Massachusetts Council on the Arts Award in 1985; a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1987; a Nora Astorga Leadership Award in 1989; a Distinguished Service award from the Northfield Mount Herman School in 1993; a Ground Breakers-Dream Makers Award from the Woman's Foundation in 1994; a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award from 1995 to 1998; a Critics Award and a encyclo from the Edinburgh Festival in 1995, for I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, which premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Jordan was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1972 for her young adult novel His Own Where. She was included in Who's Who in America from 1984 until her death in 2002. She received the Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship from UC Berkeley and the PEN Center USA West Freedom to Write Award in 1991. In 2005, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems, a posthumous collection of her work, received a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry even though Jordan identified as bisexual. However, BiNet USA led the bisexual community in a multi-year campaign eventually resulting in the addition of a Bisexual category, starting with the 2006 Awards. Reception Author Toni Morrison commented: In political journalism that cuts like razors in essays that blast the darkness of confusion with relentless light; in poetry that looks as closely into lilac buds as into death's mouth ... [Jordan] has comforted, explained, described, wrestled with, taught and made us laugh out loud before we wept ... I am talking about a span of forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art. Poet Adrienne Rich noted: Whatever her theme or mode, June Jordan continually delineates the conditions of survival—of the body, and mind, and the heart. Alice Walker stated: Jordan makes us think of Akhmatova, of Neruda. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all of us. She is the universal poet. Thulani Davis wrote: In a borough that has landmarks for the writers Thomas Wolfe, W. H. Auden, and Henry Miller, to name just three, there ought to be a street in Bed-Stuy called June Jordan Place, and maybe a plaque reading, 'A Poet and Soldier for Humanity Was Born Here.' Bibliography Who Look at Me, Crowell, 1969, OCLC 22828 Soulscript (editor), Doubleday, 1970, OCLC 492067711 The Voice of the Children, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 (co-editor),