March 16

Events:

March 16 Washington, D.C. "Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry," Their relationship will be discussed by Joseph Fruscione, author .Library of Congress at noon in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The lecture is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. Book sales and a book signing will follow the program. The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress fosters and enhances the public’s appreciation of literature. visit Click here. The Library of Congress, website at Click here.

Coming Event;

April 20 Canterbury, NH WIND IN THE TIMOTHY POETRY FESTIVAL 7:00 pm. Elkins Library

Featuring; Marie Harris, W.E. Butts, Julia Shipley, & Kate Caley .There will be an opportunity for a few poets to read afterwards, one poem, on the shortish side sans introduction…let the poem speak for itself.  Click here  ;  Click here

Born:

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George Neumark, 1621 –July 18,1681, German educator. Neumark is best remembered as author of the hymn, "If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee."

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Click here  (1751 – Click here/1836)  US President (4)

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John Pope 1822-1892 Major General (Union volunteers)

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Sully Rene Francois Armand Click here (1839-1907) French poet ;Lit/ Nobel ( 1901)

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Maxim Gorki, 1868 –June 19,1936 USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths)

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Mother F. rances A. Alice Monica Forbes, 1869 -1936 Scottish author

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Percy MacKaye (Aug.31,1875-1956), NY poet and playwright

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Hymn Of The New World

A star a star in the west!
Out of the wave it rose:
And it led us forth on a world-far quest;
Where the mesas scorched and the moorlands froze.
It lured us without rest:
With yearning, yearning—ah!
It sang (as it beckoned us)
A Click here vast, adventurous-
America!

A star a star in the night!
Out of our hearts it dawned !
And it poured within its wonderful light;
Where our hovels gloomed and our hunger spawned
It healed our passionate blight:
And burning, burning—ah!
It clanged (as it kindled us)
Of a freedom proud and perilous-
America!

A star—a star in the dawn!
Bright from God s brow it gleams!
Like a Click here in ages gone
With hallowed song its holy beams
Urge us forever on:
For chanting, chanting—ah!
It builds (as it blesses us)
A union strong, harmonious-
America !

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Ethel Anderson, 1883 -1958 Australian poet

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Click here, (1892-1938) Peruvian French poet

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Click here ( 1903 – Click here/2001)  US senator (MT)

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Robert Rossen , 1908 - Click here, Click here US director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)

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Click here  (1912 – Click here/1993)  US First Lady (38)
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Studs Terkel (1912-10/31/2008) US writer ,

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Dr. Robert H. Bowman, 1915 -  missions pioneer. In 1945, along with John Broger and William J. Roberts, Bowman helped found the Far East Broadcasting Company. .. reaches thousands of Pacific island clusters with the Gospel through Christian radio.

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Click here  (1916 – Click here/2004)  US actor

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Click here (1920) NYC-born children's writer

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Click here  (1926 – )  US comic actor
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Click here  (1927 – Click here/2003) US politician

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Don Carpenter (1931 – 07/28/1995) US writer

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Click here  (1937 – Click here/1996)  Israeli-US cognitive psychologist
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Click here - Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)

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Margaret [Edith] Weis, Click here - US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

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Hannu Niklander  (1951- ) Finnish poet, short story writer, critic, and essayist

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D. L. Snyder-Manning(1951-) US DelightfulNemesis of famed poet

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Click here  (1953 – )  French actor

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Patty Griffin, Click here - American singer and songwriter

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Passed:

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Richard Burbage, 1618-19  original performer in Shakspeare's plays

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Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Click here - Italian playwright,

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Józef Julian Sękowski (31 March –1800-1858 Polish-Russian Click here, Click here, and Click here.

