MUSICAL SETTINGS OF POEMS
RAINFOREST, Oratorio by Henry Brant, based
on commissioned poetry text,
Santa Barbara Arts Festival,
Santa Barbara, California, April 21, 1989
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen,
Colorado,1989
New American Music, Towson State
University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1, 1991
PILGRIMAGE, chamber piece for baritone and
chamber orchestra, by Roscoe Mitchell (Memoirs of a Dying
Parachutist), New York, June 17, 1995
LINKS, piece for sextet and baritone, by
Henry Threadgill (Links), New York, May 13, 1999
A PIECE OF COAL, for piano and baritone,
by Stephen Dickman, (Piece of Coal), New York, 2001
THE BLIND BEEKEEPER, setting for piano and
baritone, by W.A Mathieu, (The Blind Beekeeper),
New York, May 22, 2003
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COMMISSIONS (POETRY/PROSE)
POETRY
THE NEW YORK RAMAYANA, poetry narration,
commissioned by Lotus Music & Dance Studios, New York,
performed with poet as narrator, March 24, 2000
THE EAGLE DANCE: A TRIBUTE TO THE MOHAWK HIGH-STEEL
WORKERS, scenario, text, direction and narration
commissioned by Lotus Music & Dance Studios, New York,
June 21, 2001.
PROSE
THE ZEN ROCK GARDEN, A Way of Seeing (with
boxed miniature rock garden), Running Press, Philadelphia,
November 1992
WARRIOR WISDOM, Running Press, Philadelphia,
February 1993
THE LITTLE BOX OF ZEN, Larry Teacher Books,
2001
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EDITING / REWRITING
THE ADAM OF TWO EDENS–The Poems of Mahmoud
Darwish, as editor of various translators, published
by Jusoor / Syracuse University Press, 2001
THE BURDA OF SHAYKH BUSIRI In collaboration
with Hamza Yusuf, translator, co-edited with Michael Wolfe,
published as book in a case with 3 CDs, Sandala, 2003
STATE OF SIEGE, by Mahmoud Darwish, editor
of the translation by Munir Akash, published 2004.
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ANTHOLOGIES
Mark in Time: Portraits & Poetry, Glide
Publications, San Francisco, 1971
Contemporaries: 28 New American Poets,
The Viking Press, 1972,
San Francisco Oracle Facsimile Edition,
1995
Haight Ashbury in the 60's! CD Rom, Rockument,
1996
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
THE STORY OF NOAH, with illustrations by
Malika Moore, Iqra Books, Texas, 1979
THE CAGE-BIRD'S ESCAPE, with illustrations
by the author, Zahra Publications, Texas, 1981
SULAYMAN AND THE THRONE OF BILQIS, with
illustrations by Malika Moore, Zahra Publications, Texas,
1983,
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ARTICLES ABOUT WORK
Saturday Review of Books, article by Kenneth
Rexroth about American Poetry, 1965
Rolling Stone, "Floating Lotus,"
San Francisco, 1969
Festival, The Book of American Musical Celebrations,
Collier Books, (Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company), 1970
Mug Shots; Who's Who in the New Earth, Article
and bio, Meridian, World Publishing, 1972
Literary San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Nancy Peters, City Lights Books/Harper & Row, San Francisco,
1980
Saudi Gazette, "A Lone Voice,"
Julia Simpson, article on the poet, March 16, 1988
Ellipses Magazine, “Return of a Sufi,"
Princeton, NJ., Vol. V, No 5, 1996-97
The Temple, Review of “The Ramadan
Sonnets,” Karl Kempton, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer, 1999
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LECTURER/POET
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
Arab Awareness Week, featured poet with Khaled Mattawa,
and lecturer on modern poetry, April 17, 18, 1998
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico, Islamic
Symposium, featured poet and lecturer, with public reading,
July 13-19, 1998
University of Illinois, Chicago, Milad
an-Nanbi, Naqshbandi Foundation, poet and lecturer, August
15, 1998
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, Islamic
Awareness Week, Featured Poet and lecturer, November
10, 1998.
University of Illinois, Champaine/Urbana IL,
Islamic Awareness Week, Featured Poet and lecturer,
November 14, 1998
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas,
“Perceiving the Arab World & Islam,”
featured poet with Naomi Shihab Nye, poetry reading and moderator
for workshops, February 12-14, 1999
The American University at Cairo, Cairo, Egypt,
featured poet on program of Sufi poetry in English, and lecturer
on American Beat Poets, May 4, 1999
Cabrini College, Wayne, PA, reading and
performing “Millennial Prognostications” April,
18, 2000
Cabrini College, Wayne, PA, The Floating
Lotus Magic Puppet Theater performance of “TheMystical
Romance of Layla & Majnun,” February 20, 2001
University of Pennsylvania Museum, PA, with
Coleman Barks reading Rumi, as featured reader of my poem,
“Waving Hello/Waving Goodbye,” December
8, 2001
The American University at Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, A
Night of Rumi poems and a Night of Original Poetry, February
11 & 12, 2002
Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, “Mystical
Poetry and the Spiritual Imagination,” lecture
and reading, March 20, 2003
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, featured
poet, April 24, 2003
The College of New Jersey, Talk and poetry
reading, November 7, 2003
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