In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) who was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_at_Buffalo'>University at Buffalo</a> and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University'>Stony Brook University</a>. He received the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Beyond_Margins_Award'>PEN/Beyond Margins Award</a> in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. <a rel="payment" href="https://getlit.org/donate/">Support the show</a><a href='https://www.getlit.org/donate'>Support the show</a>

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) who was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Support the show Support the show

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) who was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_at_Buffalo" rel="noopener noreferrer">University at Buffalo</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stony Brook University</a>. He received the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Beyond_Margins_Award" rel="noopener noreferrer">PEN/Beyond Margins Award</a> in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.&nbsp;<a href="https://getlit.org/donate/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a><a href="https://www.getlit.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Amiri Baraka | “Ka’Ba”

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A weekly podcast focusing on all things poetic, poetry and poets. Each week we will feature a poet and their poem. We will be highlighting classic poets from our In-School Anthology, sharing brief bios on the poet and a spoken word reading of one of their poems. We will also be introducing contemporary poets from the greater poetry community and our own Get Lit poets into the podcast space.

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