The Poet Laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka defends and reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America" in New York

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The Poet Laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka defends and reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Bowery Poetry Club on October 17, 2002. Baraka, who was Everett LeRoi Jones prior to changing his name, died in Newark, NJ on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at the age of 79. (© Richard B. Levine)

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