Meeting Summaries

“Poetry speaks what Silence intends” / Section Mtg. with Robert McDermott & Bruce Donehower

"Spiritual Friendship" / photo bdonehower   Dear Friends, At our Section meeting on May 2, 2026 (birthday of Novalis), Robert McDermott and I teamed up for another collaborative presentation on the theme of "east" and "west," so called.  I made a recording of...

Grace & The Beautiful Sciences

Grail Moon at Eastertide 2026   Grail Moon   The dark host sleeps in the cradle of the moon. Augury of what is to come, the sight comforts restless eyes grown weary of night that will not end. Morning, or high noon   make little difference—the mind...

Petrarch: an introduction . . .

Petrarch as Singing Tree   Dear Friends, At our February 21, 2026 Section meeting, we began an exploration of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Humanism, and the secular humanist literary tradition that is so central to our Section and its concerns. Although...

“Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing” / Part Two

The Baby Maybe Needs Something?   Rudolf Steiner's "First Address" / & Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing   Dear Friends, Although I wrote this meeting summary post four years ago in 2022 after a Section meeting where we celebrated Shakespeare's birthday,...