Amiri Baraka
Writing
1934-10-07 · 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.
Filmography
The Dutchman
2026 · Movie
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 · Movie
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024 · Movie
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 · Movie
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 · Movie
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008 · Movie
Return to Gorée
2007 · Movie
Turn Me On
2007 · Movie
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007 · Movie
Poets at the Living Theater
2006 · Movie
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 · Movie
The Pact
2006 · Movie
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Movie
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 · Movie
Bulworth
1998 · Movie
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997 · Movie
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 · Movie
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987 · Movie
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983 · Movie
Speaking in Tongues
1982 · Movie
Poetry in Motion
1982 · Movie
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 · Movie
Death of a Prophet
1981 · Movie
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979 · Movie
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Movie
Medea
1973 · Movie
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Movie
1 P.M.
1971 · Movie
A Fable
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970 · Movie
The New-Ark
1969 · Movie
Black Spring
1967 · Movie
Dutchman
1966 · Movie
Cellar Vigil
1966 · Movie