Jayne Cortez
# Jayne Cortez

Jayne Cortez (10 de mayo de 1934 - 28 de diciembre de 2012) fue una poeta afroamericana, activista y artista de performance de la palabra hablada cuya voz se celebra por sus innovaciones políticas, surrealistas y dinámicas con lirismo y sonido visceral. Su escritura es parte del canon del Movimiento de Artes Negras.

## Libros de poesía

* On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems. Hanging Loose Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-931236-99-7.
* The Beautiful Book. Bola Press. 2007. ISBN 9780960806287.
* Jazz Fan Looks Back. 2002. ISBN 978-1-931236-10-2.
* Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere. Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books. 1997. ISBN 1852424222.
* Fragments: Sculpture and Drawings from the "Lynch Fragment" Series by Melvin Edwards, with the Poetry of Jayne Cortez. Bola Press. 1994. ISBN 1852424222.
* Poetic Magnetic: Poems from Everywhere Drums & Maintain Control. Bola Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-9608062-6-3.
* Coagulations: New and Selected Poems. Pluto. 1984. ISBN 978-0-7453-0078-8.
* 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)

## Discografía

* 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)
* 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)

## Filmografía

* 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)
