Amiri Baraka was born Everett Leroi Jones on Oct. 7, 1934, and a handful of old Newarkers never stopped calling him Leroi. His father, Coyt Leroy Jones, was a postal worker who eventually became ...

We didn’t know the late Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), who died this week at the age of seventy-nine, as a famous poet who initiated the powerful Black Arts Movement in 1965, or as the man ...

Baraka, earlier known as LeRoi Jones, was in many ways a cultural outsider — a fierce revolutionary who skewered an establishment he wanted no part of. His poetry collections "Preface to a ...

Published while he still went by LeRoi Jones, it provides a composite picture of Baraka’s evolving thought, aesthetic values and literary experimentation. In this episode, Brent and Adam discuss the ...

"Homage to Leroi Jones" consists of "exercises" (Acker's own term) employing William Burroughs's cut-up approach to transform narrative into a form of rhythmic and repetitive scat-song more akin ...