1/2) was dedicated to her memory and work. In London, on July 19, 2013, a tribute event was held, with featured artists including John Agard, Jean "Binta" Breeze, Denardo Coleman, Zena Edwards, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols, Deirdre Pascall, Keith Waithe, Margaret Busby, and others. Selected awards 1970, Rockefeller Foundation grant 1980, American Book Award for Mouth on Paper 1987, National Endowment for the Arts 1994, Fannie Lou Hamer Award 1996, Arts International Award International African Festival Award 2001, Langston Hughes Medal New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry books Firespitter, Bola Press (1982) Mouth on Paper, Bola Press (1977) Scarifications, Bola Press (1973) Festivals and Funerals, Bola Press (1971) Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares, Phrase Text (1969) Discography As If You Knew (Bola Press, 2011) Find Your Own Voice: Poetry and Music, 1982–2003 (Bola Press, 2004) Borders of Disorderly Time (Bola Press, 2002) Taking the Blues Back Home (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996) Cheerful & Optimistic (Bola Press, 1994) Poetry & Music: Women in (E)Motion Festival (Tradition & Moderne Musikproducktion, Germany, 1992) Everywhere Drums (Bola Press, 1990) Maintain Control (Bola Press, 1986) There It Is (Bola Press, 1982) Life is a Killer (compilation on Giorno Poetry Systems, 1982) Poets Read their Contemporary Poetry: Before Columbus Foundation (Smithsonian Folkways, 1980) Unsubmissive Blues (Bola Press, 1979) Celebrations & Solitudes: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis, Bassist (Strata-East, 1974) Videos Find Your Own Voice (Sanctuary TV, 2010) She Got He Got (Sanctuary TV, 2010) I'm Gonna Shake (Sanctuary TV, 2010) Tribeca TV Series (David J. Burke, 1993) Filmography Femmes du Jazz/Women in Jazz (2000) Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (1999) Ornette: Made in America (1985) Poetry in Motion (1982) References Critical reviews, interviews, and scholarly references Anderson III, T. J. Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Benston, Kimberly W. "Renovating blackness: Remembrance and revolution in the Coltrane Poem." Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism. London: Routledge, 2000. Bolden, Tony. Afro-blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2004. Boyd, Herb. "Everywhere Drums." The Black Scholar. 21.4 (1991): 41. Brown, Kimberly N. "Return to the Flesh: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez." Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Clarke, Cheryl. "After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement. New