Click Here to Register Scroll Down for Conference Schedules and Details San Francisco: September 7 - 8, 2024 Toronto: September 13 - 15, 2024 May 2, 2024 Dear Friends and Members of the Section, The Section for the Literary Arts and...
Philip Thatcher / A Poetry Reading
Poet Philip Thatcher joined our meeting to read from his books of poetry Fine Matter and Good Time. Philip's books are available: Here is a chaptered video of the Evening with Poet Philip Thatcher Purchase in Canada Les Éditions Perceval...
Poetry Reading by Nicholas Morrow
Cover Artwork: "The Watershed Angel" by Ami Spangler Section poet Nicholas Morrow read from his newly published collection of poems, The Mirror and the Muse, at our Section meeting on April 16, 2024. THE MIRROR AND THE MUSE is a collection of 130 poems...
“Why Should I Care About Novalis?”
"He hovered. like a cloud . . . like an element of nature, active in rain and sunshine." -- Rudolf Steiner, describing the Prophet Elijah; September 17, 1912 Easter - Pentecost 2024 Dear Friends, This page began as a resource page for students in the...
The Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities / by Christiane Haid
History of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science by Christiane Haid, Ph.D. (Goetheanum; Dornach, Switzerland) Dr. Haid is the present leader of the Section at the Goetheanum. Her biography is discussed in this...
Poetry Reading by Una Kobrin
Artwork:by Diane Lockett Poet Una Kobrin reads from her recently published collection of poetry: Words Between Darkness & Light Here is a recording of the reading the occurred at our Section meeting. April 6, 2024. Poem Titles in the Order of...
The Castle Siebeneichen / Where Novalis Wrote “Hymns to the Night,” “Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” & Other Works
Easter, 2024 Dear Friends, On May 2, 2021, Section friends and members celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the poet Novalis, by taking a virtual tour of the Castle Siebeneichen. A Journey to Dresden The...
“The Origin of Fairytales” by Almut Bockemühl
Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower “Is The Fairytale is Mightier Than Philosophy?” "Once upon a time there was a king who had three sons, two of whom were clever and intelligent, but the third one did not talk very much. He was slow...
“Ghost Modernism” / Initiation, Shamanism, & Soul Recovery
"Basel Fastnacht" / Photo by Bertram Mouton "Along with the feeling of dread for the advent of modernity . . . another important aspect of the modernist attitude -- perhaps the most important aspect for our purposes – is a turn to mythology and the deep past...
Poetry Night / March 16, 2024
"Still Warm but Rain" / Artwork by Diane Lockett March 22, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of the Section read original poetry and in which poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems,...