Amiri Baraka
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.
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Movies (35)
The Dutchman
Original Story (Writing)
2026
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
2025
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
2024
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
2009
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
as Self
2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself
2008
Return to Gorée
as Self
2007
Turn Me On
as Self
2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
2006
The Pact
as Self
2006
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
2005
Bulworth
as Rastaman
1998
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1997
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
as Self
1996
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
1989
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
1987
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself
1983
Speaking in Tongues
1982
Poetry in Motion
as Self
1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
1982
Death of a Prophet
1981
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
1979
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
1978
Medea
Writer (Writing)
1973
Nationtime
as Self
1972
1 P.M.
as Self
1971
A Fable
Screenplay (Writing)
1971
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
1970
The New-Ark
as Self
1969
Black Spring
Director (Directing)
1967
Dutchman
Writer (Writing)
1966
Cellar Vigil
Director (Directing)
1966
