Amiri Baraka
Born: 1934-10-07
• Newark, 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.
Filmography
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Return to Gorée
Turn Me On
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Poets at the Living Theater
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
The Pact
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Bulworth
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
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In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Speaking in Tongues
Poetry in Motion
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Death of a Prophet
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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Nationtime
1 P.M.
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Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
The New-Ark