
Amiri Baraka
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.
31 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 31

ER
1994

Great Performances
1971

Bulworth
1998

Death of a Prophet
1981

Nationtime
1972

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008

The Pact
2006

1 P.M.
1971

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009

Poetry in Motion
1982

Return to Gorée
2007

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970

Poets at the Living Theater
2006
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979

W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987

castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025

Turn Me On
2007

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024

Speaking in Tongues
1982

The New-Ark
1969