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  ABOUT ME
  Saleem Abdal-Khaaliq
  Post Office Box 947
  Great Barrington, MA 01230
  nsa@vgernet.net
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          AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY
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  Place of Birth:  Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  Occupation:      Residence Director/Career Advisor
                   Writer/Poet-Wordsmith
  Employer:        Simon's Rock College of Bard
  Children:        Ajene, Dawud, Phaedra, Malachi
  Education:       Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
                   University of Massachusetts - Amherst
                   Howard University, Washington, D.C.
  Memberships:     Poet's Niche
                   The Academy of American Poets
                   International Black Writers & Artists (IBWA)
  
  
  POEMS OF NOTE
  
                   baby/TALK
                   River Crossings: Voices of the Diaspora
                   IBWA (anthology)....................1994
    
                   DAWN Dried my Tears
                   On the Threshold of a Dream
                   National Library of Poetry (anthology)...1990
  
                   poem to Mourning
                   Great Poems of the Western World Vol.II
                   World of Poetry Press (anthology).....1989
  
                   A Breath of Light
                   Co-authored with M.S. Rasool
                   Bilalian Renaissance (chapbook)...........1981