The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast ... Nobody sings anymore. But too many of Baraka’s plays or poems start with an element of truth and push it to a farcically erroneous ...
Every city has its bard. Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more ...
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New creative writing series for young people honors Larry Neal, a North Philly writer, poet, and leader of the Black Arts MovementAmiri Baraka, James Baldwin, and Nikki Giovanni. The Any Day Now writing series is sponsored by the Friends of the Tanner House and will take place at SMLC, 2946 W. Dauphin St., from 10 a.m. to noon.
Amiri Baraka has written 1 shows including Dutchman (Playwright).
A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative ... The dialogue is often terrific (Baraka was, after all, a poet) and until the climax “Dutchman” is essentially a verbal ...
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Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish ...
In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal ... the white Jewish poet Hettie Jones, and parts of the play sound like a writer speaking to a version of ...
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