Every city has its bard. Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more ...

Baraka is the son of Amiri Baraka, who was named New Jersey’s poet laureate September 2002. The dad then penned a poem called “Somebody Blew Up America” that claimed Israel knew in advance about the 9 ...

Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, and Nikki Giovanni. The Any Day Now writing series is sponsored by the Friends of the Tanner ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka's caustic play about a fatal ... the white Jewish poet Hettie Jones, and ...