He has edited two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight works by Henry Dumas.
For example, his poem "Black Paladins" became the title track for a recording by Joseph Jarman and Famoudou Don Moye.
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His time spent on the Arabian Peninsula influenced him as well, and he eventually drew not only on black Christianity and Islam, but on Sufi mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Native American and African myths and religions.
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It was here that he met fellow teacher and poet Eugene Redmond, forming a close collaborative relationship that would prove so integral to Dumas's posthumous career.
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Writer Margaret Walker and musicians James Brown and John Coltrane proved to be major influences on his writing at this time.
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