Overview :Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (1940 - 2016) was a trailblazing Muslim American poet whose distinctive voice echoes the Romantics, the Beats, the S... Read More
Overview :The Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Ecstatic Poetry Prize ran its inaugural competition in 2024-2025, as a joint Ecstatic Exchange and Lote Tree Pre... Read More
Overview :Poetic inspiration continues to be a mystery to me, but I am its deep advocate, and hold to its irrational and shady acreage like a greedy r... Read More
Overview :As Muslims who pray the five obligatory prayers each day of our lives, when able we orient ourselves toward Mecca, located in what is now Sa... Read More
Overview :There are among us luminous beings who maintain that what we might taste of the Garden of Paradise and what we might suffer of the Fire of H... Read More
Overview :Poems of Sufi Devotional nature, infused with the lights of nature, and praising and loving Allah The God of nature, and of all, each thread... Read More
Overview :THE MUSIC SPACE, written in 2001, is a series of poems most acutely attuned to the sounds of our universe, composed for the most part while ... Read More
Overview :IN THE REALM OF NEITHER: I had a dream just before waking of a shelf filled with books, and I was reading the titles when a spotlight hit th... Read More
Overview :This poem was suggested in a flash by a paragraph in Michael McClure's book, "Scratching the Beat Surface," in which he quotes Ernst Haekel ... Read More
Overview :Chants for the Beauty Feast are poems in celebration of our breathing, living, daring and imaginal beauty, in this world with all its aches ... Read More
Overview :These are poems written over nearly a year in 1996, ecstatic, bewildered, exploratory, celebratory, remembering Allah in all the usual and u... Read More
Overview :THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES is a book of visionary poems mindful of the story of Sayyedina 'Isa (Jesus), peace be upon him, who one day pas... Read More
Overview :A MADDENING DISREGARD FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME: While we are indeed born into time, and at death we slide out of time altogether into eternit... Read More
Overview :"White noise" is "a random signal with a constant power spectral density," says Google. "Such a signal is heard as a hissing sound, resembli... Read More
Overview :This may be my most personal book, as I wrote this collection of poems as an attempt to definitively and honestly connect in a deep way with... Read More
Overview :This collection from 2013 continues the intended trajectory of a lifetime's work that celebrates and posits the direct perception that The D... Read More
Overview :Here's the classic tale of Ala-udeen (Arabic pronunciation, meaning The Glory of the Way) and the well-known genie (or jinn) in the magic la... Read More
Overview :This is a series of imagistic and light-drenched poems written each day or night of the fast of Ramadan, 2011, here presented in consecutive... Read More
Overview :The pleasure of feeling the poem discovering itself is always a particular joy in reading this poet -- especially so because the voyage of d... Read More