Posts tagged "Amiri Baraka"
Amiri Baraka – “Somebody Blew Up America” – 5/19/10
Amiri Baraka somebody blew up america
Amiri Baraka’s Poetry Project reading featured on WNYC’s “Talk To Me”
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Thanks to Julia Furlan for featuring Baraka’s reading on WNYC’s “Talk To Me”!
“After 76 years of activism, award-winning poet and playwright Amiri Baraka isn’t afraid to ruffle some feathers. If he was looking to get people up in arms last week at the Poetry Project, though, not a chance – the [...]
Amiri Baraka’s “Haiti Today and Yesterday” + poems – 3/14/10
Baraka spoke and read for a benefit for Haitian earthquake relief hosted by The Poetry Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Danspace and St. Mark’s Church. The proceeds were donated to Partners In Health. This recording is about 22 minutes long. His statement on Haiti is followed by his reading of and commentary on work by Haitian writers [...]
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Photograph of Amiri Baraka taken by Arlo Quint, May 19, 2010.
Introductions for Amiri Baraka & Mark Nowak – 5/18/10
Mark Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004) and Revenants (2000), all from Coffee House Press. For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through [...]
Bonga, John Zorn, Denize Lauture, Amiri & Amini Baraka – Benefit for Haiti this Sunday!
Sunday, March 14th, 6:30 PM
A Celebration of Haitian Culture: Benefit for Earthquake Relief
Please join the Poetry Project , Danspace Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theater and St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery for a celebration of Haitian culture. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to Partners in Health: Stand With Haiti. http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti
Tickets to the benefit are [...]
Amiri Baraka & Mark Nowak
[ Wednesday, May 19, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Amiri Baraka published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. His book Blues People: Negro Music in White America, is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of Dutchman at the Cherry Lane Theatre in [...]
A Celebration of Haitian Culture: Benefit for Earthquake Relief
[ Sunday, March 14, 2010; 6:30 pm; ]
Sunday
Please join the Poetry Project, Danspace Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theater and St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery for a celebration of Haitian culture. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to Partners in Health: Stand With Haiti.
Tickets are now available, and will be available at the door.
Sliding scale admission: $20-$75 General Audience
Reserved Seating: [...]
