March 15

Events:

March 15, Manchester: The second Semi-Final for New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud will take place at 7 p.m., Walker Auditorium, Robert Frost Hall, Southern NH University. The snow date will be on March 18 at 2 p.m. (www.poetryoutloud.org).

March 15th Effingham at 7pm Writers' Night at Effingham Public Library features singer/ songwriter Pat OBrien and storyteller, Tom Diegoli. Features followed by Open Mic opportunity for writers /musicians (5 min. limit). Please come and bring your writing or music to share.Light Refreshments. The Library is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham. Contact: Katie McCarthy 539-7694

March 15th Portsmouth- 7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Readers:

Michael Macklin, Marita O’neill, Melissa   Crowe and Gordon Lang Feature, Accompanied by The Larry Simon   Ensemble, followed by open mike (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

Born:

March 15

George Dyer 1755-1841) Eng Poet

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33268

http://www.enotes.com/george-dyer-criticism/dyer-george

http://books.google.com/books?id=V6g_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=poems+by+George+Dyer&source=bl&ots=4meGpE9ANI&sig=a763Vx05cWtSipv70nHNu3SgQ6w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BaRhT_q2EIey0QHDwKGdCA&sqi=2&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=poems%20by%20George%20Dyer&f=false

Andrew Jackson  (1767 – 06/08/1845)  US President (7)
http://www.american-presidents.com/andrew-jackson/

William Lamb Melbourne  (1779 – 11/24/1848)  British PM (23)

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

Branko Radicevic, (1824 – June18,1953) Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=http://www.bgdconsulting.com/brad/&ei=R61hT5jxMubh0QGf1LGWCA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbranko%2Bradicevic%2Bpesme%26hl%3Den%26qscrl%3D1%26nord%3D1%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422US456%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D681%26prmd%3Dimvnsfdo

Harriet Wilson 1825 -June 28, 1900,. She was a black slave and author.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/author-harriet-wilson-born

Paul von Heyse (1830-April 2,1914), German writer and 1910 Nobelist

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

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/

http://literarism.blogspot.com/2011/10/paul-heyse.html

Dame Margaret Kendal  (1849 – 09/14/1935) English actor 

http://www.stagebeauty.net/kendal/kendal-m2.html
Lady Isabella Augusta Persse, Augusta Gregory (1852-May22,1932), Irish playwright,

translator, and poet ,co-founder and co-director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gregory/theatre/theatre.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=4092

Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867-Oct.4,1902) English Roman Catholic poet and critic

http://www.thewraiths.co.uk/lionel-pigot-johnson.html

Harold L. Ickes  (1874 – 02/03/1952)   US social activist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARickes.htm
Wallace Irwin (1875 – 02/14/1959) US writer

http://www.sonnets.org/irwinw.htm

Wolcott Gibbs (1902 – 08/16/1958) US writer

http://www.pbpulse.com/arts-and-culture/2011/12/25/on-books-wolcott-gibbs-at-his-best-worst/

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/our_writers_are_full_of_cliches_just_as_old_barns/227653.html

Sam Lightnin Hopkins. 1912- January 30, 1982. African-American blues artist.

http://www.campstreetcafe.com/HoustonChronicle.htm

Matti Kuusi 1914-Jan.16,1998 Finnish folklorist, writer, professor

http://www.folklorefellows.fi/?page_id=764
Richard Ellman (1918-May 13 1987) U S literary scholar of Irish literature, biographer, critic and writer

http://www.james-joyce-music.com/quote_ellmann.html

Lawrence Sanders, 1920 -98 American novelist

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/lawrence-sanders/

Jimmy Swaggart  (1935 – )  US televangelist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841438/

http://www.nndb.com/people/556/000022490/

Robert Nye, 1939 – Eng. poet & writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5059

Jack Whyte, 1939 - Scottish-Canadian author

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45309.Jack_Whyte

Phil Lesh (1940 ) US bassist, singer (Grateful Dead )

http://www.dead.net/band/phil-lesh

David Cronenberg 1943-  Canadian director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/

Kate Bornstein, 1948 - American author

http://www.tootallblondes.com/
Lisa Holton, 1959 - American writer

http://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Holton/e/B001HMQXO2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Ben Okri (1959- ) Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and poet

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

http://literature.britishcouncil.org/ben-okri

http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=555

The Awakening Age,

O ye who travel the meridian line,
May the vision of a new world within you shine.

