Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
[7] M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (2005),[8][9][10][11] which was listed as one of the Best Books of 2005 by The Times (London);[citation needed] Quantum Lyrics (2007);[12][13][14][15] and The Cineaste (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013).
[16][17] In 2013 he published a chapbook called The Homesteader,[18] and in 2021, he published an ekphrastic chapbook, I Want to See My Skirt, in collaboration with filmmaker Cauleen Smith, based on photographs by Malian photographer Malick Sidibé.
Both of his chapbooks were published by Unicorn Press, Greensboro, NC, and edited by Andrew Saulters.
Jordan is married to Shirley Collado, a professor of psychology and former president of Ithaca College.