Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World

 Poets House and City Lore held Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World in 2011. 

You can read essays written on the occasion of the conference (PDF).


Poking around the Poets House web site a little more, I found the following resources which might be of interest:

• Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole: A Reading and Conversation
• Coleman Barks on Rumi's "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing"
• Coleman Barks reads Rumi's The Masnavi
• Coleman Barks reads Rumi (different recording)