A selective bibliography of open access articles on Amiri Baraka, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Creeley, Robert. Noted poet reviews Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Edited by Paul Vangelisti (Marsilio Publishers). December 1996/ January 1997 issue of Boston Review
Fleming, Robert. "Trouble man: Amiri Baraka has been under siege recently for his poem 'Somebody Blew Up America.' But long before the latest firestorm, this literary legend has made controversy a way of life."(includes selected bibliography). Black Issues Book Review, March-April, 2003
Prevallet, Kristin. "The Exquisite Extremes of Poetry (Watten and Baraka on the Brink)" On Barrett Watten, Amiri Baraka, and free speech. In Jacket Magazine #12, July 2000
Thompson, Deborah. Keeping up with the Joneses: The naming of racial identities in the autobiographical writings of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, Hettie Jones, and Lisa Jones, In College Literature, Winter 2002
Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi. Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller, in College Literature, Winter 1999
Won-gu Kim, Daniel. "In the tradition: Amiri Baraka, black liberation, and avant-garde praxis in the U.S" In African American Review, Summer-Fall, 2003
Woodard, Komozi. Book review of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka & Black Power Politics (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999) In Civil Rights Journal, Fall, 1999
Many additional free critical articles on Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) can be found by searching www.findarticles.com
An introduction to Amiri Baraka plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
An extended, introductory article on Amiri Baraka's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
A biography of Amiri Baraka from Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
An introduction to Amiri Baraka from the Academy of American Poets
A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement, at the Academy of American Poets
A very brief biography of Amiri Baraka from the Black Collegian Online
Issues and questions for teachers and readers of Amiri Baraka's poetry, from Heath guides
A brief introduction to LeRoi Jones from The Beat Page
The history of Circle magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944
A site from the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Gates, David. Author David Gates writes about the influence of the Beats on younger writers, in salon.com
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
"The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change." Online exhibit of objects and books from the Univ. of Virginia Library, Special Collections Dept.
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats which puts Beat events in the context of cultural history
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The NY Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by writers and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL (removed)
The official Amiri Baraka web site has published recent works and photos
A list of primary and selected secondary works for Amiri Baraka, from Professor Paul Reuben's bibliography web site
A thorough list of web resources for African American writers and literature, from the Bluefield State College Library
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