Amiri Baraka
Writing
1934-10-07 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
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.
moviecastelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet · 2025 · 8.0
movieSing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self · 2024 · 0.0
movieFerlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self · 2009 · 5.0
movieObscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self · 2008 · 4.4
movieNew York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself · 2008 · 0.0
movieReturn to Gorée
as Self · 2007 · 9.0
movieTurn Me On
as Self · 2007 · 0.0
moviePolis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
as · 2007 · 0.0
moviePoets at the Living Theater
as Self · 2006 · 0.0
movieHubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self · 2006 · 6.9
movieThe Pact
as Self · 2006 · 0.0
movieCecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself · 2005 · 0.0
movieSun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self · 2005 · 8.0
movieBulworth
as Rastaman · 1998 · 6.3
movieScenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self · 1997 · 5.2
movieW.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self · 1996 · 6.5
tvER
as Reid · 1994 · 7.8
movieJames Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self · 1989 · 3.0
movieLangston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself · 1987 · 0.0
movieIn Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself · 1983 · 0.0
movieSpeaking in Tongues
as · 1982 · 0.0
moviePoetry in Motion
as Self · 1982 · 8.0
movieI Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self · 1982 · 7.0
movieDeath of a Prophet
as · 1981 · 4.5