Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Amiri Baraka on his poetry and breaking rules

LeBron James and his production company Springhill Production are making history this All-Star weekend with…
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Amiri Baraka on his poetry and breaking rules

Poet E. Ethelbert Miller introduces Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) as one of the most prolific writers of the century in this 1998 edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life. They talk about the writers that influenced his work: Charlie Olson, the Black Mountain Group, Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg. Baraka reads his first published poem, "Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note." A discussion on

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