July 15

Events:

Yidstock July 11-15 on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock

Events coming up with new details as they have been arriving:

July 16 , Rye,NH 3rd Mondays – 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Rye– Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).

July 16-20, 2012 Boston,Mass.  9:00a    Favorite Poem Project: The Summer Poetry Institute

The Boston University School of Education is accepting applications for its Tenth Annual Poetry Institute for Educators, July 16-20, at the Boston University Charles River Campus.

Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, professor of English and creative writing at Boston University, will co-direct and lead the institute, building on the principles of his Favorite Poem Project, which is committed to celebrating and documenting poetry’s place in American culture and improving its place in American classrooms.

At  Boston University School of Education, Room 130,Boston,MA

For more information, please contact Professor Lee Indrisano at 617.353.3267 or email leeindri.bu.edu.

July 18,Concord, - 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord – Poet Eleanor Cotlliss ,and Authour/ poet Eric Marsh is featured readers followed by open mic hosted by Don Kimball (prisdon.comcast.net) 224-0562,

July 16-20, 2012 Boston,Mass.  9:00a    Favorite Poem Project: The Summer Poetry Institute

The Boston University School of Education is accepting applications for its Tenth Annual Poetry Institute for Educators, July 16-20, at the Boston University Charles River Campus.

Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, professor of English and creative writing at Boston University, will co-direct and lead the institute, building on the principles of his Favorite Poem Project, which is committed to celebrating and documenting poetry’s place in American culture and improving its place in American classrooms.

At  Boston University School of Education, Room 130,Boston,MA

For more information, please contact Professor Lee Indrisano at 617.353.3267 or email leeindri.bu.edu.

July17  Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 - Enjoy a full kitchen and bar and (as always) bluegrass will follow afterwords. Contact: Beau Williams 317design.gmail.com   http://facebook.com/boetwilliams

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3023783721473&set=a.1581903595371.2081676.1469144497&type=1#!/StoneChurchRocks?sk=wall

July 19  Effingham,NH  – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Effingham - Writers' Night - Features followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, 539-7694,

July 19  Portsmouth,NH  7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – BEAT NIGHT featuring Mike Nelson, Roger Martin, Lucie Therrien, and Alicia Fisher An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word accompanied by Live Music by The Larry Simon Ensemble:–  .at: The Press Room 77 Daniel St Portsmouth NH Phone (603) 431-5186 

, open mike follows with host Tammi Truex (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

Every Thursday, Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com ,  facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )

Every Thursday  Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts"        650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

July 20, Farmington, Maine Western Maine Storytelling Festival Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:00 PM - Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:00 PMPlan a summer visit to Maine for the 2nd Annual Western Maine Storytelling Festival. Featured tellers will include Judith Black and Michael Cooper. Enjoy a showcase of regional tellers and area stories told by good talkers. Learn all about us at www.wmsfestival.org    Phyllis Blackstone  Phone: 207-860-6622  Email: phyllis.blackstone.maine.edu

July 16-20, 2012 Boston,Mass.  9:00a    Favorite Poem Project: The Summer Poetry Institute

The Boston University School of Education is accepting applications for its Tenth Annual Poetry Institute for Educators, July 16-20, at the Boston University Charles River Campus.

Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, professor of English and creative writing at Boston University, will co-direct and lead the institute, building on the principles of his Favorite Poem Project, which is committed to celebrating and documenting poetry’s place in American culture and improving its place in American classrooms.

At  Boston University School of Education, Room 130,Boston,MA

For more information, please contact Professor Lee Indrisano at 617.353.3267 or email leeindri.bu.edu.

July 21  Jaffrey NH Pot luck at 7pm, poetry open mic at 8pm, followed by a feature poet. $3 at the door MindFull Books 29 Main Street Jaffrey NH Audio Graffiti Poetry Series

http://www.facebook.com/audiograffitipoetry#!/audiograffitipoetry?sk=wall

Born:

July 15

Thomas Bulfinch, 1796 - May 27,  1867) American writer / mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4928/pg4928.html

Abraham Sutzkever, 1913 - January 19, 2010  Yiddish language poet and memoirist.

