April is National Poetry Month, and today we celebrate by remembering the work of poet Amiri Baraka.
Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones), was an American writer of poems, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka’s career spanned nearly 50 years, and his themes range from black liberation to white racism. In the African-American community, some compare Baraka to James Baldwin and recognize him as one of the most respected and most widely published black writers of his generation. (via Wikipedia)
We honor the occasion with five excellent Amiri Baraka poems…
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In Memory of Radio
Amiri Baraka
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S.O.S. Poems 1961-2013
SNIPPET:
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
(Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)
What can I say?
It is better to haved loved and lost
Than to put linoleum in your living rooms?
Am I a sage or something?
Amiri Baraka Poems
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