March  9

Events:

March 9, Henniker: The first Semi-Final for New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud will take place at 7 p.m., Great Room, Simon Center, New England College. The snow date March 10 at 2 p.m. (www.poetryoutloud.org).

March 9 Rochester , Storytelling in the Pantry featuring SIMON BROOKS!  at 7 pm. Admission is free, and donations will be collected for Simon. For this month only, we'll meet at Sweet Kuppin' Cakes, 20 North Main St. in Rochester;  LANES - League for the Advancement of NE Storytelling: www.lanes.org

This just In (aliddletravellingmusic, maestro, if you will):

March 16, Washington, D.C. at noon; Author Joseph Fruscione discusses Faulkner and Hemingway Literary Rivalry, in Dining Room A (sixth floor) of the James Madison Building, the lecture is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. Book sales and a book signing will follow the program. 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C http://www.loc.gov/poetry/events.html#mar16

Born:

March 9

Edmund Waller (1606-21 October, 1687); English poet /MOP

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/341.html

George Granville  (1666 – 01/29/1735) English politico

http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=GRNL677G&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50

Dr. Joseph Franz Gall, 1757-1828 German founder of phrenology,

http://www.phrenology.com/franzjosephgall.html

http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/

William Cobbett aka Peter Porcupine, (1763-June 18, 1835) English writer, reformer, and publisher who wrote political pamphlets and gazettes with strong radical viewpoints in both America and England

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2809

Felix Huston Robertson 1839 -1928  Brigadier General (Confederate Army),

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro26

Phoebe Palmer Knapp, 1839 - July 10, 1908) American Methodist hymnwriter. She published more than 500 hymn tunes during her lifetime; her most famous melody comprises the tune to Fanny Crosby's hymn, "Blessed Assurance."

http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/03/phoebe-palmer-knapp.html

Ernest Bevin  (1881 – 04/14/1951)  English statesman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bevin_ernest.shtml
[Victoria Mary] Vita Sackville-West, (1892 - 2 June 1962) British novelist and poet
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sackvill.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsackville.htm

TO A POET WHOSE VERSES I HAD READ

I WOULD not venture to dispraise or praise.
Too well I know the indifference which bounds
A poet in the narrow working-grounds
Where he is blind and deaf in all his ways.

He must work out alone his path to glory;
A thousand breaths are fanning him along;
A thousand tears end in one little song,
A thousand conflicts in one little story;

A thousand notes swell to a single chord.
He cannot tell where his direction tends;
He strives unguided towards indefinite ends;
He is an ignorant though absolute lord.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30842/pg30842.html

Luis Barragan 1902 – 11/22/1988 Mexican architect

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1136

David Smith (1906 – 05/23/1965) US sculptor

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-smith-david.htm

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814- March 10,1861) Ukranian national poet artist and humanist.

http://polyhymnion.org/lit/shevchenko/

David Garnett (1892 – 17 February 1981) British writer publisher and editor

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10337/10337-h/10337-h.htm

Rex Warner (, 1905 – June 24, 1986) English classicist, poet,  writer and translator. (Wild Goose Chase)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085140/

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?169878

Peter C. Quennell (1905 -27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.) Byron scholar

http://www.definition-of.net/who-is-Peter%2BC%2BQuennell

Mircea Eliade 1907-86 Romanian-American historian of religion, fiction writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eliade.htm

Elder James Olson (1909 – July 25, 1992) American poet, teacher and literary critic.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/29/obituaries/elder-j-olson-83-a-poet-and-teacher.html

http://books.google.com/books/about/Plays_poems_1948_58.html?id=U0ETAAAAMAAJ

William Frederick Temple (1914–July 15, 1989) British science fiction writer.

