Our meetings for the year 2023 concluded with a Poetry Night & New Moon Salon. Several times each year, the...
Poetry
Parzival’s Quest
A video made to celebrate the May 2023 Grail Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The video...
Poetry Night / June 25, 2022
“Poetry arises from the natural action of the human spirit. Does not every human being strive and compose at every...
Memory, Transcendence, Clairvoyant Insight
"Fog on the Elbe" / photo by Bruce Donehower “Forget” / A Moon Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
“Two Songs” by William Blake
At a Section Salon in December 2019, Patricia Dickson sang two songs from the poetry of William Blake’s Songs...
A Carole of Poets: Advent 2021
“The Birds Can Do Nothing But Sing” / A SECTION POETRY READING On December 18, 2021, the Section for the Literary Arts...
“Celebrating the Mountain” / All Souls, 2021
“The Poets' Path / Entering the Mountain” Photo by Bruce Donehower “Celebrating the Mountain” This 30-minute...
Philip Thatcher, North American Poet
“Reading the River” photo by Bruce Donehower "At a Glance . . .” On Saturday October 30 poet Philip Thatcher gave a...
Performance Video/A Poem by Johann von Goethe “Welcome and Departure” (“Wilkommen und Abschied”)
In 1770-1771 Goethe, twenty-one years old, lived in Strasbourg as a law student. He had recently recovered from a near...
“Hearing Rilke”
The Tower of Muzot, where Rilke completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus in 1922 An Essay on the...
“Alle Menschen” by Novalis
At the meeting of the local Section group on April 18, 2020, we discussed one of the very last poems that Novalis...