ISIS and Trumpism: Mirror images of Each other?
Bismillah er-Rahmen er-Raheem I’ve been noting that just as ISIL or ISIS is the natu…
Essays
A Word About Collages
(Written for Wallingford Mad Poets reading, October 19, 2011) The collages on display are works I have been doing for the pa…
Choosing Islam: One Man’s Tale
I became a Muslim when it seemed I had already accepted Islam in my bones, as if bey…
Floating Lotus “Manifesto”
THEATRE IS SPACE ACTUALITY EXTENDING into transformation to dive under walls of nega…
Q-News Interview / A Sweet Interrogation
(Page 56, Q-News, Issue 367, July 2006) Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore is American Islam’s …
Some Moths and Scattered Flames
Intuitions and Enthusiasms on Language & Poetry: Luminosity YOU’LL SING A SONG You’ll sing a song from somewhere out of your d…
I’m in Love with a Panther / Life of Pi note
LIFE OF PI the Movie Just back from seeing The Life of Pi, in 3D, overwhelmed by it,…
With the Saint at the Window / A wali’s passing
In 2014, a great wali (saint) of the Moroccan desert died, at a very advanced age, …
9/11 A Little Ramshackle Shack Parts 1-4
PART 1 A little ramshackle shack on a hill blown apart by the wind door roof and wal…
Death of Ben Laden
(Note: This was first published on my blog on May2, 2011. Isis and their ilk certainly have taken on and expanded Ben Laden’s …
The Ecstatic Exchange: Words on my Life and Poetry
Bismillah er-rahman er-rahim To begin to present my life-time’s body of poetic work …
Haiku on DeenPort 1/14/07
The heart breaks to hear any news now from Iraq… good… bad… such hardship! Another: We broke in — smashed things… killed the k…