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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, [1] was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.
The poem sparked the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in poetry. [1] " Black Art" was published in The Liberator in January 1966, and subsequently re-published in numerous anthologies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The poem is described as one of Baraka's most expressive political poems, as it uses sharp language, onomatopoeia and violence, yet it is one of ...
The Cricket, subtitled "Black Music in Evolution", was a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal and A. B. Spellman. [1] Baraka has said: "Larry Neal, AB and I realized the historical influence of music on African /Afro American Culture. I saw the magazine as a necessary dispenser of this influence as ...
LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, editors, Black Fire, an anthology of African-American poetry Phyllis McGinley , editor, Wonders and Surprises , anthology for juveniles, including poems by Elinor Wylie , E. B. White , Langston Hughes and T. S. Eliot
Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet and dramatist; Marcin Baran (born 1963), Polish poet and journalist; Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator; Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer; Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's author
Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) (1934–2014) Coleman Barks (born 1937) Joel Barlow (1754–1812) Anita Barnard (born 1960) Mary Barnard (1909–2001) Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) Jim Barnes (born 1933) Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942) Catherine Barnett (born 1960) Laird Barron (born 1970) Bertha Hirsch Baruch; Todd Bash (born 1965) Ellen Bass ...
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
Imamu Amiri Baraka, formerly "LeRoi Jones", Reggae or Not! [21] Ted Berrigan, In a Blue River; Robert Bly, The Man in the Black Coat Turns [21] Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems 1926–1977 [21] Joseph Payne Brennan, Creep To Death; Joseph Brodsky: Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980, translation by Alan Meyers.