PUBLICATIONS & RECITATIONS (below)

Harvard Review, Issue 61, Too Brood and Not A Lover, Translations of poems by Rumi (avail in print)

Columbia University Press - Orange Alert in the Anthology: Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
(avail in print)

Palewell Press Lit by Lightning in the Anthology, Words that Walk through Walls (coming soon in print)

The Brooklyn Rail, Last Night in My Dream , Translation of a poem by Rumi

The Brooklyn Rail, War in Her Mouth

The Brooklyn Rail, Another Gaza Reel

Literary Hub, Essay: Rumi’s Revolution and Formative Friendship with Shams

Hyperallergic, Where the Water of Life Flows, Translation of a poem by Rumi

The Marginalian, Let’s Love Each Other, Translation of a poem by Rumi

The Markaz Review. You Found Me, Let’s Love Each Other, The Moment You Left Me Three Translations of poems by Rumi:


Published by NYRB Classics

Coming 4/22/25

Published by NYRB Classics

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.

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.