or observer.
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Because a razor cuts across a frame of film,
I wince, squinting my eye,
and because my day needs assembly
to make sense of the scenes anyway,
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In my car, driving through Black Mountain,
North Carolina, I listen to what
sounds like Doris Day shooting
heroin inside Sly Stone's throat.
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