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