art ~ spirit ~ transformation
e*lix*ir

e*lix*ir #16
Twin Birthdays 2023
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Editorial

• The Art of a Loving Correspondence

The Writing Life

• Trust in Poetry by Tami Haaland

Features

• The Beautiful Foolishness of Things, A collaborative work by poet Sandra Lynn Hutchison, composer Margaret Henderson, and painter Inger Gregory
• Writing Music for The Beautiful Foolishness of Things, by Margaret Henderson

Poetry

• Heather Anne Hutchison
• Victor Kulkosky
• Linette Kuy

Essays

• The Art of Losing by Victor Kulkosky
• Yearning for Water: The Story of a Traveling Quilt by Bradford Miller

Personal Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• Fire and Paradise by James Andrews

Letters

• Dreaming of a Better Iran: A Letter to Our Fellow Citizens by a Few Bahá’í Students

Translations

• “I Want to Walk With You” translated by Bashir Sayyah

Comics

• Ruhi & Riaz by Eira

Voices of Iran

• Keeping the Eternal Garden by Maryam Afzal and Saam Mozafari
• Mrs. Mansouri’s Mission
• Nothing but the Sanctity of the Desert
• Five Days

Interviews

• Art and the Creative Process: An Interview with Hooper C. Dunbar by Nancy Lee Harper
• An Interview with Erfan Hosseini, Santur Player by Mehrsa Mastoori

Arts

• Paintings by Hooper C. Dunbar

State of the Art

• Books for Children by Allison Grover Khoury

Looking Back on Books

• Forty-eight Fragments by Imelda Maguire
• The Divine Melody: Song of the Mystic Dove by Lorraine Hétu Manifold
• Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright
• Soul of the Maine House by Bradford Miller

Films

• ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in France by Perry Productions


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issue #16, Twin Birthdays 2023


“Moonscape” (1999), Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x18", Hooper C. Dunbar

“...among His signs is the dawning sun of His knowledge, and the rising moon of His arts and skills....” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá