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Amiri Baraka

Writing · Born October 7, 1934 · 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.

Movies with Amiri Baraka

• Bulworth (1998) — Rastaman
• Nationtime: Gary (1972) — Self
• Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978) — Self
• The Pact (2006) — Self
• Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009) — Self
• Death of a Prophet (1981)
• Poetry in Motion (1982) — Self
• Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006) — Self
• Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987) — Himself
• castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025) — Self - poet
• Poets at the Living Theater (2006) — Self
• Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008) — Self