June Jordan

Jul 27, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | June Jordan

1 I turn to my Rand McNally Atlas. Europe appears right after the Map of the World. All of Italy can be seen page 9. Half of Chile page 29. I take out my ruler. In global perspective Italy amounts to less than half an inch. Chile measures more than an inch and a quarter of an inch. Approximately Chile is as long as China is wide: Back to the Atlas: Chunk of China page 17. All of France page 5: As we say in New York: Who do France and Italy know at Rand McNally?

Dec 8, 2023 | dailydrolls.com | June Jordan

The MLX framework was released on GitHub amid the generative AI storm. While mostly staying out of the generative AI competition, Apple has released an open source array framework on GitHub for building machine learning transformer language models and text generation AI on the company’s own silicon. Jump to:What is Apple’s MLX framework?

Dec 8, 2023 | entertainment-mag.com | June Jordan

These PoemsBy June JordanThese poemsthey are things that I doin the darkreaching for youwhoever you areandare you ready? These wordsthey are stones in the waterrunning awayThese skeletal linesthey are desperate arms for my longing and love. I am a strangerlearning to worship the strangersaround mewhoever you arewhoever I may become. June Jordan(1936-2002) was born in Harlem and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Dec 7, 2023 | nytimes.com | June Jordan

The lines in June Jordan's "These Poems" explain the poet's modus operandi. Her poems are made "in the dark," as if by subterranean or subversive means. They are composed of words that glide away from her like skipping stones destined to submerge in some body of water. The act of being inspired by others is akin to collecting pebbles of experience, letting them escape into flowing consciousness and resurfacing them again in one's writing.

Dec 6, 2023 | dailydrolls.com | June Jordan

After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel’s internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel’s internal data conversion feature. Excel tries to determine an input value’s data type — and, for most of us, that’s helpful. For instance, if you enter a string that represents a date, Excel automatically converts it into the date value. If you meant to enter the date, great; if not, you’re out of luck.