AUGUST 28

Events:

Aug. 28 Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston        Ori Gersht: History Repeating

The Israeli artist Ori Gersht has had an explosive impact in the art world—literally. He's best known for videos that start out looking like restagings of Old Master still lifes, then as you wait for nothing to happen, a great deal does: a vase of flowers, based on a canvas by the Dutch master Jan van Huysum, gets blown up in balletic slow motion; a pomegranate derived from the Spanish painter Juan Sánchez Cotán is ripped apart by a bullet, causing a supersonic passage through the fruit that takes seconds to unfold.

The MFA is open 7 days a week.,at 10am.       http://www.mfa.org/visit

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/08/24/ori-gersht-shows-explosive-still-lifes-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-photos.html

Of interest;

September 13, Derry: The Hyla Brook Reading Series will present featured reader Sharon Olds, whose poetry collection, The Dead and the Living, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. At 6:30 p.m., Frost Farm. Direct questions to Robert Crawford via email at bobik9.aol.com (www.facebook.com).

September 13, Portsmouth: Writers in the Loft will present Lee Child, as he presents his new book, A Wanted Man. Tickets are $42 each or $39 for Music Hall members. Tickets may be purchased over the phone at (603) 436-2400 or through their website at www.musichall.org. Book signing from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Reading and Q&A at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall Loft.

Born:

0828

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749 –March 22,1832 German poet, novelist, playwright,courtier, and natural philosopher,

http://www.amazon.com/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/e/B001KIOIEU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1346144960&sr=8-1

Elizabeth Ann Seton   1774 -January 4, 1821. Educator,Saint

http://www.setonheritage.org/

http://www.setonshrine.com/

Thomas Aird   (28 August 1802 –1876), Scottish poet

http://www.poemhunter.com/thomas-aird/poems/

Very Jones (1813- May 8, 1880)  USA American poet and mystic

The Latter Rain

THE latter rain,-- it falls in anxious haste

Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,

Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste

As if it would each root's lost strength repair;

But not a blade grows green as in the spring;

No swelling twig puts forth its thickening leaves;

The robins only mid the harvests sing,

Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves;

The rain falls still,-- the fruit all ripened drops,

It pierces chestnut-burr and walnut-shell;

The furrowed fields disclose the yellow crops;

Each bursting pod of talents used can tell;

And all that once received the early rain

Declare to man it was not sent in vain.

http://theotherpages.org/poems/very01.html#2

J.(oseph)  Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer,

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1962

Count Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828– 11/07/1910)  Russian writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866243/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Tolstoy,%20Leo,%20graf,%201828-1910

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/

Ivor Gurney (1890-Dec 26,1937   ) Eng musician & poet War's Embers

http://www.geneva.edu/~dksmith/gurney/lyrics.html

http://theyoungpersonsguide-ns.blogspot.com/2012/05/vocal-songs.html

Edison Tesla Marshall ( 1894 - October 29, 1967) American short story writer and novelist.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550861/

http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/marshall_edison_1894_1967_/

http://www.readcentral.com/book/Edison-Marshall/Read-The-Sky-Line-of-Spruce-Online

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6695

Liam O'Flaherty   ( 1896- Sept 7 ,1984    ) Irish   Novelist Thy Neighbour's Wife

http://www.bookconsult.com/LiamOFlaherty/biog.htm

Charles Boyer    (1899 – 08/26/1978)   French actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000964/

Sir John Betjeman (1906– 05/19/1984)  English writer ( P.L. Eng 1927 ) Summoned By Bells

http://www.amazon.com/John-Betjeman/e/B001IYTJGS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1346145013&sr=8-1

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/betjeman-john

William Robertson Davies 91913 - December 2, 1995) Canadian  novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Fifth Business

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2441/the-art-of-fiction-no-107-robertson-davies

Jack Vance, 1916 -  US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?136

Jack Kirby, 1917 – Feb 6,1994 cartoonist  (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)

http://www.pigdogproductions.com/jack%20kirby.html

Janet  Frame  (1924-jan. 2004) New Zealand  novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer  The End

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/janet-frame.aspx

Donald O'Connor   (1925 – 09/27/2003)   US entertainer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640307/

Gloria Leonard  (1940 – )  US publisher

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502628/

Vonda N[eel]  McIntyre, 1948 - US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?423

Rita Dove (1952-    ) Afro-Amer poet 7^th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry1987

http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/dove/dove.htm

Golden Oldie

I made it home early, only to get
stalled in the driveway-swaying
at the wheel like a blind pianist caught in a tune
meant for more than two hands playing.
The words were easy, crooned
by a young girl dying to feel alive, to discover
a pain majestic enough
to live by. I turned the air conditioning off,
leaned back to float on a film of sweat,
and listened to her sentiment:
Baby, where did our love go?-a lament
I greedily took in
without a clue who my lover
might be, or where to start looking.

Copyright © 1995 Mississippi Review. Online Source

http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/dove/onlinepoems.htm

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rita-dove

Daniel Stern  (1957 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827663/

Jack Black 1969- Actor/musician

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085312/

Passed:

0828

St. Augustine the Blessed   November 13, 354 –430),Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

James Wilson, Sept 14 1742 - 1798  Scot/US signer (Decl of Ind), US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000591

 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt    (10/19/1784 –1859)   Englis h  writer Story of Rimini

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hunt-leigh

William Lyon Mackenzie, (March12, 1795 –1861) American / Canadian journalist,politician,and rebellion leader.

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=38684

George Douglas   Brown ( jan 26,1869  - 1902 )Scot.  novelist The House With the Green Shutters

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/brown/george_douglas/index.html

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.A High Wind in Jamaica

http://www.booksellerworld.com/richard-hughes.htm

Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 –1978, ) American historian and novelist.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556704/

Robert Walker   (10/13/1918 –1951)   US actor ,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908153/

Bruce Catton, Oct 9,1899-1978 -US historian/writer (Civil War) Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954

http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaclassics_bcatton.html

William Stafford, 1914)-1993 -  American poet

Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing

The light along the hills in the morning
comes down slowly, naming the trees
white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate.

Notice what this poem is not doing.

A house, a house, a barn, the old
quarry, where the river shrugs--
how much of this place is yours?

Notice what this poem is not doing.

Every person gone has taken a stone
to hold, and catch the sun. The carving
says, "Not here, but called away."

Notice what this poem is not doing.

The sun, the earth, the sky, all wait.
The crowns and redbirds talk. The light
along the hills has come, has found you.

Notice what this poem has not done.

http://www.poemhunter.com/william-stafford/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/224

David Wright, ( Feb 23,1920    -1994 )S.African/ Brit poet,

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/05/obituaries/david-wright-74-south-african-poet.html

Sites:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40442/40442-h/40442-h.htm

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/

http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/

http://www.lancasterfair.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40434/40434-h/40434-h.htm

http://www.pressroomnh.com/

http://www.instituteforliberty.org/index.php?src=blog&year=2010&month=6

Bonus Poem:

                                                                              By Robert Underwood Johnson

http://www.bartleby.com/248/1109.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CEED7153DEF3ABC4152DFB566838D609EDE

http://www.dailycamera.com/nation-world-news/ci_21406926/web-comic-helps-fuel-donations-teslas-lab

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/now-hear-this/4394230/Save-Tesla-s-lab-

http://wardenclyffeproject.com/

http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/wardenclyffe.html