Goetheanum Dear Friends, At the very beginning of the COVID crisis, Novalis entered our North American Section work. Much to my surprise! During the first year of COVID, a very dedicated group of Section members and friends met weekly on Zoom for more than a...
"Feuervogel" by Marc Chagall, 1945 "WERELDOORLOG 1917" "World War 1917" Dear Friends, Belgian poet and Section representative Wilbert Lambrechts is one of the eleven Section poets who participated in an All Souls Poetry Night that originated in Dornach,...
"Bird at American River" / photo by Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, Jeffrey Hipolito gave a presentation with this title "Owen Barfield and the 'Meaning' Crisis" at our Section meeting on December 7, 2024. Jeff is a member of the Section leadership team, and, as...
"Flight into Egypt" / Giotto "Dante and Giotto; A Conversation" by Albert Steffen The most wonderful example of how a poet and painter, complementing each other in word and picture, can learn from one another is perhaps that of Dante and Giotto. A...
Artwork: "Die Feuerpredigt" by Marion Donehower Lecture Eight World History in the Light of Anthroposophy With a Brief Literary Critical Commentary A Presentation to the Faust Branch Of Work Arising from the Section for the Literary Arts and...
At the Section meeting on June 11, 2022 I gave a lecture presentation on American poet, playwright, biographer, and impresario Percy MacKaye, along with a look at the extended MacKaye family: Steele MacKaye, Arvia MacKaye, Christy MacKaye, Robin MacKaye, Marion...
John the Baptist Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised these lectures for distribution to a wider public, especially for the...
"Writing on the Wall; Dornach Hill, 2024" / photo Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, On November 2, 2024 friends and members of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities celebrated a very special All Souls with a poetry night. Ten Section poets read...
“Jeffrey Hipolito has produced a meticulous analysis of the creative oeuvre of Owen Barfield, the man known as ‘the first and last Inkling.’ While I was familiar with Barfield’s philosophy, I knew little about his extensive creative output; Hipolito has...
"Planning Ahead" Photo by Elliot Tripp October 14, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night at which friends and members of the Section read original poetry. Poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems, if there is...
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