When a publication of a large selection of poems by Amiri Baraka, who died this past year, was announced, I immediately determined to review it. I’d had a somewhat distant but openly friendly ...
Playwright, poet and activist LeRoi Jones, whose play "Dutchman" is playing off-Broadway, is shown in New York City on June 30, 1964. Originally named Everett LeRoi Jones, he changed his name to Imamu ...
His booking agent, Celeste Bateman, told The Associated Press that Baraka, who had been hospitalized since last month, died Thursday at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Perhaps no writer of the ...
The 1963 book Blues People was the breakthrough work of the late poet, civil rights activist and Newark native Amiri Baraka, who was 28 at the time and still known as LeRoi Jones. “Blues People, now ...
S.O.S.: Poems 1961–2013 by Amiri Baraka, Grove Atlantic, 532 pages ($30). Here’s a scene from a backstage history of poetry in Buffalo as yet unwritten. One of the best and most gripping and ...
Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...
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