June 27

Events:

June 27 Franconia,NH,at 7:30 pm: Poetry readings in the Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place.

- Events are free and open to the public - http://www.frostplace.org/

June 27 Strafford, At 6:30 Straffords Hill Library presents a reading by Alton poet  Barb Bald from her new book of Poetry , followed by refreshments and an open mic info  664-2800 or Director.metrocast.net

Born:

Augustus de Morgan  (1806 – 03/18/1871)  English mathematician
http://www.mathcs.org/analysis/reals/history/demorgan.html

Emma Goldman  (1869 – 05/14/1940)  Russian anarchist
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emma_goldman.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/timeline/index.html

Paul Laurence Dunbar  (1872 – 02/09/1906)  US Writer Poet Lyrics of a Lowly Life

Sympathy

I KNOW what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--
I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting--
I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--
I know why the caged bird sings!

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/dunbar-paul-laurence

Lafcadio Hearn 1850- 26-Sep-1904 Author Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/hearn.html

http://ladynyo.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/lafcadio-hearn-on-bits-of-poetry/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lafcadio_hearn.html

http://lafcadiohearn.jp/misc/life.html

Helen Keller  (1880 – 06/01/1968)  US writer

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

Studdert Kennedy, Geoffrey Anketell 1883 -March 8, 1929 Eng Poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/studdert-kennedy-geoffrey-anketell

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/t/u/studdert-kennedy_ga.htm

Gaston Bachelard  (1884 – 10/16/1962)  French philosopher, writer

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/gaston_bachelard.html

Dame  Catherine Cookson 1906-june 11,1998 Eng Novelist

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

Vernon Phillips Watkins (1906 — 8 October 1967), British poet, and a translator and painter

http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-WATK-PHI-1906.html

http://charlesmatthews.blogspot.com/2010/05/poem-of-day-vernon-watkins.html

Efua Theodora Sutherland  1924-Jan 2,1996 Ghanaian theatre pioneer, children's author, and dramatist,;Foriwa (1962), Edufa (1967), and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975).

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

Captain Kangaroo  (1927 – 01/23/2004)  US entertainer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444828/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swm5vPZrl9c

Alan Coren  (1938 – 10/18/2007)  British writer

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alan_coren.html

J. J. Abrams 1966- Film/TV Producer Alias and Lost

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/

Kelly Ayotte 1968-   Politician US Senator from New Hampshire

http://www.ayotte.senate.gov/

E. R. Braithwaite 1912-  Guyana Novelist  To Sir, with Love

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39481.E_R_Braithwaite

Peter Maas 1929-Aug 23,2001 US Author Serpico

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/peter-maas/

Lucille Clifton 1936-02132010 US poet Good Woman

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lucille-clifton

James Patrick Hogan (1941 – 12 July 2010) British science fiction author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?292

James Robert Smith (1957 ) American author.

http://www.jamesrobertsmith.net/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A253WFE8XBPIG9

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?15041

Passed:

James Smithson 1765-1829 Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution

http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/smithson.htm

Joseph Smith 23-Dec-1805-1844 Founded the Mormon faith

http://www.josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=041579179acbff00VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD

Harriet Martineau  (06/12/1802 –1876)  English journalist

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

Ernest Bramah Smith (20 March 1868  - 1942), English author

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1267/1267-h/1267-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/529

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?377

Malcolm Lowry 28-Jul-1909-1957 Novelist Under the Volcano

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mlowry.htm
Arthur Waley  (08/19/1889 – 06/27/1966)  English sinologist

TO A TALKATIVE GUEST

[a.d. 836]

The town visitor’s easy talk flows in an endless stream;

The country host’s quiet thoughts ramble timidly on.

“I beg you, Sir, do not tell me about things at Ch‘ang-an;

For you entered just when my harp was tuned and lying balanced on my knees.”

PO CHU-I

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16500/16500-h/16500-h.htm

Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 –1988  ) American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948     Those Not Elect

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/679

                 Thought's End

I'd watched the hills drink the last colour of light,
All shapes grow bright and wane on the pale air,
Till down the traitorous east there came the night
And swept the circle of my seeing bare;
Its intimate beauty like a wanton's veil
Tore from the void as from an empty face.
I felt at being's rim all being fail,
And my one body pitted against space.
O heart more frightened than a wild bird's wings
Beating at green, now is no fiery mark
Left on the quiet nothingness of things.
Be self no more against the flooding dark;
There thousandwise, sown in that cloudy blot,
Stars that are worlds look out and see you not.

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Adams.html

Jeremy Brooks17-Dec-1926-1994 Novelist Jampot Smith

http://language.home.sprynet.com/theatdex/jeremy.htm

Jane Howard  (05/04/1935 –1996)  US writer

http://www.creativequotations.com/one/1157.htm

Jack Lemmon  (02/08/1925 –2001)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000493/

John Entwistle  (10/09/1944 –/2002)  English bassist, singer, songwriter (The Who)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-entwistle-mn0000226331

Shelby Foote17-Nov-1916-2005 Author Shiloh

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/shelby-foote/

Sites:

http://www.emersonkent.com/index.htm

http://thesecrethistoire.blogspot.com/

http://litbirthdays.wordpress.com/

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/other1.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html

History:

1990		Jose Canseco *  signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/jose-canseco

Bonus Poem:

Distant Rainfall

Like mourning women veiled to the feet
Tall slender rainstorms walk slowly against gray cloud along the
far verge.
The ocean is green where the river empties,
Dull gray between the points of the headlands, purple where
the women walk.
What do they want? Whom are they mourning?
What hero's dust in the urn between the two hands hidden in
the veil?
Titaness after Titaness proudly
Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost
battle's beauty. *

                                                  Robinson Jeffers

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Aura.html

*AURA was the Titan goddess of the breeze and the fresh, cool air of early morning.