TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

• Sacred Stories: Beyond Joy and Pain

Events

• Global Poetry Reading Honors ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

The Writing Life

• The Fountain and the Thirsty One by Mahvash Sabet

Poetry

• Christine Anne Pratt

• Elegy with Mourning Dove and Red-Tailed Hawk by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

• Dana Paxson

Essays

• An Opening in the Curtain by Martha Washington

Interviews

• Encountering Beauty: An Interview with Painter and Photographer Chris Page by Christine Anne Pratt

Personal Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• The Wound is Where the Light Enters by Sandra Lynn Hutchison

Artist Profile

• Interview with Mahvash Sabet by Raha Sabet Sarvestany

• Persian Poems by Mahvash Sabet

Art

• Chris Page

Voices of Iran

• Thy Court of Holiness by Mahsa Foroughian

• The Silence of Being Heard by Nazanin Eslami

• The All-Highest Paradise by Melika Rezvani

State of the Art

• Books for Children by Allison Grover Khoury

Looking Back on Books

• Pearls of Bounty and Light of the World

• Agnes Parsons’ Diary by Richard Hollinger

• ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: The Perfect Exemplar by Dariush Lami

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