September 26

Events:

Sept. 26 Farmington (NEW DATE: 4th Wednesday of the month)   6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington – Adult Poets and Writers Group (795-5944, http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/poetwrite.html )

Born:

0926

St. Francis of Assisi (1181 – 10/03/1226) Umbrian saint

http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/1004_francis.asp

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot 1725-Oct 2,1804 Steam-powered automobile

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm

Moses Mendelssohn,1729 -86 Ger/Jew philosopher/critic/Bible translator

http://www.amazon.com/Moses-Mendelssohn/e/B001HMSRH8

John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed  , 1774 - March 18, 1845), frontier nurseryman

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/usa/people/Appleseedindex.shtml

Max Ehrmann (, 1872 – September 9, 1945) American writer, poet, and attorney / 1927 prose poem "Desiderata"

http://allpoetry.com/Max_Ehrmann

Edwin Keppel Bennett, 1887 – 13 June 1958), English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AEdwin%20Keppel%20Bennett&page=1

 T homas  S tearns  Eliot (1888-01/04/1965) ) American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize for literature 1948

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

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/t_s_eliot.html

Martin Heidegger 1889-May 26,1976 German philosopher,

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

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_heidegger.html

George Gershwin (1898 – 07/11/1937) US composer Rhapsody In Blue

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-gershwin-mn0000197918

http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/billie-holiday-lyrics/embraceable-you-lyrics.html

William Empson (1906-April 15,1984 ) Eng critic / poet Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-empson

Bill France, Sr.,(1909 - 1992)American car racing executive

http://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/halloffame/1990/Bill_France_Sr_main.htm

Matilde Camus, 1919- Spanish poet and researcher

http://www.matildecamus.com/

Marty Robbins (1925 – 12/08/1982) US singer, songwriter You Gave me a Mountain

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/robbins_marty/artist.jhtml

Buland Al Haidary, 1926 -96 Iraqi poet

Old Age,

Another winter,
And here am I,
By the side of the stove,
that a woman might dream of me,
That I might bury in her breast
A secret she would not mock;
Dreaming that in my fading years
I might spring forth as light,
And she would say:
This light is mine;
Let no woman draw near it.
Here,
By the side of the stove,
Another winter,
And here Am I,
Spinning my dreams and fearing them,
Afraid her eyes would mock
My bald, idiotic head,
My greying, aged soul,
Afraid her feet would kick
My love,
And here, by the side of the stove,
I would be lightly mocked by a woman.
Alone,
Without love, or dreams, or a woman,
And tomorrow I shall die of the cold within,
Here, by the side of the stove.

http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/Buland+Al-Haidari.htm

http://users.humboldt.edu/mseldridge/engl240/student_projects/Al-Haydari/haydaripoems.htm

Jane Smiley (1949- ) US writer, Pulitzer Prize

http://knopfdoubleday.com/smiley/

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/bookauth/ba980528.htm

http://www.iowalum.com/pulitzerprize/smiley.html

Passed:

0926

Lafcadio Hearn,Patrick Lafcadio Hearn/ Koizumi Yakumo(27 June 1850 –1904), international writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19738

http://www.amazon.com/Lafcadio-Hearn/e/B001ITXE0A

Katherine Harris Bradley ("Michael Field";1848- 1914)

'A Girl'

A Girl,
Her soul a deep-wave pearl
Dim, lucent of all lovely mysteries;
A face flowered for heart's ease,
A brow's grace soft as seas
Seen through faint forest-trees:
A mouth, the lips apart,
Like aspen-leaflets trembling in the breeze
From her tempestuous heart.
Such: and our souls so knit,
I leave a page half-writ --
The work begun
Will be to heaven's conception done,
If she come to it.

http://www.sappho.com/poetry/m_field.html#AGirl

Harriet Monroe (12/23/1860 –1936) US poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harriet-monroe

Hugh John Lofting(January 14, 1886 –, 1947) British author

http://puddleby.tripod.com/author.html

George Santayana (12/16/1863–1952) Spanish American philosopher, poet and humanist

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

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/santayana-george

Paul Newman (01/26/1925 –2008) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/

Sites:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7565/7565-h/7565-h.htm’

http://forthepoets.intheviewfinder.net/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31592/31592-h/31592-h.htm

http://www.mooreslaw.org/

http://militantrecommender.blogspot.com/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Adventures-of-the-Real-Tom-Sawyer-169773916.html?c=y&story=fullstory

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/28/entertainment/la-et-book-20110628

History:

1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon

Bonus Poem

The Leaving

My father said I could not do it,
but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands
and the looking of the stars which moved right through me
the way the water moved through the canals with a voice
that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering
and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water,
all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands
twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors,
all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out
of the far fields of the stars, the morning came,
and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses
just after it has been rung, before the metal
begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not.
and the pond was--I could see as I laid
the last peach in the water--full of fish and eyes.

                                                                         -  Brigit Pegeen Kelly

http://www.poemhunter.com/brigit-pegeen-kelly/poems/

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