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.
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
(Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka))
The Pact
(Himself)
Obscene
(Self)
1 P.M.
(Self)
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
(Self)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
(Himself)
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
(Self)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
(Self)
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
(Self)
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
(Himself)
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Return to Gorée
(Self)
Bulworth
(Rastaman)
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
(Himself)
Poetry in Motion
(self)
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
(Self)
The New-Ark
(Self)
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
(Himself)
Death of a Prophet
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
(Self)
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
(Himself)
Turn Me On
(Self)
Nationtime
(Self)
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
(Self)
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
(Self)
ER
(Reid)
Great Performances
(Self)