LeRoi Jones
LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), was a poet, writer, political activist and teacher. He was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Howard University in 1953 and published his...Read more
LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), was a poet, writer, political activist and teacher. He was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Howard University in 1953 and published his first major book of poetry, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. In 1958, he founded Totem Press, which first published works by Kerouac, Ginsberg and other lesser-known writers of the period.