March 8

Events:

March 8 Rochester – Portable Pantry Writer's Night Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the feature starts at 6:15 Features Katherine Rhoda –Unique musician followed by open mike. (Pat O’Brien, 866-6034

March 8 Manchester Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com) Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com, facebook.com/slamfreeordie)

Born:

March 8

William Roscoe (1753- June 30, 1831) Eng Poet , attorney ,historian, and M.P.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/282.html

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki ( 1761 – December 1815) Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/03/jan-potocki-and-the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa

Simon Cameron  (1799 – 06/26/1889)  US Senator (PA), financier & Secretary of War (Union)
http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/pa_sc.htm
Matthew Calbraith Butler 1836 - Major General (Confederate Army)

http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=270

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  (1841 – 03/06/1935)  US Supreme Court Justice

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/oliver/oliverxx.htm

João de Deus, (1830 - 1896) Portuguese poet

http://casamuseujoaodedeus-joao.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetic-soul-of-portuguese.html

Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 07/06/1932) Scottish essayist and children's story writer

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

http://www.online-literature.com/grahame/

Mr. Toad

The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!

The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr Toad!

The animals sat in the Ark and cried,
Their tears in torrents flowed.
Who was it said, 'There's land ahead'?
Encouraging Mr Toad!

The army all saluted
As they marched along the road.
Was it the King? Or Kitchener?
No. It was Mr Toad.

The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting
Sat at the window and sewed.
She cried, 'Look! Who's that HANDSOME man?'
They answered, 'Mr Toad.'

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2001/06/mr-toad-kenneth-grahame.html

Eric Robert Linklater (1899- November 7 .1974) Scottish novelist, poet and history writer

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

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13496

Elmer Keith, (1899 - 1984) Firearms enthusiast and Author

http://www.elmerkeithshoot.org/

http://www.sixguns.com/bunkhouse/elmer_keith.htm

Eu Gene Fowler (1890 – 07/02/1960) US journalist, novelist, and biographer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1542

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288706/

Mississippi John Hurt 1892-Nov2,1966  African-American blues singer.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mississippi-john-hurt-p379

Marcus B. Christian 1900-76 African-American poet, and educator

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/marcus-b-christian-bayou-poet-and-teacher

http://www.aaregistry.org/poetry/view/craftsman-marcus-b-christian

Howard Aiken  (1900 – 03/14/1973)  US mathematician, engineer

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/aiken_howard.html

William York Tindall, (1903-81) US literary critic and James Joyce scholar

http://ronosaurusrex.com/metablog/2012/02/03/said-this-all-before-history-repeats-itself-james-joyces-finnegans-wake/

Rolf Jacobsen (1907— February 20 ,1994) Norway modernist writer [poet,novelist]

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

Harold Cruse 1916-March 25,2005 African-American author and intellectual

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/author-thought-harold-cruse

John Angus McPhee (1931) American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer -creative nonfiction.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/johnmcphee

Richard Farina, 1937 –April 30,1966  American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-faria-p35524
Mickey Dolenz  (1945 – )  US singer, drummer, actor (Monkees)
http://www.mickydolenz.com/

Kathy Ireland  (1963 – )  US supermodel
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001387/

Freddie Prinze, Jr.    1976 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005327/

Passed:

March 8

Hector Berlioz (12/11/1803 –1869) French composer

http://www.hberlioz.com/

Millard Fillmore  (01/07/1800 –1874)  US President (13)

http://www.potus.com/mfillmore.html

Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (30 September 1816 - 1887) French novelist and dramatist.

http://www.blackcoatpress.com/feval.htm

Henry Ward Beecher (06/24/1813 –1887) US minister ,writer ,editor

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

Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (June 27, 1883-1929) Eng Anglican Priest, WWI poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/413.html

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

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/s/t/u/studdert-kennedy_ga.htm

Prayer Before an Attack

IT ain't as I 'opes 'E'll keep me safe

While the other blokes goes down,

It ain't as I wants to leave this world

And wear an 'ero's crown.

It ain't for that as I says my prayers

When I goes to the attack,

But I pray that whatever comes my way

I may never turn me back.

I leaves the matter o' life and death

To the Father who knows what's best,

And I pray that I still may play the man

Whether I turns east or west.

I'd sooner that it were east, ye know,

To Blighty and my gal Sue.

I'd sooner be there, wi' the gold in 'er 'air,

And the skies be'ind all blue.

But still I pray I may do my bit,

And then, if I must turn west,

I'll be unashamed when my name is named,

And I'll find a soldier's rest.

http://www.archive.org/stream/roughrhymesofpad00studrich/roughrhymesofpad00studrich_djvu.txt

William Howard Taft  (09/15/1857 –1930)  US President (27)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/whtaft.html

Sherwood Anderson (09/13/1876 –1941) US writer

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

http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/

Sir Thomas Beecham  (04/29/1897 –1961)  British composer, conductor

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Beecham-Thomas.htm

Florence Margaret Stevie Smith (1902-71) Eng poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/stevie-smith

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stevie_smith

George Stevens, December 18, 1904 -1975 US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828419/

John Anthony Bellairs (January 17, 1938 –1991) American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many juvinile gothic mystery novels

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1495

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212361/

Wells Root, March 21, 1900 -1993 US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740537/

Alexander Salkind, (June 2, 1921 –1997) second of three generations of successful international film producers (Superman),

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758499/

Joe DiMaggio  (11/25/1914 –1999)  US baseball player
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dimagjo01.shtml

http://www.biography.com/people/joe-dimaggio-9274899

Karen Morley  (12/12/1909 –2003)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605904/

Alice Thomas Ellis (09/09/1932 –2005) Welsh writer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/mar/10/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

Sites:

http://www.facebook.com/booksandbeyond

http://books.google.com/books?id=bArNy3OXzbAC&pg=PA59&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=twopage&q&f=false

http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/index.html

http://calautomuseum.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39028/39028-h/39028-h.htm

http://www.winningwriters.com/index.php

http://www.artsedgewolfeboro.org/

History:

March 8

Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River, published this day in 1935

http://themoderatevoice.com/18304/guest-book-review-of-time-and-the-river-by-thomas-wolfe/

W. H. Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" was published on this day in 1939 in The New Republic.

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nap/In_Memory_of_W_Yeats_Auden.htm

The Volkswagon minibus went into production on this day in 1950,

http://www.google.com/search?q=1950+VW+minibus&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4RNUR_enUS422US456&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kpRYT8fpH6fr0gG-s7HiDw&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=681

Bill Graham’s Fillmore East opened on this day in 1968.

http://subrealities.waiting-forthe-sun.net/Pages/BeIn/HaightAshbury/Fillmore/fillmore_east_history.html

International Women's Day, so designated by the United Nations in 1977, now honored in most countries, and a national holiday in some

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/international-womens-day

Bonus Poem:

                                                                                             Muriel Stuart

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

http://www.bartleby.com/300/2770.html