Amiri Baraka
Writing • Born 1934-10-07 – Died 2014-01-09
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.
Filmography
31 credits
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Movie • 1997
Self
The Pact
Movie • 2006
Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Movie • 2008
Self
1 P.M.
Movie • 1971
Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Movie • 2006
Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Movie • 2009
Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Movie • 1979
Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Movie • 1982
Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Movie • 2024
Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Movie • 2005
Himself
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Movie • 2007
Return to Gorée
Movie • 2007
Self
Bulworth
Movie • 1998
Rastaman
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Movie • 1983
Himself
Poetry in Motion
Movie • 1982
Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Movie • 2005
Self
The New-Ark
Movie • 1969
Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Movie • 1987
Himself
Death of a Prophet
Movie • 1981
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Movie • 1989
Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Movie • 2008
Himself
Turn Me On
Movie • 2007
Self
Nationtime
Movie • 1972
Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Movie • 1970
Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Movie • 1978
Self
Poets at the Living Theater
Movie • 2006
Self
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Movie • 2025
Self - poet
Speaking in Tongues
Movie • 1982
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Movie • 1996
Self
ER
TV • 1994
Reid
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self