March 7
Events:
March 7 Plymouth State University Boyd Auditorium NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM
March 7 Rochester Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Nute High School Senior/writer/story teller Rees Saufley. begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)
March 7th, Wells Maine, Wesley McNair, poet and author 4:30 p.m All events are held annually at York County Community College and all events are free. 112 College Drive in Wells, Maine
http://www.yccc.edu/WhatWeOffer/VisitingArtistSeries
March 7th Manchester, Slam Free or Die– Featuring Justin Woo & Slam 15! Followed by open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , www.facebook.com/slamfreeordie
March 7[-9], Boston, MA: AWP panelists Ewa Chrusciel, Alice Fogel, Jeff Friedman, Jennifer Militello, and Laurie Zimmerman will read their poems and comment on New Hampshire’s role as inspiration in the panel, Poems Sprung From Granite. From 4:30 to 5:45 p.m., Room 105, Hynes Convention Center (www.awpwriter.org). http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/152582-your-essential-awp-itinerary/?rel=inf
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview
ThisJustIn:
March 13 EXETER:- 6:30 p.m. - Water Street Bookstore, - Poetry Reading with featured readers Julie Dickson and Rosemary Staples, followed by open mic. Contact John Ferguson, 778 9731.
Born:
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Alessandro Manzoni (1785-May 22,1873) Italian poet and novelist I Promessi Sposi
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704422204576130253915553800.html
from Il Cinque Maggio
Two ages stood in arms arrayed,
Contending which should victor be:
He spake: -- his mandate they obeyed,
And bowed to hear their destiny.
He stepped between them, to assume
The mastery, and pronounce their doom;
Then vanished, and inactive wore
Life's remnant out on that lone shore.
What envy did his palmy state,
What pity his reverses move,
Object of unrelenting hate,
And unextinguishable love!
As beat innumerable waves
O'er the last floating plank that saves
One sailor from the wreck, whose eye
Intently gazes o'er the main,
Far in the distance to descry
Some speck of hope, -- but all in vain;
Did countless waves of memory roll
Incessant, thronging on his soul:
Recording, for a future age,
The tale of his renown,
How often on the immortal page
His hand sank weary down!
http://allpoetry.com/poems/by/Alessandro%20Manzoni
Sir Arthur Helps (1813 -1875) English historian, novelist and essayist
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30238/30238-h/30238-h.htm
Luther Burbank (1849 – 04/11/1926) US botanist
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/LBSite/lobby.html
Maurice Ravel (1875- Dec 28,1937) Franch composer
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/ravel.php
William York Tindall,(1903-Oct ,1981).US literary critic and James Joyce scholar A Reader's Guide to James Joyce (1995)
http://philosopedia.org/index.php/William_York_Tindall
http://www.amazon.com/William-York-Tindall/e/B001KIARQI
Rolf Jacobsen, (1907- ), Norwegian poet Secret Life (1954), The Silence Afterwards (1965) and Night Watch (1985)
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/J/JacobsenRolf/GuardianAnge/index.html
Kobo Abe (1924-1993) Japanese Avant-garde novelist and playwright The Woman in the Dunes (1962) and The Face of Another (1964).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm
Eduardo Paolozzi, (1924 – April 22, 2005) British sculptor (Hydra)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1015392/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/sir%20eduardo-paolozzi/
Willard Scott (1934 – ) US TV person
http://www.today.com/id/6694523/site/todayshow/ns/today/t/willard-scott/
Georges Perec (1936-1982) French novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist, and literary innovator La Vie: mode d'emploi Obscurity hasn’t united death
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/perec.htm
Janet Guthrie, 1938 – US race car driver (1st woman to race in Indie 500)
http://www.racerchicks.com/racers/guthrie.html
Townes Van Zandt, (1944- Jan 1, 1997 ). Texas troubadour and a legend in songwriting circles, , Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard took his song "Pancho and Lefty" all the way to No. 1 in 1983. For the Sake of the Song
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/van-zandt-townes/waiting-round-to-die-983.html
Elizabeth Moon (1945- ) US Novelist The Speed of Dark
http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Moon/e/B000APWQCAhttp://www.elizabethmoon.com/
Matthew Fisher 1946 - Procol Harum ;1967 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Matthew+Fisher
Peter Wolf 1946 - USA rock singer The J Geils Band 1982 single 'Centrefold'
http://www.peterwolf.com/
Jules Shear 1952- U Musician Pop songwriter
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jules-shear-mn0000308968
Robert Harris (1957- ). English novelist Fatherland (1991), Enigma (1995), Archangel (1998), The Fear Index (2011).
