* 1994: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Komunyakaa at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012 ; his book The Chameleon Couch was nominated for the poetry award. Yusef Komunyakaa ( born April 29, 1947 ) is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Yusef Komunyakaa is currently a professor in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

* Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch

" Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon.

* Yusef Komunyakaa, MA, 1981, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

* Yusef Komunyakaa ( B. A.

Other prominent Vietnam War poets include W. D. Ehrhart, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Bruce Weigl.

Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, Dave Douglas ( trumpeter ), Yusef Komunyakaa, Trisha Brown, Tania Leon, Roberto Juan Rodriguez, Makoto Fujimura, Juan Sanchez, Jim Clark, Jude Tallichet, Laiwan Chung, Min Xiaofen, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, William Parker ( musician ), David S. Ware, Assif Tsahar, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Jeanne Lee, Miya Masaoka, George Lewis ( trombonist ), Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurthi, Wang Ping ( author ), Luis Francia, Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Kathleen Supové, Jennifer Choi, Craig Taborn, Bridget Kibbey, Jade Simmons, Arto Lindsay, Thurston Moore, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, Humanfolk, Mephista.

In 2010 Music Theatre Group produced two residencies of Saturnalia a new music theatre work, composed by Ibarra, written by Yusef Komunyakaa, directed by Daniel Fish and music directed by John diPinto.

Noted authors who have been associated with the conference over the years include Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Dean Young, Selden Edwards, Evie Shockley, Cornelius Eady, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kevin Young, Li-Young Lee, Michael Chabon, Richard Ford, Amy Tan, Robert Stone, Alice Sebold, Janet Fitch, Kris Saknussemm, Ayelet Waldman, Louis B. Jones, Jay Gummerman, Jamie Ford, and Meg Waite Clayton.

* Yusef Komunyakaa

Where earlier work primarily championed a white, agrarian past, the efforts of such poets as Dave Smith, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jim Seay, Kate Daniels, James Applewhite, Betty Adcock and Rodney Jones have opened up the subject matter and form of Southern poetry.

Among those celebrating Levine's career by reading Levine's work were Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, E. L. Doctorow, Charles Wright, Jean Valentine, and Sharon Olds.

* Yusef Komunyakaa ( 2003 )

The Academy ultimately responded by designating several new chancellors, including African-American poets Lucille Clifton and Yusef Komunyakaa, and by making changes in its procedures.

** Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa ( Wesleyan University Press )

Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serialism only for some of their compositions or only for some sections of pieces.

Yusef denies it, but warns Scobie that the British have sent a new inspector specifically to look for diamonds ; Scobie claims this is a hoax and that he doesn't know of any such man.

We are led to believe that Yusef arranged the death of Ali, although Scobie blames himself for the matter.

* Yusef – Syrian local black marketeer who blackmails Scobie after finding a letter in which he expresses his love for Helen.

Yusef Lateef ( born William Emanuel Huddleston ; October 9, 1920 ) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.

His 1987 album Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.

WGBH Jazz, a popular public radio from Boston, Massachusetts, aired a special-documentary program for Lateef, titled A portrait of saxophonist Yusef Lateef in his own words and music.

* Concerto for Yusef Lateef ( Atlantic, 1988 )

By the early 20th century, the first generation of Egyptian composers, including Yusef Greiss, Abu Bakr Khairat, and Hasan Rashid, began writing for Western instruments.

** Yusef Lateef for Yusef Lateef's Little SymphonyL

The surviving son was called Zia-ol-din Yusef and Jami wrote his Baharestan for this son.

A painting depicting Yusef Khan on his way to an encampment for the durbar ( court ) | durbar held at Fatehgarh, in 1859.

during the Thiele years is recognised as a key outlet for free jazz and the broad musical movement ( sometimes referred to as " The New Thing ") that was spearheaded by artists including John Coltrane and his wife Alice, Albert Ayler, Freddie Hubbard, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and McCoy Tyner.

* Eddie Bo Smith Jr. as Yusef Reed: Right hand man for Collier at C-Systems Research.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Arafat and his top aide Abu Jihad were detained in Syria when a pro-Syrian Palestinian leader, Yusef Urabi was murdered.

" It was removed from subsequent pressings after Cat Stevens ( now Yusef Islam ) made comments implying he agreed with a death Fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.

His full name was Sidi Mohammed ben Yusef, or Son of ( Sultan ) Yusef, upon whose death he succeeded to the throne.

Al-Muqri resigned the post two years later, but was reappointed to it by Sultan Yusef, and was kept in the position by his successor, Sultan Muhammad, when he ascended the throne in 1927.

The villagers offered " equally good land " in the area, but when Moshe Sneh ( Maki ) and Yusef Khamis ( Mapam ) brought the case to the Knesset on behalf of the villagers, the Knesset established that there was no such land.

Some Lebanese sources, such as Giuseppe Simone Assemani and Maronite bishop Yusef al-Dibs believe he was buried Arethusa or modern-day al-Rastan along the Orontes River in Syria, while others like Jesuit priest Henri Lammens claim he is buried in Brad village to the north of Aleppo.

He requested reinforcements from Barron but instead received word that US Consul-General Tobias Lear was negotiating peace with Yusef Caramelli.

Muhammad XII was survived by two sons ; Yusef and Ahmed.

On 3 June, the Afghan camp at Yusef Khel was seized by two platoons from the 1st / 25th London and two troops from the 37th Lancers supported by a section of guns from the 89th Battery, and shortly afterwards the armistice was signed.

The new city was founded and financed during the Qajar era by an Iranian Georgian Yusef Khan Gorji, a pro-Iranian Georgian warlord given refuge by Agha Mohammad Khan ( Persian: محمد خان قاجار )‎‎ ( 1742 – 1797 ) following a territorial dispute with his cousins who were supported by Imperial Russian Empress Catherine the Great.

Abu Anas al-Shami () was known as Omar Yusef Juma ' a () prior to joining Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Jama ' at al-Tawhid wal Jihad group in Iraq.

He was a good friend of Yusef Islam ( Cat Stevens ).

In 2003, Chief Rabbi Cohen and Maurice Motamed met with President Khatami at Yusef Abad Synagogue which was the first time a President of Iran had visited a synagogue since the Islamic Revolution.

The 1980s was a time of much racial tension in the city, including the highly-publicized murders of three African Americans in " white " neighborhoods in separate incidents: Willie Turks in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn in 1982 ; Michael Griffith in Howard Beach, Queens in 1986 ; and Yusef Hawkins in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood in 1989, in addition to the much-publicized " subway vigilante " shootings by Bernhard Goetz in 1984.

Around this time, professor Yusef al-Yusef was assassinated in Aleppo, an event often cited by secular activist Wafa Sultan as the reason she came to oppose Islam in general.