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

Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane (1918 – 07/17/2006) U.S. detective novelist and Mike Hammer creator

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/spillane.htm

http://www.mickeyspillanes.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818765/
James Buckley:    (1923 – )  US senate candidate

http://www.jameslbuckley.com/

Ornette Coleman  (1930 – )  US musician

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/coleman-p65603

John Cale (1942 – ) Welsh singer, songwriter (Velvet Underground)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-cale-p3818

Mark Lindsay  (1942 – )  US singer (Raiders)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mark-lindsay-p98634

Bobby Fischer (03/09/1943 – 01/17/2008) US-Icelandic chess grand master

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19233

Keri Hulme (1947- ) New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and poet
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hulme.htm

http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4445/Hulme-Keri.html

David Pogue, US technology writer , (1963), one of the best-selling "how-to-guide" authors

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2639194/

http://www.davidpogue.com/

Passed:

March 9

William Warner (1558-1609) Eng. Renaissance Attorney poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/343.html

Francis Beaumont, 1584 -1616 Eng Ren. dramatist

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/beaumont/

William Guthrie, (-1771) historical and geographical writer,

http://books.google.com/books?id=E8CvIHigF0oC&pg=PA415&lpg=PA415&dq=William+Guthrie,+(-1771)+historical+and+geographical+writer,&source=bl&ots=gLtr3_SYVj&sig=StpCUy6lbwM47gxB5WGEemCZlaY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=L-RZT7HoJum80AHan-GyDw&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (06/20/1743 –1825) English writer of books for the young

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/8.html

      On a Lady's Writing

HER even lines her steady temper show ;
Neat as her dress, and polish'd as her brow ;
Strong as her judgment, easy as her air ;
Correct though free, and regular though fair :
And the same graces o'er her pen preside
That form her manners and her footsteps guide.

http://www.usask.ca/english/barbauld/

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nap/Rights_of_Woman_Anna.htm

Leopold Ritter  von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 –1895) Austrian writer and journalist

http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/imptopia/sacher-masoch.html

Hinton R. Helper (12/27/1829 –1909) US writer

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h422.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36055/36055-h/36055-h.htm

Benjamin Franklin Frank Wedekind  July 24, 1864 –1918, German playwright.

http://www.myspace.com/frankwedekind

C yril Northcote Parkinson (07/30/1909 –1993) British naval historian and author( Parkinson's Law)
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-use-parkinsons-law-to-your-advantage.html
Charles Bukowski (08/16/1920 –1994) US writer ,poet

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bukowski.htm

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/charles_bukowski/

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001977/

Ian Keith Ballantine (February 15, 1916 –1995) pioneering American publisher who founded and published the innovative paperback line of Ballantine Books from 1952 to 1974 with his wife, Betty Ballantine.
http://kingsofthenight0.tripod.com/ballantine.htm

George Burns (01/20/1896 –1996) US comic actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122675/

Biggie Smalls  (05/21/1972 –1997)  US rapper

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-notorious-big-p44889

Terry Nation (8 August 1930 –1997) Welsh screenwriter and novelist. probably best known for creating iconic villains the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622334/

Sites:

http://www.cortlandreview.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62/62-h/62-h.htm

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39002/39002-h/39002-h.htm

http://www.neatstuff.net/text/free-stuff.html

http://www.madpoetry.org/madpoets/guenette.html

http://www.writersday.org/

Bonus Poem:

On My Fathers's Knee


On my father's knee, I learned of white horses;
How to ride, call them, speak their language
And travel to cities in the clouds.

In places unknown, I would dine with kings
Dressed in Ermine and Velvet.
I would eat off golden plates,
Laugh in the halls of castles.

Ride home in a carriage
That shown as bright
As a diamond beneath the day star.

Often I would hold these tales in a box
Guarded by a dog
Whose eyes were wide with wonder.
My treasure, my magic, all at my fingertips.

Now there are keys of plastic.
My purse has heard the word depletion.
My coat is wool, my castle of brick.
I still know laugher, but I am too big
To sit upon my father's knee.

But all is not lost.
In his eyes magic sparkles still.
For each time he looks at me,
He sees a princess.
And each time I think of him,
I see the knight of my childhood,
My champion of dreams.

                                                                           Hazel Greenfell 2000

http://www.livinginthelightms.com/livinginthelight.html