May eyes that have lived with poverty's rage,
See through to the glory of the awakening age.

For we are all richly linked in hope,
Woven in history, like a mountain rope.

Together we can ascend to a new height,
Guided by our heart's clearest light.

When perceptions are changed there's much to gain,
A flowering of truth instead of pain.

There's more to a people than their poverty;
There's their work, wisdom, and creativity.

Along the line may our lives rhyme,
To make a loving harvest of space and time.

                                                                                                          by Ben Okri

Copyright Ben Okri, 1999

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/poetry/benokri.htm

Fabio Lanzoni   (1961 – )   Italian model

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007231/

Jennifer 8. Lee, 1976 - American journalist

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Jennifer_8._Lee

F.V.A. Morriello, 1985 - Canadian author

http://www.quintencia.com/author.htm

Passed:

March 15

Salvatore Rosa, (1615  -1673) , Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rosa_salvator.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13183c.htm

James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814-1897) English Jewish Victorian Mathematician

http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/mathematics/aboutus/history/bios/sylvester.html

H. P. [Howard Phillips] Lovecraft, Aug.20,1890-1937 American poet and author of macabre short novels

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522454/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=H.P.+Lovecraft

Alice Stone Blackwell  (09/14/1857 –1950)   US suffragist

http://armenianhouse.org/blackwell/biography-en.html

Miles Malleson,May25,1888- 1969 Eng.actor/writer (Postman's Knock)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539942/

Josef Martin Bauer, March11,1901-70 German Script-writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061864/

Tarjei Vesaas Aug.20,1897-1970 Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet)

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

WHERE THE FLAME WAS BURNING

By the long grey road
there is ash after a fire gone out
and signs of departure
in dust and heat.

That is all.
But the flame that burned
in the circle of the travellers
whirled only before the eye
in unextinguished longing.

They were travelling for a dream
and could give all,
and must go on in their searchings
and their unease,
and the bonfire burned on
in every edge of sight,
whilst new searchers dug in the ashes
and in the ground under the ashes,
and it is dream
that is happiness
for those journeying.

                                                                              Translated from Norwegian (nynorsk) by Eric Dickens

http://nordicvoices.blogspot.com/2009/06/tarjei-vesaas-poem.html

Aristotle Onassis   (01/15/1906 – 03/15/1975)  Greek zillionaire

http://www.nndb.com/people/316/000024244/

Dame Rebecca West (12/21/1892 –1983) English journalist, novelist, and critic

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

Radha Krishna Choudhary,Feb.15,1921 1985 Indian historian and writer

http://books.google.com/books?id=6r0tAAAAMAAJ&q=radha+krishna+chaudhary&dq=radha+krishna+chaudhary&pgis=1

Al Sheikh Muhammad Jameel Didi, (May 1, 1915 - March 15, 1989) Maldivian poet

http://www.maldivesroyalfamily.com/maldives_anthem.shtml

Helen Deutsch (March21,1906-1992 US screenwriter (National Velvet-1944)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222079/

Anthony Bowles Sept.18,1931-1993 music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101217/

Dr. Benjamin Spock (05/02/1903 –1998) US doctor, baby specialist

http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-spock-9490919

Paul Stojanovich, (Feb.13,1956-2003) Reality TV pioneer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0831236/

Stuart Rosenberg, (Aug.11,1927-2007)American film and television director Cool Hand Luke (1967))

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742341/

Sites:

http://www.skepdic.com/forer.html

http://www.liquorandwineoutlets.com/events/

http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/contest.htm

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2007/08/the_conquerors.html

http://www.artstreamstudios.com/

http://mainehumanities.org/podcast/archives/category/literature/maine-writers

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

http://tnq30.eventbrite.com/

http://squirrelhillpoets.org/bauer/

http://www.chichesternh.org/Public_Documents/ChichesterNH_Library/townlibrary

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/6-famous-trees-killed-human-folly.html

History:

March 15

1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook

http://www.crittercove.com/

http://www.kurnell.com/captaincook.htm

(1930) The Saturday Review publishes Hart Crane's "Cape Hatteras"

http://www.mysticcat.net/Poetry/Crane.html

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/crane/hatteras.htm

Bonus Poem:

                                                                                By Janet Norris Bangs

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.