“Dance the Orange” / Sonnets to Orpheus

  "Tanzt die Orange"  "Dance the Orange" "Sonnets to Orpheus" Part 1, Sonnet 15   by Rainer Maria Rilke Performance Version     German Text “Wartet . . . , das schmeckt . . . Schon ists auf der Flucht. Wenig Musik nur, ein Stampfen, ein Summen—:...

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2024 North American Section Conference

Announcement Artwork: "Tamalpais" by Marion Donehower   "The Genius of Language"* A North American Conference of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities A Celebration of Poetic Language and the Literary Imagination   San Francisco: September 7 -...

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2024 Section Conference / San Francisco Information

"The Youthful Poet Dreams" by William Blake SATURDAY LOCATION Swedenborgian Church 2701 Lyon Street SUNDAY LOCATION SF Waldorf High School 470 West Portal Avenue   Arrival Time for Saturday: 8:30-9:30. Coffee and snacks will be available.   Start Time for...

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“Experiencing the Word” / by Mark McAlister

Artwork: Francis Barraud (1856-1924)    August, 2024 Dear Friends, At our Section Meeting on August 3, 2024, Mark McAlister from Toronto gave a very lively and personal presentation that traced his journey with poetry, eurythmy, speech training, and literature...

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Parzival’s Quest / Poetry by Section Poets & Friends

  A video made to celebrate the May 2023 Grail Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The video includes photos of the Arlesheim grottoes  and poems by Section Poets and poet-friends of the Section. The poems were taken to the Grail Conference...

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