Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

PoemTalk Podcast #126, Discussing Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town),” feat. Tyrone Williams, William J. Harris, and Aldon Nielsen

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk Podcast #20, Discussing Amiri Baraka's "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart"

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Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #141: Challenge, May 19, 2007

1. Introduction (0:50): MP3
2. On Ed Dorn (1:48): MP3
3. On the trajectory of African American literary culture and the relationship between politics and art (3:14): MP3
4. Reading from Wise, Why's, Y's 1-3 (5:15): MP3
5. On Kamu Brathwaite's idea of nation language and the commodification of African American language (4:57): MP3
6. On the predicament of appropriation (2:42): MP3
7. On the dispute surrounding "Somebody Blew Up America" (7:38): MP3
8. Reading "El Reverendo Pedro Pietri" (6:20): MP3
9. Closing comments (1:52): MP3

Reading at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, October 24, 2005

Funk Lore (3:05): MP3

From Kenning, Vol. 4 No. 3 Autumn/Winter 2002-2003, Issue #12

"Wooden Negroes Appear at a Slam" and several "Low Coups" (5:08): MP3

Haveford College, March 20, 2002, with visual artist Theodore Harris

From the Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, New Jersey, 2002

Lecture (43:59): MP3
Panel Presentation (56:39): MP3

Recorded by Chris Funkhouser

At the Newark Public Libary, Newark, New Jersey, 2002

Press Conference (18:30): MP3
Speech (35:38): MP3

Recorded by Chris Funkhouser

At New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, February 10, 2000

• Lecture (36:07): MP3
• With BLUE ARK: THE WORD SHIP (1:08:57): MP3

June 14, 1985, Allentown Community Center, Buffalo

• Complete recording (1:11:53): MP3

• Amina Baraka Reading (25:00): MP3

1. Opening Remarks (1:20): MP3
2. Soweto Song (2:45): MP3
3. Slave Trade (2:24): MP3
4. I Wanna Make Freedom (1:39): MP3
5. Looking for the Lyrics (1:32): MP3
6. Class Memories (3:08): MP3
7. Oh Say Can You See (1:39): MP3
8. Nicaragua on my Mind (1:16): MP3
9. Dirge for the Lynched (1:40): MP3
10. Moving On (0:59): MP3
11. The Red (1:04): MP3
12. For the Lady in Color (2:21): MP3
13. Against Racism and Antisemitism (1:20): MP3
14. The Last Word (1:33): MP3

• Amiri Baraka Reading (45:29): MP3

1. Opening Remarks (2:33): MP3
2. Wise 1 (2:09): MP3
3. Wise 2 (1:40): MP3
4. Wise 3 (1:04): MP3
5. Wise 4 (1:24): MP3
6. Wise 5 (2:00): MP3
7. Wise 6 (1:10): MP3
8. Wise 8 (0:59): MP3
9. Wise 9 (1:07): MP3
10. Wise 10 (1:25): MP3
11. A Note to President Pasadoekeeoh and his Wise-Ass Reply (2:19): MP3
12. 1929, Why’d You Ask (2:07): MP3
13. You Gotta Have Freedom (1:34): MP3
14. Bee-Bop (for Dizzy Gillespie) (4:12): MP3
15. Bucks Problem (0:36): MP3
16. Reflections (for Thelonious Monk) (2:36): MP3
17. Sounding (10:26): MP3
18. How to Beat Reagan (5:57): MP3

Performing in 1984

featuring Steve McHall on percussion and Fred Houn on baritone sax, and courtesy of the Roulette Concert Archive
complete recording (58:04): MP3

Reading with Ed Dorn at the Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo, NY, December 8, 1978

Complete reading (21:44): MP3

1. Against Bourgeois Art (recording starts in medias res) (3:48): MP3
2. Caution, part 3 (3:50): MP3
3. I Love Music (2:15): MP3
4. War Clouds Over the World (5:03): MP3
5. Dope (6:47): MP3

Recording courtesy of Robert Creeley

Reading with Diane Di Prima, recorded by the Naropa Institute, July 26, 1978

1. Introduction (6:35): MP3
2. Statement on Art (6:17): MP3
3. Afro-American Lyric (4:13): MP3
4. Inside Out (2:32): MP3
5. I Love Music (for John Coltrane) (2:15): MP3
6. Malcolm X Remembers February '77 (7:14): MP3
7. Against Bourgeois Art (3:50): MP3
8. Dope (5:31): MP3

• Full Reading (43:31): MP3

From a Reading at San Francisco State University, 4 March 1965