APRIL27

Events:

April 27 Portsmouth, Jazzmouth Jazz Night  at The Press Room   ATTACK OF THE WOMEN OF JAZZMOUTH Celebrating  Women Musicians of the Seacoast featuring Cynthia Chatis Catherine Sikora Joanne Connolly Agnes Charlesworth w/ Swing a Cat special guests The Manchester Slam  Poetr y Team Friday, April 27 8:00 pm. The Press Room 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH http://jazzmouth.org/

http://www.facebook.com/groups/45359912602/

April 27 Goffstown  open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in the village area of Goffstown. http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/        http://www.apothecaonline.com/

April 26-29, 2012 Portsmouth Jazzmouth, The Seacoast Poetry & Jazz Festival   Highlights of this years festival include special guests: David Amram • Eric Mingus  * XJ Kennedy • Lawrence Kraman  ALSO  at The Music Hall, screening of "The Manchurian Candidate” with composer David Amram present and “David Amram, the First 80 Years” at The Loft. http://jazzmouth.org/

Born:

April 27

Edward Gibbon (1737 -1794), British historian http://www.nndb.com/people/051/000103739/ Mary Woolstonecroft, (Mrs Godwin), 1753- 10th Sept, 1797.Eng Writer http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwollstonecraft.htm Herbert Spencer (1820 – 12/08/1903) English philosopher http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/spencer/spencer.html General Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 07/23/1885) US President http://www.presidentsusa.net/grant.html Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-April 30,1961), African-American editor and novelist http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/jesse-fauset-novelist-who-discovered-others John Murray Corse 1835- April 27,1893Pittsburgh PA, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6133198 Hubert Harrison , 1883-1927 .African-American activist, educator, and writer. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/hubert-harrison-activist-excellence Rogers Hornsby  (1896 – 01/05/1963)  US baseball player http://baseballhall.org/hof/hornsby-rogers Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-Oct 1, 1962 Austro-American essayist, humorist, novelist, artist, and author of books for children- Madeline http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lbemelmans.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069840/ Frank Belknap Long (1901 - January 3, 1994) American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1123 C[ecil] Day Lewis Nicholas Blake (1904-1972) / Anglo-Irish poet, critic, and educator detective-story writer, British poet laureate in the 1960s http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=yYIuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3428,2147956 http://kirjasto.sci.fi/nblake.htm http://www.ballintubbert.com/ Alice Dunnigan 1906-,83African-American, political news coverage. journalist http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/journalist-alice-dunnigan-specialized-politics Irving Adler (1913) author   ,mathematician  scientist, and educator http://lccn.loc.gov/60014879 http://lccn.loc.gov/58012132 http://www.amazon.com/Irving-Adler/e/B001HOGD86/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1 Edwin George Morgan FRSE OBE (1920 – 17 August 2010)   Scottish poet and translator Glasgow’s Poet Laureate in 1999, and then the Scottish Makar (the National Poet Laureate) in 2004.’ http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22390 http://www.edwinmorgan.com/menu.html Stawberries   There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open french window facing each other your knees held in mine the blue plates in our laps the strawberries glistening in the hot sunlight we dipped them in sugar looking at each other not hurrying the feast for one to come the empty plates laid on the stone together with the two forks crossed and I bent towards you sweet in that air in my arms abandoned like a child from your eager mouth the taste of strawberries in my memory lean back again let me love you let the sun beat on our forgetfulness one hour of all the heat intense and summer lightning on the Kilpatrick hills let the storm wash the plates by Edwin Morgan From A Red Rose or a Satin Heart: An Anthology of Scottish Love Poems http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/saturday-poem-strawberries-edwin-morgan

Coretta Scott King 1927- January 30, 2006 African-American civil rights activist and author.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/coretta-scott-king-passionate-activist

Anouk Aimee  (1932 – )  French actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000733/

Chuck Knox  (1932 – )  US football coach
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/KnoxCh0.htm

August Wilson, (1945-2005) two-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright

http://www.augustwilsoncenter.org/

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc48.html

Ace Frehley 1951 Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kiss-p4692

Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen 1952-, Finland World rally champion in 1981

http://www.arivatanen.com/

Passed:

April 27

Sir William Jones (28 Sept1746 –1794) English philologist, poet, and scholar of ancient India

http://www.chessdryad.com/caissa/caissa.htm

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=36781

Ralph Waldo Emerson   (05/25/1803 –1882)  US writer

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

from THE WORLD-SOUL

THANKS to the morning light,
Thanks to the foaming sea,
To the uplands of New Hampshire,
To the green-haired forest free;
Thanks to each man of courage,
To the maids of holy mind,
To the boy with his games undaunted
Who never looks behind?

Cities of proud hotels,
Houses of rich and great,
Vice nestles in your chambers,
Beneath your roofs of slate.
It cannot conquer folly,--
Time-and-space-conquering steam,--
And the light-outspeeding telegraph
Bears nothing on its beam.

The politics are base;
The letters do not cheer;
And 't is far in the deeps of history,
The voice that speaketh clear.
Trade and the streets ensnare us,
Our bodies are weak and worn;
We plot and corrupt each other,
And we despoil the unborn.

Yet there in the parlor sits
Some figure of noble guise,--
Our angel, in a stranger's form,
Or woman's pleading eyes;
Or only a flashing sunbeam
In at the window-pane;
Or Music pours on mortals
Its beautiful disdain.

http://www.rwe.org/

Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 –1932) American poet

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/233

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Hart_Crane

Maud Gonne   (12/20/1865 –1953)  Irish actor, patriot, feminist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ACgonne.htm

Edward R. Murrow   (04/25/1908 –1965)  US broadcast journalist

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/edward-r-murrow/this-reporter/513/

Frank O'Rourke (Oct 16, 1916 -89) American writer known for western and mystery novels and sports fiction

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/rourkeprofiles/frankwriter.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642543/
William Egan Colby  Jan 4 ,1920-1996 US CIA Director,

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-and-deputy-directors-of-central-intelligence/colby.html

Carlos Castaneda   (12/25/1931 –1998)  US anthropologist, writer

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Shamanism/Castaneda/

George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 –2002) American science fiction author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?201

http://sites.google.com/site/tomjackson/home

Sites:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/23936/

http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/

http://www.deerbrookeditions.com/

http://www.csmonitor.com/

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.saltpublishing.com/horizon/index.htm

http://www.facebook.com/groups/45359912602/

History:

April 27

1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm

1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html

1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake MT

http://nsidc.org/snow/

Bonus Poem:

If you believe in ghosts,
I think you must believe
that earth’s good smells live on
and that the dead will act
on fury and on fear.

You must believe that, while
the dead are under the
dirt or parked in urns, they
still have a plan. They want
to see their favorite movies

again and scratch their dogs’
bellies, make love in warm places
and buy chocolate at the market.
I’ve sensed ghosts now and then,
turned to where I thought

my mother’s eyes might watch or
my father’s fingers might touch.
I’ve found my cupboard door
ajar and heard wild words
in the dark. If you believe

in ghosts, you must believe
that living is not a huge
salt sea, but a shallow
stream in which most things, like
the restless dead, stay afloat.

    by Martina Reisz Newberry

From:

Perhaps You Could Breathe For Me

Copyright ©:

2011, Martina Reisz Newberry

http://www.best-poems.net/martina_reisz_newberry/index.html