May  9

Events:

May 9 Exeter, NH  Poetry . Water Street . 6:30 p.m. Featuring  Grace Mattern & The Exeter High School Poets  followed by Open mic The Water Street Bookstore  125 Water Street  Exeter, New Hampshire  778-9731  

This Jest In:

May 10,Manchester SLAM FREE OR DIE presents a feature by Sue Savoy 7:00pm - 11:00pm at Milly's Tavern. There will be a poetry open mic followed by a feature and then an open poetry slam.

May 15 Newmarket, Zion Hill Poetry at The Stone Church on Granite Street Kemi Alabi features and then an Open Mic…6:30-9pm  Great food, drinks, and company1

Born:

May 9^th

John Wolcot Peter Pindar (1738 – 14 January 1819), Eng. satirist,

http://archive.org/stream/worksofpeterpind00pind/worksofpeterpind00pind_djvu.txt

John Brown 1800– December 2, 1859) US abolitionist; ( Harpers Ferry raid)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

Sir J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie (1860- 06/19/1937), Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jmbarrie.htm

Henry J. Kaiser  (1882 – 08/24/1967)  US industrialist

http://home.earthlink.net/~peterferko/keweb/aboutke/history.htm

José Ortega y Gasset 1883-Oct 12,1956 Spanish philosopher and essayist

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/grasset.htm

Austin Clarke (1896–March 19, 1974)) Irishwriter- poet,  plays, novels and memoirs.

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/Poetry/AustinClarke.html

Sven Krohn 1903-06/26/99    Fin Philosopher and parapsychologist

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/skrohn.htm

Richard Milton McKenna (1913 - Nov 1, 1964) American sailor and writer.(The Sand Pebbles)

http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mckenna/richard_mckenna.html

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Richard_McKenna

William Tenn, Philip Klass ( 1920 – Feb 7, 2010), American science fiction author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?484

http://www.philsp.com/articles/pastmasters_16.html

Richard Adams  (1920). Wash Common, England novelist
http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Adams/e/B000APX1S8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336553066&sr=8-1

Gavin Lyall 1932-01182003 British thriller writer and journalist

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/glyall.htm

Glenda Jackson  (05/09/1936 – )  English actor and parliament member
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413559/

Charles Simic (1938) Yugoslavian-born, Pulitzer, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5507/the-art-of-poetry-no-90-charles-simic

http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Simic/e/B000AQ6PE4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336552670&sr=8-1

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic

Paradise Motel

Millions were dead; everybody was innocent.

I stayed in my room. The President

Spoke of war as of a magic love potion.

My eyes were opened in astonishment.

In a mirror my face appeared to me

Like a twice-canceled postage stamp.

I lived well, but life was awful.

there were so many soldiers that day,

So many refugees crowding the roads.

Naturally, they all vanished

With a touch of the hand.

History licked the corners of its bloody mouth.

On the pay channel, a man and a woman

Were trading hungry kisses and tearing off

Each other's clothes while I looked on

With the sound off and the room dark

Except for the screen where the color

Had too much red in it, too much pink.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/arts/20070801_Simic_poems.html

Billy Joel  (1949 – )  US singer/songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/billy-joel-p4615

Jorie Graham (1951-) U.S. poet- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994

http://www.joriegraham.com/

http://www.blueflowerarts.com/jorie-graham

Joy Harjo  (1951). Native American poet

http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Harjo/e/B000AR9LDK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336553019&sr=8-1

Passed:

May 9^th

Friedrich von Schiller Johann Christoph (11/10/1759 –1805) German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/schiller.htm

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1186

               RIDDLE

   The tree whereon decay

    All those from mortals sprung,—

   Full old, and yet whose spray

    Is ever green and young;

   To catch the light, it rolls

    Each leaf upon one side;

   The other, black as coals,

    The sun has ne'er descried.

   It places on new rings

    As often as it blows;

   The age, too, of all things

    To mortal gaze it shows.

   Upon its bark so green

    A name oft meets the eye,

   Yet 'tis no longer seen,

    When it grows old and dry.

   This tree—what can it mean?

    I wait for thy reply. 

From Mary Stuart, act iii, scene 1.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6797/6797-h/6797-h.htm

"Peter Parley" Samuel Griswold Goodrich (08/19/1793 –1860) US writer /poet

http://ridgefieldauthors.wikispaces.com/Goodrich,+Samuel+Griswold

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11558/11558-h/11558-h.htm

"Uncle" John Sedgwick  Sept 13, 1813 -1864  US Union general-major

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc3/cornwall_ct1.htm

Thomas W. Higginson (12/22/1823 –1911) US Unitarian minister, writer, political activist (abolitionist), and soldier.

http://users.wpi.edu/~cityofwords/higginson.html

Nelson Algren Abraham (03/28/1901 –1981) US writer (Man with the Golden Arm)

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/nalgren.htm

Avram Davidson 23 April 1923 - 1993 US Sci-fi Writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?501

http://avramdavidson.org/

Sites:

http://www.nrm.org/

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/animals-in-the-news/100290/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5v6MeanQ28&feature=youtu.be

http://athenscentre.gr/?p=250

http://www.everettraymondkinstler.com/

http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/

History:

May 9^th

1918 Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians was published

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1945 Jersey liberated from Nazis

http://www.goodnowjerseyfarm.com/

1989 Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle

Bonus Poem:

Poem Before there was a trace of this world of men, I carried the memory of a lock of your hair, A stray end gathered within me, though unknown. Inside that invisible realm, Your face like the sun longed to be seen, Until each separate object was finally flung into light. From the moment of Time’s first-drawn breath, Love resides in us, A treasure locked into the heart’s hidden vault; Before the first seed broke open the rose bed of Being, An inner lark soared through your meadows, Heading toward Home. What can I do but thank you, one hundred times? Your face illumines the shrine of Hayati’s eyes, Constantly present and lovely. Bibi Hayati From: Women in Praise of the Sacred by Jane Hirshfield

http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/bibi_hayati/

Hayati-  arab term meaning 'life.'