PUBLICATIONS & RECITATIONS

Published by NYRB Classics

Recent journal publications:

Literary Hub. Rumi’s Revolution and Formative Friendship with Shams. March, 2022

The Markaz Review. Three Poems from Gold. March, 2022

Published by Columbia University Press, featuring poems and essays by
Jaques Derrida, Orna Ophir, Sara Nusseibeh, Nils F. Schott, Hent de Vries,
and Haleh Liza Gafori.

Best of American Poetry, Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa.
New Persian Poetry, Edited by Haleh Liza Gafori (aka Haale)

The opening poem from GOLD, recited Dec 15, 2021 at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, recited and sung, with a short exploration of the phrase “aabeh hayat",” the love and life-force at the root of the root of the root of our beings.

"Orange Alert" Written and recited by Haleh Gafori on Sept 22, 2012 in Assisi, Italy at Fetzer Institute's Global Gathering of Love and Forgiveness http://www.HalehGafori.com http://TheMastMusic.com "Orange Alert" c. 2010. All rights reserved. Full text... We're on orange alert again I hear as I cross the East River and the winter sun beams its blinding white light across the jagged surface of the water.

Recited at Fetzer Institute’s Global Gathering in Assisi, Italy.

The American Dream, on steroids.

An ode to pine pollen, and a love letter to existence. Recited at the Jean Cocteau Theater for Worlds through Words, in Santa Fe, NM.