Nonfiction

essays (selected list)

AL JADID (No. 46/47, Winter/Spring 2004, Review of Conversation with a Stonemason; No. 40 (Summer 2002), “Gibran’s ‘The Prophet,’ Outside the Canon of American Literature”; No. 29 (Fall 1999), “On Nawal-el-Saadawi”; No. 22 (Winter 1998), N. Handal and L. Diab, interview and review of Country: An Organic Poem; THE AMERICAN VOICE (No. 29, 1992); ARARAT (32, No. 126, Spring 1991); BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE FORUM (16, No. 3, 1982); CALLALOO (FORTHCOMING); COLORADO REVIEW (No. 1, Spring/Summer 1989); CONFRONTATION (86/87, Spring/Summer 2004; 51, Summer 1993); EAST HAMPTON STAR (1990s, several “Guestwords” columns); EMILY DICKINSON INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN (7, No. 1, May/June 1995); FOR NOW (undated, No. 15, “On the Poetics of Charles Olson”); GREENFIELD REVIEW (11, Nos. 1 & 2, 1983); HOME PLANET NEWS (various issues, 1980s-PRESENT); HUMANITIES (15, No. 3, May/June 1994); LANGUAGE AND STYLE (Vol 6, No. 3, Summer 1973); MELUS (12, No. 3, 1985); NETWORK (International Women’s Writing Guild, 1980s, articles, column, “Reaching Out”); NEWSDAY (1990s, several articles); NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 11, 1979); PAINTBRUSH (Spring, 1991); SHABDAGUCHHA (43/44, Jan.-June 2009); SISTERSONG: WOMEN ACROSS CULTURES (Vol. 1, 1, Fall 1992); SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY (No. 48, Nov. 2008, No. 46, March 2008, review-essay of Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak); STUDIES IN BLACK LITERATURE (8, No. 1, Spring 1977); TIME CAPSULE (7, No. 1, 1983); VORT ( 2, No. 3, 1974); WESTERN JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES ( 9, No. 2, Summer 1985); several articles); WESTSIDER (Interviews: March 18-24, 1999; Sept. 16, 1982).