Topic: Amiri Baraka
ZUMA Press Inc | 2008-12-06 22:00:35
guardian.co.uk | 2008-07-31 16:23:11
New Jersey's legislature has voted to abolish the position of state poet laureate after the governor discovered that he could not sack the current holder of the post. Amiri Baraka, who was appointed by the Democrat state governor, James McGreevey, has attracted criticism since reading his poem Somebody Blew Up America at a festival last year.
The poem, a ...