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Harris/e/B000APBPA4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1362652575&sr=8-1
Rick Bass (1958- ). writer ;a geologist and an environmental activist
http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Bass/e/B000AQ3YSO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1362573783&sr=8-3
Bret Easton Ellis, 1964 - American writer Less Than Zero (1985), American Psycho (1991),
http://www.amazon.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis/e/B000AQ3LZU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1362652644&sr=8-1
Passed:
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Aristotle (?/0384 –0322 BC) Greek philosopher
http://www.egs.edu/library/aristotle/biography/
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 –1274) Italian religious scholar
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas
Sir Arthur Helps (1813 –1875) English writer
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/helps/index.html
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) US Author Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl/harriet-ann-jacobs-biography.html
Emily Pauline Johnson, (Tekahionwake) (March 10, 1861-1913 )- Mohawk Canadian poet and actress Lullaby of the Iroquois
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emily-pauline-johnson
Edwin Markham (April 23, 1852 -1940) USA Poet The Man With the Hoe
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/markham/poems.htm
Lucy Parsons 1853-1942 Anarchist labor organizer
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/lparsons/lparsonsarchive.html
Percy Wyndham Lewis (11/18/1882 –1957) Canadian artist –writer &painter
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lewis_wyndham
Stevie Smith ((09/20/1902 -1971) English writer
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/stevie-smith
Salon d’Automne
One thousand and one naked ladies
With a naivete
At once pedantic and unsympathetic
Deck the walls
Of the Salon d’Automne.
This is the Slap school of art,
It would be nice
To smack them
Slap, slap, slap,
That would be nice.
It is possible
One might tire of smacking them In time
But not so soon
As one tires of seeing them.
We too
Have our pedantic and unsympathetic
School,
It used to show
A feeling for animals.
The English are splendid with animals,
There was The Stag at Bay
And Faithful unto Death,
And Man’s Best Friend the horse this time
Usually under gunfire,
The English are splendid with animals.
That older school
Was perhaps
On an intellectual level
With the Salon d’Automne.
Nowadays, of course,
We are more advanced:
The bad modern painter
Has lost the naivete
Of that earlier school
And in its place
Has developed a talent
For making the work of his betters
Seem stale
By uninspired Imitation.
Really
This is more tiring
Than the thousand and one
Naked ladies.
http://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/foremother-poet-stevie-smith-1902-71/
Bosley Crowther (07/13/1905 –1981) US writer –columnist/ film critic
http://www.flicks.com/movie/reviewer/Bosley_Crowther.asp
Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), - 1988, American female impersonator and actor. Had the 1984 UK No.16 single 'You think You're a Man.'
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/divine-mn0000797670
Stanley Kubrick (07/26/1928 –1999) US/ Brit director (Sparticus,Lolita,00 A Space Odyssey).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/kubrick.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/bio
Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006) Bluesman of Africa, Guitarist; Talking Timbuktu
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ali-farka-tour%C3%A9-mn0000006613
Jimmy Boyd (Jan 9,1939 -2009) Actor/ Singer I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimmy+Boyd
Sites:
http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/?/readers/whats-falmouth-reading-2013
http://www.apachecafe.info/
https://www.facebook.com/WhyIlovethisbook
http://books.google.com/books?id=B2x43wjhbrwC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22Leonard+Wolf%22+happening+house&source=bl&ots=jhOGJ6HTIz&sig=9a-sOutBEHDpSuFk1ZRm_fNT-Sw&hl=en&ei=ImxsSp-bKYW0swPMycSWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=%22Leonard%20Wolf%22%20happening%20house&f=false
http://outlawpoetry.com/
http://www.bostonbiker.com/
http://www.muzzlemagazine.com/submissions.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
History:
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1838, Jenny Lind, "the Swedish nightingale," made her Stockholm debut in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz (The Free Shooter) at the age of 18.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/nightingale/
1850, Senator Daniel Webster delivered his famous "Seventh of March" speech urging sectional compromise on the issue of slavery. Advising abolition-minded Northerners to forgo antislavery measures, he simultaneously cautioned Southerners that disunion inevitably would lead to war.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/seventh-march.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=yrYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=poem+about+Daniel+Webster&source=bl&ots=Txw2DZWnoY&sig=TJZLjA9Ix2ji16x-cCctubxoVOI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Upw3UYCzNKXP2QW62oHACg&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=poem%20about%20Daniel%20Webster&f=false
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ichabod/
(1923) The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/woods.htm
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section10.rhtml
1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson
And then ,on On March 9,
President Lyndon Johnson addressed the American people before a televised Joint Session of Congress, saying, "There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights…We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone…"
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar07.html
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/incident-edmund-pettus-bridge
Bonus Poem:
Letter to my Sister:
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue’s thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross;
The gods own the searing lightning,
The drowning waters, tormenting fears
And anger of red sins.
Oh, but worse still if you mince timidly
Dodge this way or that, or kneel or pray,
Be kind, or sweat agony drops
Or lay your quick body over your feeble young;
If you have beauty or none, if celibate
Or vowed-the gods are Juggernaut,
Passing over . . . over .
This you may do:
Lock your heart, then, quietly,
And lest they peer within,
Light no lamp when dark comes down
Raise no shade for sun;
Breathless must your breath come through
If you’d die and dare deny
The gods their god-like fun.
Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
http://reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/foremother-poetry-american-black-women-poets-of-the-harlem-renaissance-and-a-roman-sculptress/
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