1934-10-07 ( 90 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009-04-01
Obscene
2008-09-26
Return to Gorée
2007-10-27
Turn Me On
2007-07-31
Poets at the Living Theater
2006-11-01
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006-06-22
The Pact
2006-01-01
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005-01-01
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005-01-01
Bulworth
1998-05-15
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989-08-14
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987-02-23
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983-01-02
Poetry in Motion
1982-09-17
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982-03-03
Death of a Prophet
1981-01-01
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979-10-01
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978-12-31
Nationtime
1972-11-01
1 P.M.
1971-06-08
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970-07-01
The New-Ark
1969-02-01
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