June 18

Events:

June 18 Conway Library Barb Bald,poet and author, with the Harpist Valerie May at 7pm.

http://www.conwaypubliclibrary.org/

advance notice;

June 28th,Concord,  7 p.m., Andrew Merton, Evidence That We Are Descended From Chairs. Join us for an evening of poetry as Andrew Merton reads and signs his new volume of verse. Andrew Merton was a reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (MA) Daily Times, the Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire. To read three poems excerpted from Evidence, check out Andrew's website, here. http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/evidence-chairs http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/

Born:

June 18

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581– 09/15/1613)Eng Poet and Essayist

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/overbury/overbio.htm

http://www.eudaemonist.com/biblion/overbury/wife

Ivan [Alexandrovich]Goncharov(1812-27-Sep-1891)Russian novelist and travel writer Oblomov

http://kirjasto.si.fi/ivangont.htm

Alexander Balloch Grosart, (1827-1899)British author and editor

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dobell/grosart.html

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Grosart%2C%20Alexander%20Balloch%2C%201827-1899

William Henry Seward, Jr. , (1839 – 1920) Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5892332

George Essex Evans (1863- November 10, 1909-) Australian Victorian  poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/evans-george-essex

from Ad Astra

The giant planet in the golden stream
Turned all her massy bulk against the glow,
I watched her storm-blue mountain-turrets gleam
Crowned with unconquered snow;

And all her table-lands and wooded leas,
And emerald plains through which clear rivers run,
And all the foam crests of her plunging seas
That shout unto the sun;

And all her marble cities and her towers
That climb the hill or shine through deepmost brakes,
And all her velvet valleys, rich with flowers,
And all her silver lakes;

And, lastly, with a strange new majesty,
The face of man did pass before me there,
King of the Earth, and Victor of the Sea,
And Lord of all the Air;

http://www.poemhunter.com/george-essex-evans/poems/

Carolyn Wells (1869 – 03/26/1942) US writer

http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/carolyn-wells.htm

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/carolyn-wells/

James Montgomery Flagg ( 1877-27-May-1960 US Painter I Want YOU for U.S. Army

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

Con Conrad  Conrad K. Dober   1891- 28-Sep-1938 US Songwriter -Oscar for Best Music Original Song 1935 for The Gay Divorcee The Continental

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175628/Fate

Philip Barry, (1896-1949), U.S. dramatist The Philadelphia Story

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058129/

Kay Kyser (1897- July 23,1985) Musician The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kay-kyser-mn0000857119

Raymond Radiquet 1903-Dec .12,1923 French writer and poet The Devil in the Flesh

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

Jeanette MacDonald  (06/18/1903 – 01/14/1965)  US actor The Merry Widow

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531776/

Keye Luke 1904- 12-Jan-1991 US Actor Charlie Chan's No. 1 Son, Lee

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525601/

Frithjof Schuon, (1907 – May 5,1998) Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/authors/Frithjof-Schuon.aspx

http://www.frithjof-schuon.com/start.htm

Sammy Cahn   (1913-Jan.15,1993 US Songwriter Three Coins in the Fountain

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005991/

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/songs/C5

Sylvia Porter (1913 – 06/05/1991) writer  US economist

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/porter.html

Richard Boone (1917-10-Jan-1981 US Actor Have Gun, Will Travel

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095524/

Jerzy Kosinski (1933 – 05/03/1991) Polish writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467085/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/jerzy-kosinski/

Gail Godwin  (1937- ) US novelist A Southern Family

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/gail-godwin/

Lou Brock  (1939 – )  US baseball player- Stole 938 bases

http://www.loubrock.com/

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brocklo01.shtml

Roger Ebert (1942 – ) US writer, critic Siskel and Ebert

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001170/

Sir Paul McCartney (1942 – ) English musician

http://www.allmusic.com/album/back-to-the-egg-mw0000198282

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032

Chris Van Allsburg (1949- ) US  children's book illustrator and storyteller

http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/books.html

Isabella Rossellini  (1952 – )  Italian actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000618/

