Amiri Baraka
Known for Writing
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.
Filmography
Bulworth
1998
as Rastaman
Nationtime
1972
as Self
Death of a Prophet
1981
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
as Himself
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
as Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006
as Self
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
as Self
Poetry in Motion
1982
as Self
The Pact
2006
as Self
Return to Gorée
2007
as Self
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983
as Himself
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
as Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
as Himself
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
as Self - poet
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
as Self
1 P.M.
1971
as Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008
as Self
Turn Me On
2007
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Self