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gwheezie

(3,580 posts) Thu Jan 9, 2014, 05:34 PM Jan 2014

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/01/hold_hold_hold_amiri_baraka_former_nj_poet_laureate_and_prolific_author_dead_at_79.html

I met the man several times and was lucky enough to spend a few hours talking to him about poetry and civil rights decades ago. I lived in Newark during the riots and the rise of the black power movement.

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Amiri Baraka died, rip, great activist and human [View all] gwheezie Jan 2014 OP

Shit. He was the advisor to my first college literary magazine KamaAina Jan 2014 #1

A very generous human being gwheezie Jan 2014 #2

I was hoping to catch him the next time DUTCHMAN played in NYC TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #3

Farewell, Poet. nolabear Jan 2014 #4

my student posed for a pic with him NJCher Jan 2014 #5

Rest in peace, wonderful poet LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #6