Amiri Baraka [545358] Gender: Male Popularity: 0.8015 Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA Birthday: 1934-10-07 Deathday: 2014-01-09 Age: 79 years Movies: 26 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. Sing! Fight! Sin2024-02-16 Ferlinghetti: A 2009-04-01 Obscene2008-09-26 New York Agora: 2008-01-01 Return to Gorée2007-10-27 Turn Me On2007-07-31 Polis Is This: C2007-04-01 Poets at the Liv2006-11-01 Hubert Selby Jr:2006-06-22 The Pact2006-01-01 Cecil Taylor: Al2005-01-01 Sun Ra: Brother 2005-01-01 Bulworth1998-05-15 Scenes from Alle1997-07-03 James Baldwin: T1989-08-14 Langston Hughes:1987-02-23 In Motion: Amiri1983-01-02 Poetry in Motion1982-09-17 I Heard It Throu1982-03-03 Death of a Proph1981-01-01 Fried Shoes Cook1979-10-01 Black Theatre: T1978-12-31 Nationtime1972-11-01 1 P.M.1971-06-08 Black Journal: 21970-07-01 The New-Ark1969-02-01