Amiri Baraka

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

2026

The Dutchman

Original Story

Movie
2025

castelporziano ostia dei poeti

Self - poet

Movie
2024

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

Self

Movie
2009

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Self

Movie
2008

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

Self

Movie
2008

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

Himself

Movie
2007

Return to Gorée

Self

Movie
2007

Turn Me On

Self

Movie
2007

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Movie
2006

Poets at the Living Theater

Self

Movie
2006

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

Self

Movie
2006

The Pact

Self

Movie
2005

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

Himself

Movie
2005

Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

Self

Movie
1998

Bulworth

Rastaman

Movie
1997

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

Self

Movie
1996

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

Self

Movie
1994

ER

Reid

Tv
1989

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Self

Movie
1987

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

Himself

Movie
1983

In Motion: Amiri Baraka

Himself

Movie
1982

Speaking in Tongues

Movie
1982

Poetry in Motion

Self

Movie
1982

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Self

Movie
1981

Death of a Prophet

Movie
1979

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

Self

Movie
1978

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

Self

Movie
1973

Medea

Writer

Movie
1972

Nationtime: Gary

Self

Movie
1971

1 P.M.

Self

Movie
1971

A Fable

Screenplay

Movie
1971

Great Performances

Self

Tv
1970

Black Journal: 23; New-Ark

Self

Movie
1969

The New-Ark

Self

Movie
1967

Black Spring

Director

Movie
1966

Dutchman

Writer

Movie
1966

Cellar Vigil

Director

Movie