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.
29 movies · 2 shows
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025·8.0
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024·0.0
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009·5.0
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008·4.4
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008·0.0
Return to Gorée
2007·9.0
Turn Me On
2007·0.0
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007·0.0
Poets at the Living Theater
2006·0.0
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006·6.9
The Pact
2006·0.0
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005·0.0
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005·8.0
Bulworth
1998·6.3
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997·5.2
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996·6.5
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989·3.0
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987·0.0
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983·0.0
Speaking in Tongues
1982·0.0
Poetry in Motion
1982·8.0
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982·6.5
Death of a Prophet
1981·4.5
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979·7.7
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978·9.0
Nationtime: Gary
1972·8.0
1 P.M.
1971·6.2
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970·0.0
The New-Ark
1969·0.0