LeRoi Jones

Before long, he got hip to African American poet Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones, whose liner notes he read on a John Coltrane album.

Valentine: The Ark of Lovers Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

Before long, he got hip to African American poet Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones, whose liner notes he read on a John Coltrane album.

Archive 2007-02-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones) is widely celebrated as the father of the Black Arts Movement and is one of the most prolific and influential African-American writers of the 20th century.

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citizen in 1951, when writers such as LeRoi Jones and Frank O'Hara were just beginning to find their way.

The New Yorker Hilton Als 2010

LeRoi Jones and Allen Ginsberg discussing poetry, ca.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

It was LeRoi Jones, in fact, who first approached Ginsberg after he had read Howl, a poem that influenced him a great deal.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Writer Amiri Baraka formerly LeRoi Jones was cast as Rastaman the griot, a sort of one-man Greek chorus.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

LeRoi Jones supported Castro by this time and philosophically was moving toward Marxism.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

While the West Coast Beats were enjoying the blissful summer of love, LeRoi Jones, not yet Amiri Baraka, was badly beaten by the police during the violent riots that swept Newark in 1967.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Beat friends who had been to Cuba, including LeRoi Jones and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, had told him positive things about what was going on there.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010