Revolutionary Art For Cultural Revolution!
Amiri Baraka
Thursday, 30 Jan 2003 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Amiri Baraka, dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer, is the Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Writing as LeRoi Jones during the Beat movement in the late 1950s, he founded the Beat literary journal, Yugen, and won an Obie for his play, Dutchman. Best known as a black nationalist writer and activist in the 1960s Black Power movement, he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction.
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