Amiri Baraka’s Birthday

Amiri Baraka, August 5,1985, Boulder, Colorado – Photo: Allen Ginsberg

It’s the birthday today of the great Amiri Baraka. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, (died in 2014), he would’ve been 90 years old.

More on Amiri Baraka on The Allen Ginsberg Project – here. – and also here and here (“Counter-Poetics and Oppositional Action”)

We draw your attention to Colin Still (Optic Nerve)’s recent prize-winning documentary, “Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! – From Leroi to Amiri”

See a variety of related Baraka footage – here

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