July 31

Events:

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

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Aug 19, Kittery Point, Maine Black & White & Read All Over KAA Reception and Poetry Reading, 4 to 6pm (Poetry Reading at 5pm) Black & White Paintings, Prints, Photographs & Sculpture Some pieces paired with poems-in-response by seacoast-area poets / Poetry chapbook for sale including poems by Marlane Bottino, Agnes Charlesworth, Mike Gately, Kimberly Green, Sally Hirshberg, Elizabeth Kirschner, Bob Mangion, Johanna Mangion, Julie-Anne McDonald, Martha Petersen, and Tammi Truax.

http://www.kitteryartassociation.org/exhibit_schedule.html

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And:

Aug 3 Laconia Poet Charlotte Cox will read from her husband Larry L. Cox’s new book Close Encounters with the Common Loon 6-8 Annie’s Books,330 Union Ave Laconia, NH 03246 (603) 528-4445 · 

http://www.anniesbooks.com/displaylocation.php?id=laconia

http://ourbooks.myshopify.com/products/close-encounters-with-the-common-loon

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Born:

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Friedrich Wöhler ( 1800- Sept 23,1882)  German Chemist /Artificial creation of urea-one of the fathers of modern bio-chemistry

http://www.fullbooks.com/Scientific-American-Supplement-No-3621.html

John Ericsson  (1803- March 8,1889 ) Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer (screw propeller)/Built the ironclad USS Monitor

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/54.html

William S. Clark, 1825 - 1826 – March 9, 1886)US  professor of chemistry, botany and zoology, a colonel during the American Civil War

http://www.umass.edu/pastchancellors/clark.html

Helena P. Blavatsky 1831,– 8 May 1891,Russian/ British founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19737

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm

Peter Rosegger, 1843 - 26 June1918) Austrian poet

http://www.waldheimathof.at/en-vacations_styria-peter_rosegger.shtml

The Other, Too, Is You (Auch der andre, der bist du)

                                                                                                 from Mein Lied, translated by Walter Aue (1911)

http://poems.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Peter+Rosegger

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860 –Aug 22,1940) American artist and naturalist

http://www.darvillsrareprints.com/walcottflowers.htm

Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 05/12/1985) French painter and sculptor.

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1633

Brett Halliday Davis Dresser1904-February 4, 1977.  American mystery writer The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940),

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

Milton Friedman (1912 – 11/16/2006) US economist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1976/friedman-autobio.html/

Irv Kupcinet (1912 – 11/10/2003) American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, television talk-show host, and a radio broadcast personality

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

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1105563/

Hank Jones ( 1918- May 16,2010 ) Jazz Piano Luminary

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hank-jones-mn0000558339

Curt Gowdy ( 1919 – 02/20/2006) US sports announcer

http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/gowdy.html

http://www.imba.com/epics/curt-gowdy-state-park

Levi Primo 1919- April 11, 1987, Italian-Jewish, Auschwitz-survivor  writer and chemist

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

Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921 – 03/11/1971) US writer / Activist

http://www.whitneyyoungfilm.com/

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1136

Lynne Reid Banks ( 1929-   ) English Novelist The Indian in the Cupboard

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3084

Cees Nooteboom 1933 Dutch novelist, poet, travel-writer, and essayist 

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

Sherry Lansing (1944 – ) US film director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005121/

Kim Addonizio 1954- US poet   

http://www.kimaddonizio.com/Site/Site/_welcome.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kim-addonizio

http://webdelsol.com/LITARTS/kim/

J. K. Rowling (1965 – ) English writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6304

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746830/

Passed:

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William Courtenay ( c.1342-1396) Archbishop of Canterbury, 1381-96

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04446a.htm

Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824-71) US Poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/cary-phoebe

BURNING THE LETTERS

I SAID that they were valueless,

I d rather have them not,

All that since made them precious

Was, or should have been, forgot ;

I would do it very willingly,

And not because I ought,

But I did not, somehow, find it

Quite so easy as I thought.

One was full of pleasant flattery,

I do not think I m vain,

And yet I paused a moment

To read it once again.

One repeated dear, old phrases 

I had heard a thousand times ; 

I had read him once some verses, 

And another praised my rhymes. 

One was just exactly like him, 

Such a pretty little note ! 

One was interspersed with poetry 

That lovers always quote. 

I don t know why I read them, 

Unless t was just to know, 

Since they once had been so precious, 

What had ever made them so. 

I had told him when we parted 

To think no more of me ; 

And I m sure he s nothing to me, 

Indeed, why should he be ? 

Yet the flame sunk down to ashes, 

And I sat and held them still ; 

But I said that I would burn them, 

And, some other time, I will ! 

http://archive.org/stream/poemsandpara00caryrich/poemsandpara00caryrich_djvu.txt

Andrew Johnson (12/29/1808 –1875) US President (17), VP (16

http://www.potus.com/ajohnson.html

Francis Ledwidge  (August 19 1887-1917) Irish WWI poet  

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/ledwidge-francis

http://archive.org/stream/completepoemsoff00ledwiala/completepoemsoff00ledwiala_djvu.txt

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (06/29/1900 –1944) French writer, adventurer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/exupery.htm

Jim Reeves  (Aug20,1923-1964) Country Singer/songwriter Musician He'll Have to Go

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-reeves-mn0000903609

Bud Powell (  Sept 27,1904 - 1966) Seminal bop pianist and composer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bud-powell-mn0000640675

Margaret Kennedy (April 23,1896-1967)English novelist and playwright. The Constant Nymph

http://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Kennedy/e/B001HOIFH8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Pascual Jordan  (18 October 1902 –1980) Ger. theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303241

Philip Van Doren Stern (Sept 10,1900-1984) US Author It's A Wonderful Life

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-Van-Doren-Stern/e/B001IQWGFC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1343726853&sr=1-1

Michael Harrington (02/24/1928 –1989) American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America

http://theactivist.org/blog/archives/michael-harrington-marxism-and-democracy

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1969

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Harrington/e/B001HCYR1I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Poul Anderson  ( Nov 25,1926  -  2001) US SF  writer Tau Zero

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3

Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 –, 2010   ) prominent figure in the American music industry.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mitch+miller/biography.html

Sites:

http://virginiabookarts.org/

http://bachmann.house.gov/

http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/

http://www.nhstateparks.com/

http://www.conwaydailysun.com/

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/index.html

History:

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1485, William Caxton printed Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1930, The Shadow debuted as the mysterious narrator of the Street and Smith radio program Detective Story Hour 

http://www.shadowsanctum.net/

Bonus Poem:

By Loureine Aber

http://www.bartleby.com/300/2368.html