Amiri Baraka

Everett LeRoy Jones, who signed himself LeRoi Jones before taking the name Amiri Baraka at the end of the sixties, was born in Newark in 1934. He attended Rutgers and Howard, served in the air force in Puerto Rico, from which he was discharged for readings judged to be communist, and became in New York a poet of the Beat milieu and an editor of magazines. He broke with that milieu in 1965. A Marxist from 1974, poet laureate of New Jersey in 2002, a post abolished the following year after a poem that caused a scandal, he taught for twenty years at Stony Brook and died in Newark in 2014.

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• TheatreDutchmanAmiri Baraka · 1964Literature