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poet, activist

 

Recent stories by and about Amiri Baraka

How I met Amiri Baraka

At an award event, he looked at my friend and I like we were just girls going to Howard looking for husbands. Silly really, but whatever. He’s mean, but in such an intellectual way, that you aren’t offended.

A story about Amiri Baraka

So I met Amiri Baraka at the Dodge Poetry Festival in 2002. That was when he read the infamous poem, Somebody Blew Up America.


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