Cast
Amiri Baraka
Writing
Cast
Amiri Baraka
Known for
Writing
Born
1934-10-07
From
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died
2014-01-09
Also known as Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear 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.
Bulworth
as Rastaman
Nationtime
as Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self
The New-Ark
as Self
Death of a Prophet
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
Poetry in Motion
as Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
The Pact
as Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself
1 P.M.
as Self
Return to Gorée
as Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself
Turn Me On
as Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
