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Meeting Summaries
Section Meeting / September 21, 2025
"Cloud HIdden, Whereabouts Unknown" / photo b donehower Dear Friends: The Section’s Northern California group...
“Buddhism and the Literary Imagination”
“Listen natives of a dry place from the harpist’s fingers rain” — W.S. Merwin, “The Boast” from Writings to An...
Keeping Silent / Earth Day, 2023
At our Section meeting on Saturday April 22, 2023 we shared news about events in the Section and the Class. I did not...
Introduction to Novalis
Artwork: "Blue Flower 1" by Marion Donehower A (very) Brief Introduction To the Poet Hailed Repeatedly...
Poetry Reading by Peter Rennick
Poet Peter Rennick read his "Valentine" poems at a Section meeting on February 11, 2023 in celebration of Valentine's...
Poetry Reading by Philip Thatcher
North American poet Philip Thatcher reads poems from his collections "Fine Matter" and "Good Time" that were inspired...
“Kathleen Raine; Novalis & William Blake”
A presentation given at the Section meeting on November 26, 2022. Kathleen Raine, a poet and scholar, was the founder...
Christiane Haid: “Metamorphoses of the Foundation Stone: 1913 – 1923”
A presentation given at the Section meeting on December 17, 2022.
Winter Solstice Poetry Night / December 17, 2022
“Poetry arises from the natural action of the human spirit. Does not every human being strive and compose at every...
“The Winged Lion” / Lecture by Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott joined our Section meeting on December 10, 2022 to give a presentation on "The Background to the...