Writing
Amiri Baraka
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
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Film · 2025
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Film · 2024
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Film · 2009
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Film · 2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Film · 2008
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Film · 2007
Return to Gorée
Film · 2007
Turn Me On
Film · 2007
The Pact
Film · 2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Film · 2006
Poets at the Living Theater
Film · 2006
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Film · 2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Film · 2005
Bulworth
Film · 1998
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Film · 1997
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Film · 1996
ER
Series · 1994
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Film · 1989
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Film · 1987
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Film · 1983
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Film · 1982
Poetry in Motion
Film · 1982
Speaking in Tongues
Film · 1982
Death of a Prophet
Film · 1981
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Film · 1979
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Film · 1978
Nationtime: Gary
Film · 1972
1 P.M.
Film · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Film · 1970
The New-Ark
Film · 1969