TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

• Weaving the Threads...

Feature

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

Reading

• Global Poetry Reading Honors ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

The Writing Life

• Translating Rumi
by Anthony A. Lee

• Joining the Circle: Art and Spirituality at Little Pond and “A Prayer in Nine Postures”

• Notes on the Poetic Process
by Michael Fitzgerald

Poetry

• The e*lix*ir Poetry Collective Writes the Creation

• James Andrews

• Harriet Fishman

• Sandra Lynn Hutchison

• A.E. Lefton

• Imelda Maguire

• YoungIn Doe

Fiction

• Ivory and Paper
by Ray Hudson

• The Bluest Part of the Sky by Tanin

Play

• Tahereh and Jamshid: A One-Act Play by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Essay

• Margaret Danner, the Black Arts Movement, and the Bahá’í Faith
by Richard Hollinger

Memoir

• An Invisible Wave
by Elizabeth M. Green

Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• Our Verdant Isle by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

• The Mystery of Proximity and Remoteness
by A. Philip Christensen

Translation

• “If I Should Gaze Upon Your Face” by Tahirih
translated by Shahin Mowzoon and Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Letters

• A Small Light in a Dark Room by Andisheh Taslimi

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

Interviews

• Painting and Interview with Shahriar Cyrus by Mehrsa Mastoori

• Art and the Creative Process: An Interview with Hooper C. Dunbar by Nancy Lee Harper

Retrospective

• Brilliant Star: Looking Back on 36 Years of an Award-Winning Children’s Magazine
by Susan Engle

Voices of Iran

• Riding a Purple Bicycle
in the City of Isfahan
by Sahba

• What Mona Wanted: A Prayer for Resilience by Kimiya Roohani

Comic

• Ruhi & Riaz by Eira

Art

• Paintings Revisited

• Textile Arts Revisited

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