Amiri Baraka
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- October 7, 1934
- Place of birth
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Died
- January 9, 2014
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.
Movies with Amiri Baraka
- Bulworth 1998 · ★ 6.3
- Death of a Prophet 1981 · ★ 4.8
- 1 P.M. 1971 · ★ 6.2
- Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow 2006 · ★ 6.9
- Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press 2008 · ★ 5.0
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket 1989 · ★ 3.0
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder 2009 · ★ 5.0
- Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds 1979 · ★ 7.7
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1982 · ★ 7.0
- Poetry in Motion 1982 · ★ 8.0
- Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit 1997 · ★ 5.2
- Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet 2005 · ★ 8.0
- Nationtime: Gary 1972 · ★ 8.0
- castelporziano ostia dei poeti 2025 · ★ 7.5
- W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices 1996 · ★ 6.5
- Return to Gorée 2007 · ★ 9.0
- Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement 1978 · ★ 9.0
- The Pact 2006
- Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri 2024
- Cecil Taylor: All The Notes 2005
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place 2007
- In Motion: Amiri Baraka 1983
- The New-Ark 1969
- Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper 1987
- New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture 2008
- Turn Me On 2007
- Black Journal: 23; New-Ark 1970
- Poets at the Living Theater 2006
- Speaking in Tongues 1982
Movies directed by Amiri Baraka
- The New-Ark 1969
- Cellar Vigil 1966
- Black Spring 1967