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Poetry
Poetry Night / June 22, 2024
"Poetry Nite" Artwork by Marion Donehower June 22, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has...
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 / Sung by Patricia Dickson (Visual Arts Section)
Patricia Dickson (Visual Arts Section) performed the song "Tyger Tyger" at the 2024 North American Conference...
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”
A book prepared especially for the 2024 North American Section Conference Dear Friends, Here is the book...
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” / Essay
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...