Amiri Baraka
Writing Born Oct 7, 1934 Newark, New Jersey, USA 24 credits
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.
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- ER (1994) as Reid
- Great Performances (1971) as Self
- Bulworth (1998) as Rastaman
- Nationtime: Gary (1972) as Self
- The Pact (2006) as Self
- Return to Gorée (2007) as Self
- Death of a Prophet (1981)
- castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025) as Self - poet
- Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979) as Self
- Poetry in Motion (1982) as Self
- W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996) as Self
- Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005) as Himself
- Poets at the Living Theater (2006) as Self
- In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983) as Himself
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) as Self
- The New-Ark (1969) as Self
- Speaking in Tongues (1982)
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009) as Self
- 1 P.M. (1971) as Self
- Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006) as Self
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) as Self
- Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970) as Self
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
- Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978) as Self