March 28

Events:

March 29, Concord ,NH  7PM  Join us at Gibson’s Books for an evening of poetry as Dartmouth College professor Cynthia Huntington celebrates her newest volume of verse, Heavenly Bodies.

www.gibsonsbookstore.com  ; http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/cynthia

http://anti-poetry.com/anti/huntingtoncy/  ;  http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/huntington/huntington_about.php   ;

http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=5721&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Born:

March 28

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 – 10/04/1582) Spanish nun, mystic, writer

http://www.catholic-saints.info/patron-saints/saint-theresa.htm

Wade Hampton 111 1818 - April 11, 1902 Charleston SC, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army)

http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=923/Lieutenant

William Carney 1842. March 20, 1908.  Black military officer.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/william-carney-military-pioneer

Maxim Gorki Alexei Maximovich Peshkov,  (1868- 06/18/1936) Russian dramatist and novelist

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

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Maxim_Gorky

Gilbert E. Brooke (1873-1936 ) Eng Physician poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/brooke-gilbert-e

Paul Whiteman  (1890 – 12/29/1967)  US bandleader

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-whiteman-p7811

Nelson Algren [Abraham] (1901 – 05/09/1981) US writer    (The Man with the Golden Arm)

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

A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, 1912 - 6 June 1984 UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?72

http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chandler_a_bertram

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) Czech novelist and short story writer

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

Kurt Aland, 1915- April 13,1984  German New Testament textual scholar. He co-edited the two most definitive modern critical editions of the Greek Scriptures: the United Bible Society's "Greek New Testament" and Eberhard Nestle's "Novum Testamentum Graece."

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kurt-Aland/103752069663564

Amelia Rosselli, 1930 –96 European poet

http://www.club.it/autori/grandi/amelia.rosselli/poesie.html

http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/feeling-sentimental-or-a-little-look-at-the-poems-of-amelia-rosselli

from War Variations

And the dawning will be
that string of pearls you wear always untied on your pearly
thinning neck, o! the
muffled bones that
press in the excited dazed laughter. And you
will wear bandages on those tendons
snapped by the fury of loving
joyfully.

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_1_2003/current/translation/rosselli.htm

Jane Rule 1931 – 11/27/2007) Canadian writer

http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/jane-vance-rule

Michael Parkinson (1935 – ) English writer, broadcaster

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662858/

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa 1936-, Peruvian novelist and politician

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/vargas.htm
Bill Gaither, 1936 contemporary Gospel songwriter and vocal artist. Together with his wife Gloria, he wrote some of the most popular Christian songs of the 1960s-1970s, including "Because He Lives," "The King is Coming," "The Longer I Serve Him" and "Something Beautiful."

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p2283

Russell Banks 1940, American writer of fiction and poetry.

http://www.hackwriters.com/Russellbanks.htm

Reba McEntire  (1954 – )  US country singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/reba-mcentire-p1724

Iris Chang, (1968 - 2004) American author / journalist

http://www.amazon.com/Iris-Chang/e/B000AR7W7W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1332931265&sr=8-3

Lady Gaga   (1986 – )   US singer

"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lady-gaga-p1055684

Passed:

March 28

Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 –1928) English poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charlotte-mew

Katharine Lee Bates, August 12, 1859-, 1929,  , modern American Lyrical Poet /anthemist -The English Religious Drama, in 1893, and edited many classics of English literature. One of her anthems, America the Beautiful, gave her a greater standing with the public. She published seven volumes of poetry, much of which was unabashedly patriotic: The College Beautiful (1887), Sunshine and Other Verses for Children (1890), America the Beautiful, The Retinue (1918), Yellow Clover (1922), The Pilgrim Ship, and America the Dream (1930).

Katharine Lee Bates (Aug 12 1859-1929)

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Bates%2c%20Katharine%20Lee%2c%201859%2d1929

Virginia Woolf (01/25/1882 –1941) English writer

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

Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, 30 October 1910- 1942 Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo)

http://mhernandez.narod.ru/sobrestesitio.htm
Stephen  (Butler)  Leacock (December 30, 1869-1944) . Can Poet / playwright/ writer teacher,humorist. Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, verse, on the same subject, Hellements of Hickonomics, in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.miguelhernandezvirtual.com/new/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D52%26Itemid%3D74&ei=5WOQTfnmGbS00QGOnqFt&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DMiguel%2BHernadez%2BGilabert,%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422%26prmd%3Divnso

http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/

http://www.poems.md/authors/stephen-leacock.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1221

Francis Brett Young (29 June 1884 –1954) English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer.

Song

Why have you stolen my delight

In all the golden shows of Spring

When every cherry-tree is white

And in the limes the thrushes sing,

O fickler than the April day,

O brighter than the golden broom,

O blither than the thrushes' lay,

O whiter than the cherry-bloom,

O sweeter than all things that blow . . .

Why have you only left for me

The broom, the cherry's crown of snow,

And thrushes in the linden-tree?

http://bob-blair.org/gp4_3.htm

http://www.fbysociety.co.uk/

Christopher Morley  (05/05/1890 –1957)  US writer
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5153

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

W. C. Handy  (11/16/1873 –1958)  US composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wc-handy-p10723

Dwight David Eisenhower  (10/14/1890 –1969)  US President (34) (

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightdeisenhower

Emmett Kelly  (12/09/1898 –1979)  US performer
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=568

Jesse Owens  (09/12/1913 –1980)  US runner
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/BH/jo/jo.htm

Eugene Ionesco, (11/26/1912 –1994)  Roumanian playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano)

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

Sir Peter Ustinov  (04/16/1921 –2004)  English actor/writer

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=8131

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001811/

Sites:

http://www.mariposamuseum.org/

http://athenscentre.gr/?p=250

http://cwp.as.nyu.edu/object/writersinnewyork?utm_source=poetrydaily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cwp2012

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/

www.jewishnh.org

www.thedancehallkittery.org

http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/derek-bok-kay-ryan-phi-beta-kappa-2012?utm_source=Harvard+Magazine+e-mail&utm_campaign=531c2591ee-weekly_3_23_2012&utm_medium=email

http://www.johnmichaelalbert.com/

History:

March 28

1970, James Dickey's Deliverance was published.

http://www.enotes.com/deliverance

Bonus Poem:

                Hopeless

However you look at it I can't
Deny myself the torture
And run the risk that maybe
This is the time it won't hurt.
With the door closed or open I
Can still hear the laughter,
Catch the voice
I'd give anything to hear
In my ear--
Whetstones, whether to cut
Rope or flesh the knife and I
Cannot decide.
And I close my eyes like a melodramatist
Hoping someone pulls the curtain
And bang my head against the wall.
It will not go away.
And he will not leave unless
I want him to stay.

Copyright © 1996 by Katherine Foreman.

http://www.hyperborea.org/alenxa/free.html#ponder