Amiri Baraka

Known for WritingBorn 1934-10-07Died 2014-01-09Newark, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Return to Gorée

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

castelporziano ostia dei poeti

Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

Poetry in Motion

ER

Nationtime

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Medea

W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices

Bulworth

1 P.M.

Great Performances

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

The Dutchman

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

Dutchman

Death of a Prophet

A Fable

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Turn Me On

The Pact

Poets at the Living Theater

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

In Motion: Amiri Baraka

Speaking in Tongues

Black Journal: 23; New-Ark

The New-Ark

Black Spring

Cellar Vigil