Nov 9

Events:

Exeter, Nov. 9:   Features Pat Parnell and the Currents., followed by open mike at the Water Street Bookstore, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com ).

Born:

November 9

Mark Akenside (1721-70  ) Eng Doctor /Augustan poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/3.html

Asa Mahan, 1800-89  American educator and Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835_1850,     http://truthinheart.com/Asa_Mahan.html

Ivan Turgenev  (1818 – 09/03/1883)  Russian writer

http://www.turgenev.org.ru/en/biography/index.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=922

Émile Gaboriau 1832-73 French 19th century mystery writer, novelist, and journalist

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gaboria.htm

Samuel Hill. 1867-1936 -   Christian business traveler In 1899 .Hill, John Nicholson and W.J. Knights co_founded the Gideons.

http://www.gideons.org/AboutUs/OurHistory.aspx

Erich Auerbach 1892-1957 German philologist, educator, critic, and literary historian

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/auerb.htm

Spiro T. Agnew (1918 – 09/17/1996) US Vice President
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_22_00043.htm

James Schuyler (1923-91  ) US Poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-schuyler

Salute

Past is past, and if one
remembers what one meant
to do and never did, is
not to have thought to do
enough? Like that gather-
ing of one each I
planned, to gather one
of each kind of clover,
daisy, paintbrush that
grew in that field
the cabin stood in and
study them one afternoon
before they wilted. Past
is past. I salute
that various field.

                  James Schuyler

http://www.poemsabout.org/salute-james-schuyler/

Anne Sexton  (1928 – 10/04/1974)  US writer

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-sexton

Imre Kertész (1929-)  Hungarian novelist, essayist, and translator, - Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerte.htm
Dr. Carl Sagan  (1934 – 12/20/1996)  US scientist, writer
http://planetary.org/about/founders/carl_sagan.html

Passed:

November 9

Guillaume Apollinaire  (08/26/1880 –1918)  French writer

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/737

Saffrons

The ground is poisonous but pretty in autumn
Slowly the cattle
Poison themselves
The saffrons are colored circular and lilac
Like your eyes and flourishing
Purplish like rings and like the autumn
And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly

Dressed like hiccups playing harmonicas
Noisily children out of school
Pluck the saffrons that are like mothers
Daughters of daughters the colors of your eyelids
Flutter and are flowers in a crazy wind

The cowboy sings very softly
The slow and lowing herd forever
Abandons the meadow poisoned by flowers
---
                                    1913. Alcools. (tr. Donald Revell

http://www.poetrypreviews.com/poets/poet-apollinaire.html

Dylan Thomas  (10/27/1914 –1953)  Welsh writer

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/literature/authors/thomasdylan(1914-1953)/thomas.html

Dorothy Canfield Fisher  (02/17/1879 –1958)  US writer

http://www.vermonttoday.com/century/mostinflu/dcfisher.html

Sites:

http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/

http://www.nhnature.org/

http://www.tfas.org/page.aspx?pid=1759

http://www.joefrazier.com/

http://www.pmc.edu/

http://www.everseradio.com/ernest-hilberts-introduction-to-the-maude-translation-of-leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace-issued-as-part-of-the-canterbury-classics-series/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EverseRadio+%28E-Verse+Radio%29

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArobeson.htm

History:

1938 "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm

1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day

http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html

1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/UFOnov1965poweroutage.html

Bonus Poem:

Margaret Widdemer

http://www.bartleby.com/271/154.html