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R. S.[Robert Smith]  Surtees (05/17/1803 -1864) English writer

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Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley,Aug.21,1872- Click here  English illustrator (Salome)

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Roy Bean, 1828-Click here  American jurist

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ROY BEAN

Cowboys, come and hear the story
Of Roy Bean in all his glory,
"The law west of Pecos," read his sign.
We must let our ponies take us
To a town on lower Pecos
Where the high bridge spans the canyon thin and fine.

He was born one day in Toyah
Where he learned to be a lawyer
A teacher and a barber and the mayor.
He was cook and old-shoe mender,
Sometimes preacher and bartender
And it cost two bits to have him cut your hair.

He was right smart of a hustler
And considerable a rustler,
And at mixing up an eggnog he was grand;
He was clever, he was merry,
He could drink a Tom and Jerry.
On occasion at a round-up took a hand.

Though the story isn't funny,
There was once Roy had no money
Which for him was not so very strange or rare;
So he went to help Pop Wyndid,
But he got so absent-minded
That he put his RB brand on old Pap's steer.

Old Pap got right smart angry,
Roy Bean went down to Langtry
Where he opened up an office and a store.
Where he'd sell you drinks or buttons
Or another rancher's muttons,
Though the latter made the other feller sore.

Once there came from Austin City
A young dude reported witty
And out of Bean he sorta guessed he'd take a rise;
So he got unusual frisky
As he up and called for whisky
Sayin', "Bean, now hurry up, gol durn your eyes."

Then down he threw ten dollars,
Which the same Roy quickly collars
And the same Roy holds to nine and hands back one;
Then the dude he gave a holler,
When he saw that single dollar
And right then began the merriment and fun.

The dude, he slammed the table
Just as hard as he was able,
The price of whisky was too high, he swore.
Said Roy Bean, "For all your fussin'
And your most outrageous cussin'
You are fined the other dollar by the law."

"On this place I own a lease.
I'm the Justice of the Peace,
And the law west of the Pecos all is here,
And you've acted very badly.
" Then the dude he went off sadly
While down his lily cheek there rolled a tear.

One fine day they found a dead man
Who in life had been a red man
Though it's doubtless he was nothing else than bad.
They called Bean to view the body.
First he took a drink of toddy,
Then he listed all the things the dead man had.

For a red man he was tony,
For he had a pretty pony
And a dandy bit and saddle and a rope;
He'd a very fine Navajo rug
And a quart within his jug
And a pony that was dandy an the lope.

So the find it was quite rare-o,
For he'd been a cocinero
And his pay day hadn't been so far away.
He'd a brand-new fine white Stetson
And a silver Smith and Wesson
While a purse af forty dollars jingled gay.

Said Roy Bean, "You'll learn a lesson,
For you have a Smith and Wesson
And to carry implements of war is wrong.
Forty dollars I will fine you,
For we couldn't well confine you
As already you've been layin' around too long."

Now, you boys have heard the story
Of Roy Bean in all his glory
He's the man who was the justice and the law,
He was handy with his hooks,
And he was ornery in his looks,
And just now I ain't gonna tell you any more.

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Click here  (Click here/1841 –1914)  Canadian scientist

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Charles Albert Gobat, May 21, 1843- 1914 - Swiss politician, Nobel Peace Prize

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Selma Lagerlöf, 1858-1940  Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate 1909

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Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, ( Jan.3,1893 -Click here)  French writer/poet,

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Börries von Münchhausen, (1874-1945)  German poet

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Click here  (Click here/1902 –1971)  US governor (NY)
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History:

March 16

1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes

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Bonus Poem:
Bonsai

All that I love
I fold over once
And once again
And keep in a box
Or a slit in a hollow post
Or in my Click here.

All that I love?
Why, yes, but for the moment-
And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps easy,
Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,
A roto picture of a queen,
A blue Indian Click here, even
A money bill.

It’s utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart’s control
Moment to moment
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s size

Till seashells are broken pieces
From God’s own bright teeth,
And life and love are real
Things you can run and
Breathless hand over
To the merest child.

                  Edith Tiempo

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