March  26

Events:

March 26, Cambridge, MA: Daniel Hall, author of Under Sleep, will read with Robin Behn, author of The Yellow House, as part of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. Tickets are $3 each and may be purchased 45 minutes before the reading. At 8 p.m., Blacksmith House (617-547-6789; www.ccae.org).

This Just In:

April 1 Whitefield , N.H. At the Old White Church 4:30 pm From Cherish the Ladies Kathleen Boyle and Gráinne Murphy IN CONCERT $18 - doors open at 4   For reservations or information contact Greg and Teri Heppe 603-569-9859, hepx216.yahoo.com

April 19, Effingham – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Writers' Night - Features -Poets Sarah Acott and Liz Jones followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us,  539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com

Born:

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Thomas West Sherman 1813-March 161879  Brevet Major General (Union Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21425884
Herman Haupt 1817-12/14/ 1905 Brigadier General (Union volunteers)

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

Louise Otto-Peters,(1819-1895; German author and feminist

http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/ip/ottopetr.htm

George Smith, 1840 – Aug. 19, 1876), English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh,. During several expeditions to the site of ancient Nineveh, (1873Â74), Smith unearthed over 3,000 cuneiform tablets, including one which told the story of an ancient deluge, similar to Noah's Flood.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_flood_tablet.aspx

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gilgamesh.html

Edward Bellamy (1850-1897) Massachusetts-born author

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=327

A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, (1859 - 30 April 1936) English poet/ scholar

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/a-e-housman

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/housman-e

http://www.bartleby.com/people/HousmanA.html

Robert [Lee] Frost (1874-01/29/1963)New England poet and school teacher

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost

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

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/frost-robert

http://www.bartleby.com/people/Frost-Ro.html

Viktor Frankl (1905 – 09/02/1997) Austrian psychiatrist

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/frankl.html
Joseph Campbell (1906-10/30/1987)) American writer on mythology and comparative religion

http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=11

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

Robert Spencer Carr (1909 – April 28, 1994) American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

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

 [Thomas Lanier] Tennesee Williams (1911-02/25/1983) US writer

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/tennessee-williams/about-tennessee-williams/737/

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931783/

Paul Erdos  (1913 – 9/20/1996)  Hungarian mathematician

http://www.nndb.com/people/401/000032305/

General William Westmoreland  (1914 – 07/18/2005)  US military

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/jul/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
 Mort Abrahams 1916 -May 28, 2009 US producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009025/
Sterling Hayden 1916- May 23, 1986  US, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923) British novelist

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/elizabeth-jane-howard/

George Harry Stine Lee Correy (1928-Nov.2,1997) science and technology writer,&science fiction author.

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

Sandra Day O'Connor  (1930 – )  US Supreme Court Justice

http://www.oyez.org/justices/sandra_day_oconnor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/sandra-day-oconnor-mitt-romney-newt-gingrich_n_1249606.html

Gregory Corso (1930-01/17/2001)) US writer -beat poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gregory-corso

Leonard Simon Nimoy 1931- Boston MA, actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/

Because

Because
I have known despair
I value hope

Because
I have tasted frustration
I value fulfillment

Because
I have been lonely
I value love

http://www.retroist.com/the-poetry-of-leonard-nimoy/

Alan Wolf Arkin (1934) American actor, director, musician and singer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000273/

Erica Jong (1942) US Novelist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/16/erica-jong-molly-jong-fast

Diana Ross   (1944 – )   US singer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005384/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/diana-ross-p5308

Steven Tyler   (1948 – )   US singer (Aerosmith)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878911/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steven-tyler-p133400

Martin Short  (1950 – )  Canadian comic, actor (SNL)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001737/

James Iha  (1968 – )  US guitarist, singer (Smashing Pumpkins, Perfect Circle)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-iha-p89111
Keira Knightly   (1985 – )   English actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461136/

Passed:

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John Vanbrugh (01/24/1664 –1726) English architect, writer

http://www.nndb.com/people/199/000101893/

Ludwig van Beethoven (12/16/1770 –1827) German composer

http://www.lucare.com/immortal/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002727/
Walt Whitman (05/31/1819 –1892) US poet , journalist and essayist
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/walt-whitman

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

Cecil Rhodes   (07/05/1853 –1902)   English statesman
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/rhodes.htm

Sarah Bernhardt  (ROSINE BERNARD)  (10/22/1844 –1923)   French actor
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/bernhardt001.html
Carolyn Wells (06/18/1869 –1942) US writer

http://mikegrost.com/hanshews.htm#Wells

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1060

from The Rubáiyát of Bridge

Myself, when Young, did eagerly Frequent
Bridge Tournaments, and heard Great Argument
=About this Point and That. Yet, after all,
Came out no Better Player than I went.

For I remember stopping by the Way
To watch Four Celebrated Champions play.
=They Differed on the Discard, Make, and Lead.
Whatever One Said,—Said The Others, "Nay!"

Why, if a Soul can fling the Rules aside,
And let his Card=Sense be his Only Guide,
=Were't not a Shame, were't not a Shame for him
By Street and Elwell tamely to abide?

                                                                  April, 1909.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23792/23792-h/23792-h.htm

David Lloyd George  (01/17/1863 –1945)  British P.M. (36)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/george_david_lloyd.shtml
Raymond Chandler (07/23/1888 –/1959) US writer

http://home.comcast.net/~mossrobert/html/works/early.htm

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rchandle.htm
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 –1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=36502

http://www.musicals101.com/noel.htm
Lin Yutang (10/10/1895 –1976) Chinese writer \

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lin_yutang.html

http://archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A(texts)%20-contributor%3Agutenberg%20AND%20(subject%3A%22Yutang%2C%20Lin%2C%201895-1976%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Yutang%2C%20Lin%2C%201895-1976%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Lin%20Yutang%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Lin%20Yutang%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Lin%20Yutang%22)

Jean Stafford (07/01/1915 –1979) US writer PULITZER

http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/jean-stafford
Dr. Alex Comfort M.B., Ph.D., (02/10/1920-2000) British author ("The Joy of Sex") - sex manual 1972
http://books.google.com/books?id=ugkce0KcawUC

Daniel Moynihan  (03/16/1927 –2003)  US politician

http://www.nndb.com/people/132/000025057/

Jan Sterling   (04/03/1921 –2004)   US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012443/

James Callaghan  (03/27/1912 –2005)  British PM (47)

http://www.nndb.com/people/713/000031620/

Sites:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39190/39190-h/39190-h.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwgessay.html

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Stephen%2C+Leslie%2C+Sir%2C+1832-1904%22

http://landaya.com/

https://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm

History:

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1802 William Wordsworth composes “My Heart Leaps Up”

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety

http://www.poemhunter.com/william-wordsworth/poems/

John Galsworthy's the first edition of The Forsyte Saga; Volume I, The Man of Property, was published on this day in 1906

Bonus Poem:

A Tale

This youth too long has heard the break
Of waters in a land of change.
He goes to see what suns can make
From soil more indurate and strange.

He cuts what holds his days together
And shuts him in, as lock on lock:
The arrowed vane announcing weather,
The tripping racket of a clock;

Seeking, I think, a light that waits
Still as a lamp upon a shelf, --
A land with hills like rocky gates
Where no sea leaps upon itself.

But he will find that nothing dares
To be enduring, save where, south
Of hidden deserts, torn fire glares
On beauty with a rusted mouth, --

Where something dreadful and another
Look quietly upon each other.

                                                                 Louise Bogan

http://www.poemhunter.com/louise-bogan/poems/