Amiri Baraka
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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
Credits
Bulworth (1998)
as Rastaman
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)
as Self
Nationtime: Gary (1972)
as Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
as Self
The Pact (2006)
as Self
Poetry in Motion (1982)
as Self
Death of a Prophet (1981)
Actor
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
as Himself
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)
as Self
castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025)
as Self - poet
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008)
as Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Actor
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)
as Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
as Self
Poets at the Living Theater (2006)
as Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
as Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
as Himself
Return to Gorée (2007)
as Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
as Self
1 P.M. (1971)
as Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970)
as Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (2005)
as Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture (2008)
as Himself
Speaking in Tongues (1982)
Actor
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)
as Himself
The New-Ark (1969)
as Self
Turn Me On (2007)
as Self