Poet Amiri Baraka, who lost his post as New Jersey’s poet laureate because of a controversial poem about the 9/11 terror attacks, died Thursday, his agent said ...

Never shy about his revolutionary views, Amiri Baraka gave New Jersey’s governor fair warning of possible fireworks when he was named the state’s poet laureate. “You’re gonna catch hell for this,” ...

Amiri Baraka, here participating in a Newark Museum panel discussion about the social, political and cultural climate of the 1950s, has died at the age of 79. (Matt Rainey/Star-Ledger file photo) ...

On January 9, 2014, we lost activist and writer Amiri Baraka. In many of their remembrances of Baraka’s life, cultural critics, scholars, and fellow poets have celebrated Baraka as a revolutionary ...

For the late poet Amiri Baraka, poetry was about the sound of the words — that the poems should come alive when they were read aloud. "I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can — from the ...