New! D.H. Reads Her Work Aloud

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 About Me

 

I’m a poet and novelist living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.   Have a background in critical studies, particularly of African-American poets.  Besides seven books of poetry, my work includes a fiction trilogy, short stories, essays, and a musical drama.  I find inspiration in my neighborhood, politics, art, and nature.  I call the street “my Muse.”

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Poetry

anthologies

 

poem, home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica 

(Paper Kite Press, 2009)



Paumanok: Poems and Pictures of Long Island
(Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009)


Talking Through the Door: An Anthology of Contemporary Middle Eastern American Writing
(Syracuse University Press, forthcoming 2009)


Long Island Sounds
(NSPS Press, 2009, 2008)


Writing Outside the Lines
(Wild Side Press, 2009)


Inclined to Speak
(Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2008)


Language for a New Century
(Norton, 2008)


Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War
(Fulcrum Publishing, 2008)


Primal Sanities! A Tribute to Walt Whitman -- An Anthology of Poems and Essays
(Allbook Books, 2007)


We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon
(Interlink, 2007)


Streets of New York
(P&Q Press, 2005)


Off the Cuffs
(Soft Skull Press, 2003)


Tokens
(P&Q Press, 2003)


The Company We Keep
(Poet Warrior Productions, 2003)


Poetry in Performance
(CCNY Festival Publications, 1975-2006)
Nos. 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 11, 10, 9, 8, 3


The World Healing Book
(Iceland: Beyond Borders, 2002)


The Poetry of Arab Women
(Interlink, 2001)


Snake Pit City
(Diamond Hitch, 2001)


Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry
(University of Utah Press, 1988; rpt. Interlink, 2000)


A Different Path
(Ridgeway Press, 2000)


Travelers’ Tales: A Woman’s World
(Traveler's Tales, 1995)


Food for Our Grandmothers
(South End Press, 1994)


The World of Brooklyn
(Confrontation Press, 1988)


American Poetry Anthology
(American Poetry Association, 1988)


Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks
(Third World Press, 1987)


Poets for Africa
(World Harvest, 1986)


Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch
(Steppingstones, 1985)


Brooklyn and the World
(Confrontation, Nos. 25-26, 1983)


Malcolm X: A Tribute
(Steppingstones Press, 1983)


And Not Surrender: American Poets on Lebanon
(Arab American Cultural Foundation, 1982)


Mosaic: Poems from an IWWG Workshop
(International Women's Writing Guild, 1982)


Paradise ’80
(Bernhardt Press, 1980, pvt., n.a.)


Womansong
(Poet’s Press, 1976)


Group 74: Poems from the New York Poets’ Cooperative
(1974, pvt.)