Known For
Writing
Born
Oct 07, 1934
Died
Jan 09, 2014
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Credits
37 titles
Amiri Baraka
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
Filmography
The Dutchman
Original Story
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Self - poet
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Himself
Return to Gorée
Self
Turn Me On
Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Poets at the Living Theater
Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
The Pact
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Self
Bulworth
Rastaman
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Self
ER
Reid
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Himself
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Himself
Speaking in Tongues
Poetry in Motion
Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Self
Death of a Prophet
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Self
Medea
Writer
Nationtime: Gary
Self
1 P.M.
Self
A Fable
Screenplay
Great Performances
Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Self
The New-Ark
Self
Black Spring
Director
Dutchman
Writer
Cellar Vigil
Director