Videos

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,...

“Mystery of the Two Jesus Children”

This Interpretive Commentary on a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on September 5, 1910 in Bern, Switzerland was given at a Holy Night Celebration of the Faust Branch as an offering from the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities and from the work arising from the...

“Spring has returned!” / Sonnets to Orpheus

“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde   "Frühling ist wiedergekommen" "Spring has returned!" Sonnets to Orpheus / Part 1, Sonnet 21 / by Rainer Maria Rilke   Performance at a Section salon in Ventura, CA   English Translation by Bruce Donehower....