Amiri Baraka
Writing
Born October 7, 1934 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Known For · 31 titles
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Great Performances
Bulworth
Nationtime: Gary
Death of a Prophet
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
The Pact
Return to Gorée
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
1 P.M.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Poets at the Living Theater
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Poetry in Motion
Speaking in Tongues
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
The New-Ark
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Turn Me On
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture