art ~ spirit ~ transformation
e*lix*ir

e*lix*ir   #12
Ridvan 2021
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Editorial

• The Intimacy of Art

The Writing Life

• ‘I Go to Paper’: A Conversation with Ruth Forman by Andréana Elise

Poetry

• Anthony A. Lee

Translations

• “If I Should Gaze Upon Your Face” by Tahirih
Chinese translation by Zijing Pan DiCenzo

Essays

• In the Noble, Sacred Place: One Rainy Day in a Holy City by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Interviews

• Anne Gordon Perry on Writing for Film

Personal Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• O Nightingales of God! by James Braun

Artist Profile

• Benjamin Hatcher, Dancer by Joyce Litoff

Art

• Nadema Agard
• Beth Yazhari

Comic

• Ruhi & Riaz by Eira

Voices of Iran

• The Cherry Orchard by Paria Bakhshi
• A Wedding in Prison by Melika Rezvani

Looking Back on Books

• In the Eyes of His Beloved Servants: The Story Behind the Stories by J. Michael Kafes
• How One Jewish Woman Poet Remade the Wor(l)d: Alicia Ostriker’s The Little Space: Poems Selected and New (1989-1996) by Sandra Lynn Hutchison


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issue #12, spring 2021

Guardians of a Sacred Spot, Beth Yazhari

“...raise thou thine hands with such firm conviction as shall cause the hands of all created things to be lifted up towards the heaven of the grace of God....”
– Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf