July 26

Events:

July 26 Wolfeboro 7-9pm - The Country Bookseller, Durgin Stables, N. Main St., Poets in the Attic –All  open mike .If the weather is with us we will be on the lawn;1^st hour taped for Community TV and available on DVD (poetsintheattic.gmail.com   or 539-4472) 

Every Thursday, Manchester, Slam Free or Die–featuring the 201 Port Veritus Slam team  &open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com ,  facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )

Every Thursday  Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts"        650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

ThisjustIn:

July 31st Lebanon, Me,  Jon Shutt will be reading a selection of poems from his book Blood Red Dawn. 7 pm till roughly 8:30 pm Some refreshments will be provided and an open Mic will follow! Sign ups will be at the front desk :) Martha Sawyer Community Library (53 Upper Guinea Rd. Lebanon, Me 04027) jon.shutt.yahoo.com  , http://www.facebook.com/lebanonlibrary

Born:

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Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1802- July 15, 1839  English  Victorian tutor,, M.P. poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/praed-winthrop-mackworth

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 11/02/1950)  Famous English author and literary

http://www.amazon.com/George-Bernard-Shaw/e/B000AQ1ZEO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1343217349&sr=8-1

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17781

Carl Jung  (1875 – 06/06/1961)  German psychoanalyst

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

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz,  1875- 22-Feb-1939  Poet

LII: Meditation

Now the moon goes climbing

over the orange grove.

And Venus is shining

like a glass dove.

Amber and beryl

beyond the far mountain,

and over the calm ocean

sky of porcelain, purple.

Now it’s night in the garden

– about its tasks goes water!

and only the scent of jasmine,

the nightingale of odours.

From ocean to ocean

How silent it seems, the war,

while Valencia* blossoms

drinking the Guadalviar!*

Valencia of slender towers

and soft nights, Valencia,

I’ll be there with you,

when you I no longer see–

where sand adds to the meadow,

where the violet sea recedes.

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/Machado.htm#_Toc187483809

Andre Maurois Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog at Elbeuf (1885 – 10/09/1967) French writer

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

Aldous Huxley  (1894 – 11/22/1963)  English writer

http://www.amazon.com/Aldous-Huxley/e/B000APWRRY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1343217312&sr=8-1
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1672

Robert Graves  (1895 – 12/07/1985)  English writer [apparently somebody is desperate for this to be his birthday…doesn’t matter,I always send the card late ,and I expect he won’t open the envelope if he sees it’s from me…skip ]
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rgraves.htm

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6931374

Paul Gallico 1897-15-Jul-1975 Author of The Snow Goose

http://www.paulgallico.info/

Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (1901 – 26 September 1993) Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels

http://www.nybooks.com/books/authors/nina-berberova/

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/sept08-nina-berberova/

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/29/obituaries/nina-berberova-92-poet-novelist-and-professor.html

Gracie Allen  (1902 – 08/27/1964)  US comic, actor

http://www.gracieallen.net/

Vivian Vance  (1902 – 08/17/1979)  US actor

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=1487&page=gr

Jean Shepherd  1921-  16-Oct-1999  Radio Personality A Christmas Story

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.

http://www.flicklives.com/

Jason Robards  (1922 – 12/26/2000)  US actor
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3791&source_type=A

Anwar Chairil 1922-  April 28, 1949  Indonesian writer/poet

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

Hoyt Wilhelm  1923- 23-Aug-2002 baseball Knuckleball relief pitcher{HERO}
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilheho01.shtml

Stanley Kubrick  (1928 – 03/07/1999)  US director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/

Dobie Gray 1940- 6-Dec-2011 Singer/Songwriter Drift Away

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dobie-gray-mn0000138335

 Sir Michael  Mick Philip Jagger  (1943 – )  English singer (Rolling Stones)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp05443

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001396/

Peter Hyams  1943- Film Director Capricorn One
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001382/

Helen Mirren  (/1945 – )  English actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000545/

Roger Taylor  1949-  Musician Drummer for Queen

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/roger-taylor-mn0000254075

Susan George 1950-  Brit Actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001265/

Nana Visitor  1957-  US Actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000684/

Kevin Spacey  (/1959 – )  US actor ,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000228/

Passed:

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John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (04/01/1647 –1680)  English writer Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/wilmot-earl-rochester-john

Sam Houston  (03/02/1793 –1863)  US senator

http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/shouston.htm
George Borrow  (07/05/1803 –1881)  English writer, linguist

http://www.classictravelbooks.com/authors/borrow.htm

William Jennings Bryan  (03/19/1860 –1925)  US Secretary of State

http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/bryan.html

William Henry Fleming Bird (3 March ,1896-1971) UK art lecturer and writer -magazine sf

http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bird_william_henry_fleming

Paul Eldridge  (05/05/1888 –1982)  American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/29/obituaries/paul-eldridge.html

Emperor Tang – Skeptic

CLOSER than my body's shadow

Follows the blind nameless One,

Carrying in his tightened, yellow fist

Time, the thin sputtering candle,

And in his swollen cheeks

Death, the grey wind.

So fill and refill my deep, golden horn

With the strongest wine,

O wise men of China,

Before declaiming in magnificent verse

My immortality,

That I may nod,

My eyes glittering with dreams,

And believe --

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bestof1923a.html#13

Frank Marshall Davis (Dec 31, 1905- 1987) American journalist, poet, and political and labor movement activist.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/frank-marshall-davis

http://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/lizs-weekend-poetry-series-frank-marshall-davis/

Sites:

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent.html

http://www.nh.gov/nharts/

http://pvspade.com/Logic/

http://bostonreview.net/BR23.6/sorrentino.html

http://www.best-poems.net/

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10660/pg10660.html

History:

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http://www.fortressoflouisbourg.ca/Overview/mid/12

1942, William Faulkner took a job writing with Warner Brothers pictures in Hollywood

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001203/

Bonus Poem:

Motion of Stars And Stillness

(E se di me gioia ti vince)

And if through me joy conquers you

it will be a knot of stars.

No other hour consoles us

but that of silence; and the mutable

face of air and hills fails to satisfy,

the light rotates its hollow skies

at the edge of darkness.

Motion and stillness of the stars

hurls night at us in swift deceit:

stones that the water bared at every mouth.

Children are still asleep in your sleep.

I even hear a cry now and then

break off and become flesh;

and a clapping of hands and a voice

opening me to unknown sweeteness.

                              Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/FiveItalianPoets.htm#_Toc326225722