All Souls Poetry Night / November 2025

"Map Discovered on Cliffs Above the Pacific Ocean" / photo bdonehower   Dear Friends, Last year we began what I hope will be a new tradition in our North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities: we celebrated All Souls with readings of original...

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Section Meeting / September 21, 2025

"Cloud HIdden, Whereabouts Unknown" / photo b donehower   Dear Friends: The Section’s Northern California group met for a New Moon Salon on September 21. This was a hybrid event: in-person and on Zoom for those far away. We discussed recent events in the Section,...

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“The Poet and the Dead” by Albert Steffen

Artwork: "Monolith X" by Marion Donehower   At the Section meeting on February 24, 2024, we discussed the topic of Literary Modernism in respect to Threshold Experiences and Soul Loss. A variety of twentieth-century modernist poets and novelists were mentioned....

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“Eros and Fable” by Novalis

Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael    Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of Eros and Fable by Novalis. This important fairytale by a poet whom...

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Goethe’s Fairy Tale

Green Snake Discovered in the Bushes at the Goetheanum; November 2024     "In my end is my beginning . . ." The Fairytale that Inspired Anthroposophy   Dear Friends, This is an unabridged version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom at the Front Range...

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