The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Many of the obits mention his poetry ...

For anyone without the benefit of an African American studies degree or having spent time in Newark, NJ, the name Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) may be unfamiliar. Too bad. When thinking about 20th ...

Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more different. Or, possibly ...

Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka), Amina Baraka, Simon Vinkenoog, Seymour Krim, Cecil Taylor, Michael McClure, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Ahmed Yacoubi, Erró (Gudmundur ...

Rovîa stopped by the LPM Performance Studio to chat with Otis Junior about his latest release Act 4: Atonement. He spoke about some of his favorite writers, the beauty of collaboration, and his ...

This video portrait filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Barakas appeal of his 90day ... the 8th Street Playhouse movie theater documents Baraka at his radio show at home with his wife and ...

Her zodiac sign is Gemini. American Personality Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoy Jones on 7th October, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, USA and passed away on 9th Jan 2014 Newark, New Jersey, USA aged ...

In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still ...

We publish a great range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Whitney Balliett, Amiri Baraka, Hayden Carruth, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Jayne Cortez, Stephen Dunn, Gary Giddins, ...

It’s called Apple Cores. Apple Cores was inspired by Amiri Baraka and Don Cherry, and its first single is the hazy, funky reverie “Prince Eugene.” Chad Taylor and Josh Werner back Lewis up ...

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement in 1960s America and how that movement inspired her as a black British writer.