Carol Kane  (1952 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001406/

Joanne Lipman 1961- Editor :  Condé Nast Portfolio, 2007-09

http://www.breastcancer.org/about_us/pab/joanne_lipman.jsp

Ray Lamontagne, 1973 – American singer-songwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1787464/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-lamontagne-mn0000182302

Passed:

June 18

Robert Crowley, (c1517-1588)  English printer and poet

http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-crowley/

Ambrose Philips (c. 1675-1749) English poet and politician. Pastorals {from TInLit-Henry Carey in his 1725 poem, “Namby-Pamby.” Playing off Philips’s first name, Carey coined the term to describe the short metrical line and sickly-sweet theme found in some of Philips verse}

http://www.nndb.com/people/862/000097571/
António Feliciano de Castilho  Jan 18,1800-1875 Portuguese man of letters, poet A noite de Castello

http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000095075/

Samuel Butler (12/04/1875 –1902) English Victorian author

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1906/1906-h/1906-h.htm

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1b55/1

Maxim Gorky Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov (03/28/1868 –1936 or yesterday) Russian writer

http://www.top10-best.com/m/top_10_best_maxim_gorky_quotes.html

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

Charles Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi 3-Mar-1882-1949 Italian/American creative financier -Get-rich-quick schemes

http://www.sec.gov/answers/ponzi.htm

http://pnzi.com/

Ethel Barrymore  (08/15/1879 –1959)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000856/

Pamela Hansford Johnson Baroness Snow (05/29/1912 -1981) US/ English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

http://www.londonfictions.com/pamela-hansford-johnson-this-bed-thy-centre.html

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Pamela+Hansford+Johnson%22

John Cheever (05/27/1912 –1982) US writer

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

Djuna Barnes (06/12/1892 –1982) US writer

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

Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price, 3 July 1898-1988 American pulp magazine popular fiction writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/e-hoffmann-price/

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?525

Isidor Feinstein I. F.Stone (12/24/1907 –1989) US writer

http://www.ifstone.org/

Peter Allen (02/10/1944 –1992) Australian Singer/Songwriter I Go To Rio

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-allen-mn0000314155

Vincent Sherman16-Jul-1906-2006 Film Director The Young Philadelphians

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792605/

José Saramago 16-Nov-1922-2010   Portuguese novelist

If I have no other voice…

If I have no other voice that doubles me,
This silence of echoes of other sounds,
It is to speak, speak again, until I flay
The hidden speech of what I believe.

It is, shattered, the said between detours
From the arrow that has poisoned itself,
Or a high sea coagulated with ships
Where the drowned arm beckons us.

It’s to force a root to its base
When the rigid stone cuts off the way,
It’s to hurl all that one says
Because the more a tree is a stump—the more lonely.

It will tell, its words discovered,
Tales of the habit of living,
This hour that tightens and loosens,
The not seen, the not had, the almost being.

Translated from the Portuguese by Margo Berdeshevsky

http://poetryinternational.sdsu.edu/Featured.htm#Saramago

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

http://amediavoz.com/saramago.htm

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/saramago-autobio.html

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1032/the-art-of-fiction-no-155-jose-saramago

Clarence Clemons, (1942-2011 )American saxophonist

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/clarence-clemons-mn0000782375

Sites:

http://www.everseradio.com/

http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/index.html

http://www.unh.edu/moa/

http://www.eofftv.com/t/thi/this_is_your_life_1969_main.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPEp5N-PpNQ

http://www.livescience.com/

http://wumbradio.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=32

History:

June 18

1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay

http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/joanofarc/timeline.html

	1864		At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults http://www.ci.petersburg.ne.us/events.asp
1948		American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
1981		Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court

http://www.oyez.org/justices/potter_stewart

http://www.oyez.org/justices/sandra_day_oconnor

Bonus Poem:

The End of the Day

Under a dim light
Short, dancing and twisting unnecessarily
Life, impudent and CADRE.
Also, as soon as the horizon

The voluptuous night rises,
Soothing all, even hunger,
Erasing everything, even the shame,
the Poet says, "Finally!

My mind, like me vertebrae,
Summons ardently rest;
The heart full of dreams Funeral,

I'll lie on my back
And roll me in your curtains,
O refreshing shadows! "

Charles Baudelaire

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/039250.html