Amiri Baraka with Marvin X, 11 March 2009 – Audio
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 11, 2009.
Amiri Baraka, (née Everett LeRoi Jones) author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, is a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences on his work ranging from musical artists such as John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk, to the Cuban Revolution, Malcolm X, and world revolutionary movements, Baraka is renowned as the founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s. His recent books include Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems and Tales of the Out & The Gone.
Marvin X (nee Marvin Ellis Jackmon) is a poet, playwright, essayist, educator, activist and one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement. He established Black Arts West Theatre, San Francisco, 1966 and worked at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, NY, 1968. He is the author of 30 books of poems, essays, parables and proverbs. His recent books include The Wisdom of Plato Negro, How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy and Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality.
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
Length: 1:20:25; Size: 27.7 MB