{"id":470,"date":"2014-01-11T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-05-11T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T02:27:26","slug":"amiri-baraka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Amiri Baraka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amiri_Baraka\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3f\/Amiri_Baraka.jpg\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/a>Amiri Baraka died on Thursday the 9th at the age of 79. While others are more qualified to speak of the man and his work, I do want to take a moment to reflect upon Baraka. It was his readings that I discovered in college that later inspired the creation of this website. He, more than other poets I had heard at the time, showed me how a poem can be transformed by a performance. I thank him for that.<\/p>\n<p>NY Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/10\/arts\/amiri-baraka-polarizing-poet-and-playwright-dies-at-79.html?hp&amp;_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and Playwright, Dies at 79<\/a><br \/>\nNPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/01\/10\/261379770\/fresh-air-remembers-activist-poet-amiri-baraka\" target=\"_blank\">Remembering Activist Poet Amiri Baraka<\/a><br \/>\nPotW.org: <a title=\"Dope \u2013 Amiri Baraka\" href=\"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=4\" target=\"_blank\">Amiri Baraka&#8217;s reading of &#8220;Dope&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nPotW.org: <a title=\"Western Front \u2013 Amiri Baraka\" href=\"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=100\" target=\"_blank\">Amiri Baraka&#8217;s reading of &#8220;Western Front&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nPotW.org: <a title=\"Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note \u2013 Amiri Baraka\" href=\"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=103\" target=\"_blank\">Amiri Baraka&#8217;s &#8220;Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amiri Baraka died on Thursday the 9th at the age of 79. While others are more qualified to speak of the man and his work, I do want to take a moment to reflect upon Baraka. It was his readings that I discovered in college that later inspired the creation of this website. He, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[101,102],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-amiri-baraka","tag-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}