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Known ForActing
GenderMale
BirthdayOctober 6, 1934 (90 years old)
Place of BirthNewark, New Jersey, USA
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
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
The Pact
Obscene
1 P.M.
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Return to Gorée
Bulworth
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Poetry in Motion
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
The New-Ark
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Death of a Prophet
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Turn Me On
Nationtime
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Poets at the Living Theater
ER
Great Performances
