April 4

Events:

April 4, Portsmouth– 7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth Poetry Hoot -Mike Albert Book release for The Bird Catcher & Poet Laureate’s Choice  followed by open mike (7724345,http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm ). 738 Islington St.,

Reminder:

April 20 Canterbury, NH WIND IN THE TIMOTHY POETRY FESTIVAL 7:00 pm. Elkins Library

Featuring; Marie Harris, W.E. Butts, Julia Shipley, & Kate Caley .

There will be an opportunity for a few poets to read afterwards, one poem, on the shortish side sans introduction…let the poem speak for itself.  www.windinthetimothypress.com  ;  http://elkinspubliclibrary.org/

Born:

April 4

James Freeman Clarke  (1810 – 06/08/1888)  US theologian

http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Clarke.html?index=0
John Blair Smith Todd 1814 –Jan.5,1872 Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10390

http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Biographies/BiosJohnBlairSmithTodd.htm

Margaret Oliphant (1828 – 06/25/1897) Scottish writer biographer (Beleaguered City)

http://books.google.com/books/about/A_beleaguered_city.html?id=AfMBAAAAQAAJ

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/oliphant.html

Hans Richter   (1843 – 12/05/1916)    Hungarian conductor  

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725257/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hans-richter-q69091

Comte de Lautréamont - Isidore Ducasse (1846-Nov.24,1870) French writer/poet

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=7071

Rémy de Gourmont 1858, - Sept 27, 1915, French author- playwright, and philosopher

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

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/remy-de-gourmont-getting-drunk-at-the-dirty-cask-of-militarism/

Edith Södergran 1892-June 24,1923 Swedish /Finland Pioneer of poetry Complete Poems (1984)

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

http://runeberg.org/authors/sodrgran.html

My Artificial Flowers

My artificial flowers
I send them to you.
My small bronze lions
I set up at your door.
I myself sit down on the steps --
a lost oriental pearl
in the big city’s noisy sea.

http://www.poemhunter.com/edith-sodergran/poems/

Robert Emmett Sherwood (1896 – 11/14/1955)   U.S. playwright and historian who was a member of the Algonquin round table and Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter in the 1940s

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792845/

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-liberal-in-american-drama-robert-emmet-sherwood-MDQWxRpKfm/1

Marguerite Duras (1914-Nov.3,1996), French novelist,scenarist, playwright, and film director, (The Sea Wall)

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

http://www.amazon.com/Marguerite-Duras/e/B000AQ3BIC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1333470797&sr=8-1

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0243921/

Muddy Waters (1915 – 04/30/1983) US blues singer, guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)

http://www.muddywaters.com/bio.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914149/bio

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/muddy-waters-p108085

Elmer Bernstein (1922 – 08/18/2004) US composer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/elmer-bernstein-p3074

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000930/

Emmett Williams, (1925– 14 February 2007) American poet and visual artist.

http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/2007/02/post_11.html

http://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/10163999414/emmett-williams-like-attracts-like

Maya Angelou Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 –) US novelist poet, dramatist, and performer

http://mayaangelou.com/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87

http://www.poemhunter.com/maya-angelou/

Anthony Perkins (1932 – 09/12/1992) US actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000578/

Andrei Tarkovsky Tarkovski 1932-Dec.29, 1986 Russian film and theater director, screenwriter-a poetic visionary(Solaris, Stalker)

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

A. Bartlett Giamatti  (1938 – 09/01/1989)  US educator, baseball commissioner

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quogiam.shtml

Robert Downey Jr  1965 - New York NY, comedian/actor (Larry Paul-Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, Less than Zero, Back to School)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/
Heath Ledger  (1979 – 01/22/2008)  Australian actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/

Passed:

April 4

Alfonso X the Wise   (11/23/1221 –1284)   Spanish royalty

http://www.bartleby.com/100/725.html

http://www.mikecrowson.co.uk/Alfonso.html

Oliver Goldsmith   (11/10/1728 –1774)   Irish writer poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/goldsmith-oliver

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=211

William Henry Harrison  (02/09/1773 –1841)   US President (9) 1st US President to die in office

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

Vladimir Majakovski, Mayakovsky (1893-April 14, 1930) Russian poet of Russian Revolution

Past One O’Clock ...

Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.
Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind.
Now you and I are quits. Why bother then
To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts.
Behold what quiet settles on the world.
Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation.

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

http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/index.htm

John Peale Bishop, (May 21, 1892 –1944) American poet and man of letters. (Undertaker's Garland)

http://jeffersonhistoricalwv.org/thepeople.html#jpb

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/bishop_john.html

http://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/bishopjp/SpeakingofPoetry.html

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (02/04/1876 –1959) US writer/poet

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/writers20th/p/sarah_cleghorn.htm

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/1999/09/golf-links-sarah-norcliffe-cleghorn.html

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.  (01/15/1929 –1968)  US religious leader, civil rights activist
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

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

Sites:

http://www.bioone.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39198/39198-h/39198-h.htm

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/Crisis/Crisis-TOC.html

http://inkygirl.com/

http://www.terrysdiary.com/

http://www.pw.org/

http://www.everseradio.com/

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=550093d5de1c7f789d4c4c836&id=4961749ebd&e=FmqQNKIzzs

History:

April 4

1860.George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss was published

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6688/6688-h/6688-h.htm

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/woolf/VW-Eliot.html

1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP

http://fountainheadauto.blogspot.com/2011/09/baseball-hugh-chalmers-and-mvp-award.html

1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714^th

http://www.755homeruns.com/timeline.shtml

BONUS POEM:

Fantasy
I sailed in my dreams to the Land of Night Where you were the dusk-eyed queen, And there in the pallor of moon-veiled light The loveliest things were seen ...   A slim-necked peacock sauntered there In a garden of lavender hues, And you were strange with your purple hair As you sat in your amethyst chair With your feet in your hyacinth shoes.   Oh, the moon gave a bluish light Through the trees in the land of dreams and night. I stood behind a bush of yellow-green And whistled a song to the dark-haired queen ...

                                                   by Gwendolyn Bennett

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bennett/bennett.htm