Amiri Baraka's "Black Music" explodes myths about jazz criticism while celebrating #JohnColtrane, #TheloniousMonk & #SunRa. His fierce essays reveal how avant-garde jazz shaped Black consciousness in the 1960s. Required reading for music lovers. #Jazz #BlackMusic #AmiriBaraka #JazzSky #BlackBookSky
December 7, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Amiri Baraka's "Black Music" explodes myths about jazz criticism while celebrating #JohnColtrane, #TheloniousMonk & #SunRa. His fierce essays reveal how avant-garde jazz shaped Black consciousness in the 1960s. Required reading for music lovers. #Jazz #BlackMusic #AmiriBaraka #JazzSky #BlackBookSky
I’m re-reading both of these classic books at the same time. “Black Music” by Amiri Baraka and “As Serious as Your Life” by Val Wilmer #AmiriBaraka #ValWilmer #BlackBookSky #BookSky
January 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’m re-reading both of these classic books at the same time. “Black Music” by Amiri Baraka and “As Serious as Your Life” by Val Wilmer #AmiriBaraka #ValWilmer #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka
#AmiriBaraka #BOTD
Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky mix)
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#AmiriBaraka #BOTD
Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky mix)
media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka
#AmiriBaraka #BOTD
Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky mix)
media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...
#AmiriBaraka #BOTD
Black Dada Nihilismus (DJ Spooky mix)
media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...
it is funny how
even the end of the world
is a page turner
#haiku
#AmericanSentences
#Ginsburg
#poetry
#lowcoup
#AmiriBaraka
even the end of the world
is a page turner
#haiku
#AmericanSentences
#Ginsburg
#poetry
#lowcoup
#AmiriBaraka
September 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
it is funny how
even the end of the world
is a page turner
#haiku
#AmericanSentences
#Ginsburg
#poetry
#lowcoup
#AmiriBaraka
even the end of the world
is a page turner
#haiku
#AmericanSentences
#Ginsburg
#poetry
#lowcoup
#AmiriBaraka
Found this Amiri Baraka poem in a charity shop for £2.99. Absolute bargain. #thebeats #amiribaraka #beatpoet #thebeatgeneration #beatpoetry
May 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Found this Amiri Baraka poem in a charity shop for £2.99. Absolute bargain. #thebeats #amiribaraka #beatpoet #thebeatgeneration #beatpoetry
December 20, 2024 at 3:06 AM
"Place broken: their faces sat and broke each other." #AmiriBaraka
January 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Place broken: their faces sat and broke each other." #AmiriBaraka
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Amiri Baraka:
🎵 I Love Music
#AmiriBaraka
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on Bandcamp:
I Love Music, by Amiri Baraka
from the album New Poetry ~ New Music
sundazedmusic.bandcamp.com
September 28, 2026 at 8:01 AM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Amiri Baraka:
🎵 I Love Music
#AmiriBaraka
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on Bandcamp:
"My responsibility is to truth and beauty."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-...
✒ #AmiriBaraka, African American poet, playwright, and political activist, was #BOTD 7 October 1934. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-...
✒ #AmiriBaraka, African American poet, playwright, and political activist, was #BOTD 7 October 1934. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"My responsibility is to truth and beauty."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-...
✒ #AmiriBaraka, African American poet, playwright, and political activist, was #BOTD 7 October 1934. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-...
✒ #AmiriBaraka, African American poet, playwright, and political activist, was #BOTD 7 October 1934. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#bookchallenge
#AmiriBaraka
#booksky
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#bookchallenge
#AmiriBaraka
#booksky
December 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#bookchallenge
#AmiriBaraka
#booksky
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
#bookchallenge
#AmiriBaraka
#booksky
December 9, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Migrating this from Twitter. Still a highlight. The first NY Times article I have been interviewed for about one of my projects. Pretty excited! #ApolloTheater #TheBluesAndItsPeople #RussellGunn #AmiriBaraka www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/a...
Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo (Published 2023)
The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Migrating this from Twitter. Still a highlight. The first NY Times article I have been interviewed for about one of my projects. Pretty excited! #ApolloTheater #TheBluesAndItsPeople #RussellGunn #AmiriBaraka www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/a...
Amiri Baraka - Who Will Survive America?
YouTube video by Atane Ofiaja
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January 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Amiri Baraka reads Black Art
YouTube video by About Place Journal
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January 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Poet Amiri Baraka : Heathens and Devils
YouTube video by Flavatv98
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January 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Pheeroan AkLaff Ensemble w/ Amiri Baraka
YouTube video by umaxxi
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December 29, 2024 at 4:19 AM
December 7, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Air with Amiri Baraka - "Against Bourgeois Art"
YouTube video by Gin Soaked Boy
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December 31, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Literature and the Urban Experience: Amiri Baraka 1980
YouTube video by RUNewark_Dana
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January 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/05/pref...
#AmiriBaraka #PrefaceToATwentyVolumeSuicideNote #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #BlackArtsMovement
#AmiriBaraka #PrefaceToATwentyVolumeSuicideNote #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #BlackArtsMovement
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka | Poems Rethabile Likes
Baraka's 'Preface...' counts stars and holes. A father eavesdrops on his daughter praying — a landmark of Beat-era Black poetry.
po-re-li.blogspot.com
May 22, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/05/pref...
#AmiriBaraka #PrefaceToATwentyVolumeSuicideNote #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #BlackArtsMovement
#AmiriBaraka #PrefaceToATwentyVolumeSuicideNote #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #BlackArtsMovement