Works by authors I greatly admire

poetry by Mahvash Sabet – a Bahá’í prisoner of conscience, previously imprisoned in Iran. Her poetry collection, Prison Poems, is available through Amazon.

• At Such a Time You’ll Come

• Bear This in Mind

• Fire

• The Imaginary Garden

• The Prayer of the Tree

• Lights Out

• Day of the Imprisoned Writer: a letter to Mahvash Sabet – written by Alberto Manguel

• Mahvash Sabet transferred to hospital

• Mahvash Sabet Released From Prison – includes the poem, The Blossom

poetry by Sara –  a dear friend

• With my belovéd

poetry by Héloïse Haven – a dear friend

• Parched

poetry by Phil Wilke

• a haiku for Phil’s dad

• Elegy for a Toaster

poems by Pete Hulme – a fellow Bahá’í  and a new friend

• Dust for winds to scatter

• Mary

poetry by Ian Hamilton – one of the best poets of the 2nd half of the 20th century
– for a BBC TV documentary on Hamilton, click here. His Collected Poems is now back in print. Get it!

• Biography

• Epitaph

• Familiars

• In Dreams

• The Garden

• Home

• Poem

• Prayer

• The Birds

• The Silence

• The Storm

• The Visit

poetry by Willy Oppenheim – an American Rhodes Scholar; DPhil, Oxford

• Azan

• Solstice

poetry by Tierney Tolar, my granddaughter

• Seasons

miscellaneous

• One Today – my review of Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem of January 21, 2013

• Sullivan Ballou letter – the essense of love and sacrifice by a Civil War veteran