Amiri Baraka
Writing
Born October 7, 1934 · 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.
Directed (3)
Acting (29)
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008
Return to Gorée
2007
Turn Me On
2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006
The Pact
2006
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
Bulworth
1998
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983
Speaking in Tongues
1982
Poetry in Motion
1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
Death of a Prophet
1981
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
Nationtime
1972
1 P.M.
1971
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970
The New-Ark
1969