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.

Known For

ER

Great Performances

Nationtime

Bulworth

1 P.M.

Poetry in Motion

Death of a Prophet

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

All Movies (29)

• castelporziano ostia dei poeti2025 · as Self - poet
• Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri2024 · as Self
• Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder2009 · as Self
• Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press2008 · as Self
• New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture2008 · as Himself
• Return to Gorée2007 · as Self
• Turn Me On2007 · as Self
• Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place2007
• Poets at the Living Theater2006 · as Self
• Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow2006 · as Self
• The Pact2006 · as Self
• Cecil Taylor: All The Notes2005 · as Himself
• Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet2005 · as Self
• Bulworth1998 · as Rastaman
• Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit1997 · as Self
• W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices1996 · as Self
• James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1989 · as Self
• Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper1987 · as Himself
• In Motion: Amiri Baraka1983 · as Himself
• Speaking in Tongues1982
• Poetry in Motion1982 · as Self
• I Heard It Through the Grapevine1982 · as Self
• Death of a Prophet1981
• Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds1979 · as Self
• Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement1978 · as Self
• Nationtime1972 · as Self
• 1 P.M.1971 · as Self
• Black Journal: 23; New-Ark1970 · as Self
• The New-Ark1969 · as Self

All TV Shows (2)

• ER1994 · as Reid
• Great Performances1971 · as Self