       Recognition

I

"Papa, tell me where the whole world ends!" —
Philosophically, solution I request.
Answers he: "See, where the sun descends,
Just behind that hut, beyond hill's crest."
Really? If it's so — I would not think:
Catch up with the setting sun! I run,
In a silver net of tears, up, to the brink,
Where the whole world ends and hides the sun!
Eyes are begging the Siberian God
Not to make my longing all in vain.
All the zillion years before me nod,
Trembling in the snow: Be blessed again.

II

Back of me, my father — tiny dot.
Toward the sun is galloping my heart.
Now, I run uphill and reach the hut!
Eagerness still beckons, won't depart.
To the bonfire, over howling pit,
Stretch my lips, my body would descend.
Papa, see, the world goes on a bit,
And there is no, is no, is no end.
Papa cannot hear. A star will blanch.
Papa cannot see, out of the blue,
How a boy becomes an avalanche
Made of light and wonderment anew.

Translated from the Yiddish by  Barbara and Benjamin Harshav

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5q2nb3z7&chunk.id=d0e575&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e575&brand=ucpress

Olavi Siipainen 1915-1963 Finnish writer Nuoruuden trilogia,1942

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

Iris Murdoch  (1919 – 02/08/1999)  Irish / British writer, and novelist The Sea, the Sea

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

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

Driss Chraïbi 1926-2007 French-Moroccan novelist,

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

Hammond Innes 1938-1998 Eng novelist

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

Passed:

July 15

Winthrop Mackworth Praed (  July 26, 1802 -1839)  Brit  Victorian politician/poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/everyday-characters-i-vicar

Anton Pavlovich Chechov, (01/17/1860 –1904) Russian writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?16219

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

John J. Pershing  Sept 13,1860-1948 General of the Armies of the United States

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Eric Berne (03/10/1910 –1970) US writer /psychiatrist best known as the creator of transactional analysis and the author of Games People Play.

http://www.ericberne.com/

William F. Temple (9 March ,1914-1989) –Brit S-F writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1241

Roberto Bolaño   1953 - 2003, Chilean-Spanish novelist and poet

Godzilla in Mexico

Listen carefully, my son: bombs were falling
over Mexico City
but no one even noticed.
The air carried poison through
the streets and open windows.
You'd just finished eating and were watching
cartoons on TV.
I was reading in the bedroom next door
when I realized we were going to die.
Despite the dizziness and nausea I dragged myself
to the kitchen and found you on the floor.
We hugged. You asked what was happening
and I didn't tell you we were on death's program
but instead that we were going on a journey,
one more, together, and that you shouldn't be afraid.
When it left, death didn't even
close our eyes.
What are we? you asked a week or year later,
ants, bees, wrong numbers
in the big rotten soup of chance?
We're human beings, my son, almost birds,
public heroes and secrets.

From The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Laura Healy (Picador, £8.99). To order a copy for £7.19 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/05/roberto-bolano-godzilla-in-mexico

Sites:

http://www.frostplace.org/

http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/02/08/a-teacher039s-voice

http://www.moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/

http://www.csmonitor.com/

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1224616899625000&view=pageturner&pageno=1

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/

History:

July 15

1893		Commodore Perry arrives in Japan http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/ends/opening.htm
1099		1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem

http://www.3disrael.com/jerusalem/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulcher.cfm

Bonus Poem:

           WINTER BOUND

If I could live to see beyond the night,

The first spring morning break with fiery thrills,

And tremble into rose and violet light

Along the distant hills!

If I could hear the first wild note that swells

The blue bird's silvery throat when spring is here,

And all the sweet, wind ruffled lily bells

Ring out the joyous matins of the year!

Only to smell the budding lilac blooms

The balmy airs from sprouting brake and wold,

Rich with the strange ineffable perfumes

Of growing grass and newly furrowed mold!

If I could hear the rushing waters call

In the wild exultation of release,

Dear, I might turn my face unto the wall

And fall asleep in peace!

                             EMMA ALICE BROWNE

http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/2/4/0/12402/12402.htm