2025 Saturday Poetry Book Club / Hosted by George Reitnour

Artwork: “Still Life” by Suri Oru

Dear Friends,

Section friend and member George Reitnour in Pennsylvania shares this information about a monthly Saturday Poetry Book Club. New participants are welcome!

“The Saturday Poetry Book Club occurs in-person and on Zoom one Saturday each month from 8AM-9:30AM Pacific time.

 

“To receive monthly notification of Saturdays Monthly Poetry Book Club live and zoom gatherings, featuring reviews of books of poetry by poets influenced by anthroposophy (book suggestions welcome) and writing exercises from Paul Matthews’ Sing Me the Creation, email George at reitnour@reitnour.com”

 

Contact George for the Zoom Link. Email George at reitnour@reitnour.com

More Information from George about the Poetry Book Club:

We currently send meeting announcements to 46 interested people as well as placing more general announcements on a few local Facebook and Neighborhood groups. Poets and poetry lovers from Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada, Washington State, New York, Switzerland, and elsewhere have participated via Zoom. We warm up with writing exercises from Sing Me the Creation by Paul Matthews, and then review the poetry book(s) of the month (you need not acquire any book until it is your turn to lead a review). There is still time to sign up to select your favorites from our attached reading list of 29 poets.

Monthly Saturdays Book Club: 07-27-2024 (begins) – 06/27/2026 (ends). Meets 11:00AM-12:30PM EST.

Click here for Poetry Book Club Reading List

Poetry Book Club will meet on 08/30/2025 at 11AM-12:30PM EST. We’ll review Donald Davidson’s The Twelve Senses (2022) and Una Kobrin’s Words Between Darkness & Light (2023). Come in-person to 151 Saylors Mill Rd, Pottstown, PA (no reservation necessary) or on Zoom; see link above.

Each month, we review poetry book(s) of the month (you need not acquire any book until it is your turn to lead a review). There is still time to sign up to select your favorites from our attached reading list of over 30 poets. Here is our schedule for the remainder of 2025-2026:

9/27 George Reitnour will review Gabriel Bradford Millar’s Crackle of Almonds (2012) and we need volunteers to review Jakob Ziguras’s Chains of Snow (2013) and/or Venetian Mirrors (2024) and/or Richard Steel’s Beneath the Knowing Stars (2024) and/or Christian Morgenstern’s We Have Found a Path (circa 1914).

Later 2025 dates: 10/25; 11/29; 12/27. At one of these sessions, Gillian Schoemaker plans to review Paul Matthews’s The Ground that Love Seeks (1996) +/or Touching Bedrock (2023), +/or This Naked Light (2018), and at another session, George Reitnour will review Luke Fischer’s A Gamble for my Daughter (Vagabond Press, 2022).

2026 dates: 1/24; 2/28; 3/21; 4/18; 5/30; 6/27 (final meeting completes 2-year study group). If we complete our review of all of these poets, then we will come back to some that the group wishes to study more completely (e.g., where we ran out of time or where the group wants to give a second look at some poets).

The reading list is attached. Please let me know if you are aware of any other books by poets influenced by anthroposophy, which is the subject of this two-year study, and suggest other groups of poets (not sure poets can ever really be “grouped”) for study. Supporting the poets we’re studying by buying their books, if you can, would be wonderful, though you can also borrow many of the books from George.

Some of the poets we’ve reviewed have recordings posted from their readings at several meetings of the Section over the years.

 

To hear these Section meeting recordings or read the poems that are spoken, click this sentence.

 

For information on the Phoenixville poetry scene, click here. 

Saturday 10/4/2025 9AM-4PM: Ravel & Flow: Join us for a day of writing. In the morning, we’ll explore techniques such as prompt writing and reflection, and in the afternoon, meditation, rhythm & speech. In person at Reitnours’ home: 151 Saylors Mill Rd. Pottstown, PA. $30 donation (pay at door; but please come even if you cannot pay anything). We’ll have drinks & snacks, but bring your own lunch. Limited to 8 attendees. Email dagmariholl@gmail.com to attend. Hope to see you there! George Reitnour & Dagmar Holl

2026 dates: 1/24; 2/28; 3/21; 4/18; 5/30; 6/27 (final meeting completes 2-year study group).

9.29.24 / rev. 8.27.25