September 27

Events:

September 27, Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, with feature ;perennial Slam Richmond team member and NPS finalist John Survivor Blake  at  Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com ,  facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )    http://www.millystavern.com/

September 27, Wolfeboro:  The Poets in the Attic host an open mike at the Country Bookseller, 7-9 p.m. (Gordon or Cheryl Lang, 539-4472 or poetsintheattic.gmail.com ).

September 27, Newmarket Crackskull’s Poetry  Open Mic with feature; Derek JG Williams. 7pm Hosted by Jenn Monroe. / www.thepoetgirl.com!  http://www.crackskulls.com/

Born:

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Samuel Adams (1722 – 10/02/1803) US patriot statesman, political philosopher, and writer http://www.samueladams.net/

http://www.samueladams.com/age-gate.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2findex.aspx

Epes Sergeant, 1813 -80 US Author, editor, poet, and playwright "A Life on the Ocean Wave"

http://ingeb.org/songs/alifeont.html

http://www.eapoe.org/people/sargente.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27457/27457-h/27457-h.htm

Bethany Veney ( 1815- November 16, 1916 Afro-American  woman author

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/veney/veney.html

Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 05/11/1881) Swiss writer

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henri-Fr%E9d%E9ric_Amiel/

Thomas Nast, (1840- December 7, 1902)  ).German- American  "father of the American cartoon,"

http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/portfolio.htm

Edward Noyes Westcott (1846 – 03/31/1898) US writer

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Edward%20Noyes%20Westcott&ie=UTF8&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank

Sam Ervin  (/1896 – 04/23/1985)  US Senator (NC)

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_ErvinSam.htm

Clementine Paddleford (1900 – 11/13/1967) US writer

http://thefoundrecipebox.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-honor-of-clementine-paddleford-joe.html

William Empson (1906 – 15 April 1984) English literary critic and poet.Missing Dates

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n10/frank-kermode/the-savage-life

Jim Thompson (1906-April 7,1977)  American novelist and screenwriter

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

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/jim-thompson/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860292/

Louis Auchincloss (1917 –January 26, 2010)) American novelist, short-story writer, and attorney

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1759/the-art-of-fiction-no-138-louis-auchincloss

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/10790/

http://www.amazon.com/Louis-Auchincloss/e/B00456FINE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1348736492&sr=1-1

Miklós Jancsó 1921- Hungarian film  director

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

Louis Albert Johnson (1924, Nov. 1, 1988 )  New Zealand poet

From invisible

all the while we're waiting, but nothing
nothing comes along – Nothing
with a capital
N.

all the green we have here, all the brown
of thighs & shoulders. not wasted
on the sunlight, no
not at all!

out where we could have found each other.
rumpled newspapers. fish-sticks
mascara
Nobody wandering
loveless.

nobody in a baseball cap
nobody at the petrol pump
nobody receiving the prize
at the spelling contest.

no one eating spaghetti out of a can.

— Copyright Pooja Mittal, 2001.

http://www.poetrynz.net/archives/issue-23/

http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=77

Joyce Johnson(1935- ), US writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/joyce-johnson/

Kathy Whitworth 1939- , Professional golf's all-time leading tournament winner

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

Kay Ryan  (1945).US Poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kay-ryan

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet-extra.html?_r=0

Passed:

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Thomas Traherne(1637-74) Eng poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/traherne-thomas

Remy de Gourmont (04/04/1858 –1915) French writer

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

Hair
THERE is great mystery, Simone, In the forest of your hair. It smells of hay, and of the stone Cattle have been lying on; Of timber, and of new-baked bread Brought to be one's breakfast fare; And of the flowers that have grown Along a wall abandonèd; Of leather and of winnowed grain; Of briers and ivy washed by rain; You smell of rushes and of ferns Reaped when day to evening turns; You smell of withering grasses red Whose seed is under hedges shed; You smell of nettles and of broom; Of milk, and fields in clover-bloom; You smell of nuts, and fruits that one Gathers in the ripe season; And of the willow and the lime Covered in their flowering time; You smell of honey, of desire, You smell of air the noon makes shiver: You smell of earth and of the river; You smell of love, you smell of fire. There is great mystery, Simone, In the forest of your hair. translated by Jethro Bithell

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/g/hair.html

Babe Didrikson Zaharias  (06/26/1914 –1956)  US golf great

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c21615/

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle;) September 10, 1886 -1961 American Imagist  poet, novelist and memoirist

http://www.imagists.org/hd/

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/hd.htm

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 –1991) English writer/poet January 1940

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/poetry_30s0.html

Sites:

http://www.amazon.com/Romes-Last-Citizen-Legacy-Mortal/dp/0312681232

http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/nov2002/contents/Interviews.html

http://www.archipelago.org/vol10-34/young.htm]

http://poem.org/

http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/100-thousand-poets-for-change-looking-for-organizers-2/

History:

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1929 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was published.

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Bonus Poem:

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

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