Amiri Baraka, 7th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-1-1984
Location
Batten Arts and Letters Building; Webb University Center
Author/Artist Bio
Formerly LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka has been hailed as "one of the most fascinating intellectual figures in postwar America," "the father of modern black poetry," and "one of America's most important writers." Baraka's first poetry collection, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, appeared in 1961. Two years later he published his brilliant discussion of music and culture, Blues People. Dutchman, his first play, opened in 1964 to perhaps the most excited acclaim ever accorded an off-Broadway production and received the year's Obie Award. In all, Baraka has published twenty-four plays, eleven volumes of poetry, six books of nonfiction, a novel, a story collection, and The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. He also founded Harlem's Black Arts Repertory Theater School and Newark's Spirit House. In addition to his Monday evening reading, which will open the 1984 literary festival, Baraka will present a Tuesday afternoon talk, "Literature and Reality," and answer questions from the audience.
Description
Baraka read on Monday, October 1st, 1984 at 8:00 p.m. in the Batten Arts and Letters Building.
He also spoke about "Literature and Reality" on Tuesday, October 2nd, 1984 at 2:00 p.m. in Webb University Center.
Recommended Citation
Baraka, Amiri, "Amiri Baraka, 7th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1984). 7th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 1-4, 1984. 6.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1984/6
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