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...
"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...
"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...
"Spirits of Place" / Photo by Elliott Tripp Dear Friends: Section friend and member Susan Koppersmith put together a PDF collection of poems read in Toronto on Day Seven of the eight-day 2024 North American Section Conference. Here is a link to the PDF....
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...
German Graffiti Pencilled on Wall of Villa Farnesina, Rome. Written after a Sack of Rome. (photo: Bruce Donehower) Dear Friends, Here is the Schedule for the Section Zoom meetings that originate on the San Juan Heights on the American River in Northern...
"The Dawn of the Beautiful" Dear Friends, While a full report and a "Proceedings of the Conference" lie yet ahead, here are recordings of the two lectures that began our eight-day 2024 North American Section Conference. I was fortunate to have pushed all...
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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