Gene Gonder and Blues for Scrooge 1958
(drawing by author, circa 1958) GENE GONDER (1939?-1978?) This post is in honor of m…
Misc
Choosing Islam: One Man’s Tale
I became a Muslim when it seemed I had already accepted Islam in my bones, as if bey…
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…
Hurriyah / exhibit by Soraya Syed Sanders in the UK
Please take a moment to view photos of Soraya Syed Sander’s exhibit now up in London…
From the Soft Rope We Are / UK visit 2007
THE UK VISIT included, besides the two presentations in Norwich (Friday the 13th at …
9/11 Mohawk Eagle Dance Memoir
Jerry “Thundercloud” McDonald and Tonya Frichner 9/11 MOHAWK EAGLE DANCE MEMOIR I was on the freeway to Atlantic City on Septe…
Ramadan Sliverlight
Ah, almost speechless at the sweltering threshold of a long Ramadan fast, yet remembering not only Badr and its combatants whi…
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 …
Lailat al-Qadir
Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley has transmitted this beautiful du’a for Lailat al-Qadir (Night of Power, among the odd numbered last t…
An amazing visual adventure…
An incredible sand-painting illustrated war story for So You Think You’ve Got Talent, in perhaps Poland… [youtube=http://www.y…
Pray Afghanistan / Videoku #2
A late-night videoku (attempted spontaneously for a while in 2009), extemporized before hitting the video button (I will confe…
Honoring Our Election of Obama
This poem I present in homage to the overwhelming and outpouring national heart-energy in our election of Barack Obama to be o…