July 19 

Events:

July 19, Effingham,NH  – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library - Writers' Night - Nancy Sporborg who co-wrote, “It’s not about the hike.”Features followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us , 539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.comn )

July 19, Portsmouth,NH  7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Features Mike Nelson, Roger Martin, Lucie Therrien, and Alicia Fisher Accompanied by The Larry Simon Ensemble  followed by open mike with Tammi Truax (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

July 19, 2012 Manchester, Slam Free or Die presents a feature by Jon Sands – open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )

July 19, 2012 Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts"        650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

Born:

July 19 

Johann Jakob Bodmer 1698- January 2, 1783 Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet

http://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Mahlern-1721-23-aprachlich-verglichen/dp/B003YOTCD0

Alexander Dallas Bache 1806- February 17, 1867) American physicist, scientist and surveyor

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/historymakers/bache/welcome.html

Gottfried Keller 1819-July 15, 1890 German-Swiss short-story writer and novelist

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

Edgar Degas (1834 – 09/26/1917) French Impressionist painter

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/

Dr. Charles Horace Mayo  (1865 – 05/26/1939)  US physician

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875 -September 18, 1935) Afro-American Harlem Renaissance  journalist , novelist, poet, essayist, critic and political activist.1. THREE THOUGHTS.

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/nelsonAlice.php

Vladimir Mayakovsky1893-April 14, 1930 ,avant-garde poet and playwright Russian Revolution of 1917

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

Archibald Joseph Cronin 1896-January 9, 1981 Welsh/Scotch physician and author

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

Herbert Marcuse 1898- July 29, 1979) German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/index.htm

Chester Himes 1909-November 12, 1984 African-American detective novel author Lonely Crusade

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

Eve Merriam 1916- April,1992 American poet

Onomatopoeia

The rusty spigot

sputters,

utters

a splutter,

spatters a mattering of drops,

gashes wider;

slash

splatters,

scatters,

spurts,

finally stops sputtering

and plash!

gushes rushes splashes

clear water dashes.

http://kh057.k12.sd.us/Poetry%20Example%20of%20onomatopoeia.htm

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/159

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow  (1921 – 05/30/2011) American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Developed radioimmunoassay technique

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1977/yalow-autobio.html

George McGovern  (1922 – )  US senator (SD) and presidential candidate

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000452

Joseph Hansen  1923- 2004     US author Dave Brandstetter detective series

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/joseph-hansen/

Vikki Carr 1941- American singer and humanitarian

http://vikkicarr.com/

Brian Harold May 1947- English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer of the rock band Queen.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/queen-mn0000858827

Bernie Leadon 1947 - American musician and songwriter, Dillard & Clark /The Flying Burrito Brothers /The Eagles/ guitar,

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eagles-mn0000144847

Stephen Coonts (1946-  ) American thriller and suspense novelist.

http://www.coonts.com/

Keith Godchaux 1948- 80 (US keyboardist -Grateful Dead)

http://www.dead.net/band/keith-godchaux

Thulani Davis 1948- Afro-American poet & writer

http://www.amazon.com/Thulani-Davis/e/B001H6RXM4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thulani-davis

Allen Collins 1952- Jan 23, 1990 US musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist)[ …with lead singer Ronnie Van Zant co-wrote many of the biggest Skynyrd hits, including "Free Bird", "Gimme Three Steps", and "That Smell". ]

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lynyrd-skynyrd-mn0000170369

Campbell Scott  (1961 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001714/

Jim Norton (1968 – )  US comic

http://www.eatabullet.com/new/

Passed:

July 19 

Petrarch  1304 -1374  Italian scholar, poet, and humanist,  Father of Humanism

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

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

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (05/23/1810 – 1850) US writer /SUMMER ON THE LAKES. Woman in the Nineteenth Century

http://transcendentalism.tamu.edu/authors/fuller/

John McKinley  May 1,1780 -1852  US Supreme Court Justice, 1838-52

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

Frank Murphy   April 13,1890 -1949   US Supreme Court Justice, 1940-49

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

Justice

Jack Doe met Dick Roe, whose wife he loved,
And said: "I will get the best of him."
So pulling a knife from his boot, he shoved
It up to the hilt in the breast of him.

Then he moved that weapon forth and back,
Enlarging the hole he had made with it,
Till the smoking liver fell out, and Jack
Merrily, merrily played with it.

Then he reached within and he seized the slack
Of the lesser bowel, and, traveling
Hither and thither, looked idly back
On that small intestine, raveling.

The wretched Richard, with many a grin
Laid on with exceeding suavity,
Curled up and died, and they ran John in
And charged him with sins of gravity.

The case was tried and a verdict found:
The jury, with great humanity,
Acquitted the prisoner on the ground
Of extemporary insanity.

-            Ambrose Bierce

Groff Conklin (6 September ,1904-1968) US Fantasy Anthologist

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1381

http://www.gcwillick.com/Spacelight/conklin.html

Alan E. Nourse (11 August ,1928-1992) Brit Sci-Fi Novelist

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?73

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18492/18492-h/18492-h.htm

Alan Lomax (01/31/1915 –2002) US musicologist

http://www.folkstreams.net/filmmaker,121

Frank McCourt  (08/19/1930 –2009)  Irish-American writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566660/

Sites:

http://archive.org/stream/twentiethcentury030344mbp/twentiethcentury030344mbp_djvu.txt

http://www.frostfriends.org/

http://www.theonlinenewsstand.org/content.php?institutionID=1&categorySelected=cars

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/pdf/SOA.pdf

http://robertreich.org/

http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#ancient

History:

July 19 

1869, naturalist John Muir set pen to paper to capture his experience of awakening in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

1692 Five Massachusetts women were hanged for witchcraft

http://historyofmassachusetts.org/timeline-of-the-salem-witch-trials/

Bonus Poem:

MASTER OF LOVE

If you know its bliss, don’t you spare the kiss
As the joy of love bears no moderation.
Let yourself be kissed and then, kiss as well
It is on your lips where love shall endure.

Do not kiss, do not, as a slave or believer,
Do it as if going to the rolling spring;
Let yourself be kissed -earnest sacrifice-
The more biting kiss, the more trustful one.

What would you have done, having died before,
With no fruit but the breeze on your cheek?
Let yourself be kissed, on your breast and hands,
Lover or beloved, your glass rising up.

When you kiss, drink, let your glass fix your fear:
Kiss the neck, the most beautiful part.
Let yourself be kissed
and might you still need some,
Kiss yet another time, because life is too brief.

                                  -Joan Savat-Papasseit
(Barcelona, 1894 – 1924)    Translated by Anna Maria Torra

http://perso.wanadoo.es/lipmic/Pluricat/eng/papasseit.htm