Author

T. M. Hudenburg

Poet, soldier, educator, and Silk Road scholar — author of the 1,080-poem Bukhara Trilogy, written from within the city that gave it breath.

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T. M. Hudenburg

About the author

T. M. Hudenburg is a poet, soldier, educator, and Silk Road scholar whose three-volume Bukhara Trilogy emerges from direct immersion in Bukhara, Uzbekistan during American Councils and U.S. Department of State English-teaching programs between 2021 and 2023.

Shaped by the classical Persian poetic tradition of Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, and Hafez — and encouraged by Uzbek, Tajik, and Afghani colleagues to carry that tradition into English — Hudenburg spent three years accumulating 1,080 poems across three structurally distinct but cosmologically unified volumes.

The trilogy draws its literary DNA from thirteen centuries of Sufi poetry, the UNESCO-protected Shashmaqam musical tradition of Central Asia, and the encounter between Persian Sufi mysticism and its pre-Islamic Zoroastrian inheritance. His short fiction has appeared in publications including the Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild.

The Bukhara Trilogy

Books by T. M. Hudenburg

A sequence of 1,080 poems across three volumes — 1,080 degrees of a single circle. Each title has its own page, including its companion sound.