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 ...

The service, held at Newark Symphony Hall, featured poetry, music and tributes to a man several speakers hailed as a creative and committed revolutionary who had a profound influence both on American ...

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, ...

Baristas are needed for the new shop dedicated to Pop Smoke, and a soft launch is set to take place in Canarsie. 5 hours ago Okayplayer is honored that Saul has chosen this space to unveil that poem, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The same rhetorical bomb throwing that drew attention to Baraka for his poem "Who Blew Up America" shoots through these stories written from 1974 through the present. Baraka works over issues of ...

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