MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS is a potter, teacher, and poet. She received her doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley, and has been a member if the faculty at the universities of California and Chicago, Black Mountain College, and the City College of New York. She is author also of The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings (Wesleyan 1973) and Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America (Wesleyan 1980). Her home us in Kimberton, Pensylvania.