Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964, and the second in 1972, Burnt Heart / An Ode to the War Dead.  Living in Philadelphia since 1990, in 1996 he published The Ramadan Sonnets, and in 2002, The Blind Beekeeper, with Syracuse University Press.  He has been the major editor for a number of works, including the poetry of Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, and the world-famous Burdah of Shaykh Busiri.  He is also widely published on the worldwide web: The American Muslim, DeenPort, and his own website: www.danielmoorepoetry.com, among others.  In 2005, The Ecstatic Exchange Series began publishing the large body of his work (58 manuscripts of poetry to date, February, 2006), beginning with Mars & Beyond, Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi, and Salt Prayers, with a republication of a revised version of Ramadan Sonnets. Throughout 2006, new works of poetry will be appear, God willing, beginning with Psalms for the Brokenhearted.

He says: “For me the province of poetry is a private ecstasy made public, and the social role of the poet is to display moments of shared universal epiphanies capable of healing our sense of mortal estrangement—from ourselves, from each other, from our source, from our destiny, from The Divine.”