APRIL 8

Events:

April 11, Henniker. at 7 p.m. in the New England Room of the Danforth Library, New England College Book Club for Poets discussion will feature the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.

April 11, Exeter, Poetry . Water Street  Featuring Joann Ducanson & Lee Ann Dalton. 6:30 p.m. followed by Open mic ; 125 Water Street  Exeter, New Hampshire  778-9731   John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com)

April12, Strafford Marie Harris Hill Library at 6:30 Open Mic snacks director.metrocast.net

April 12, Manchester– 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)

April 13, Chichester  "Poetry Springs Up" at the Chichester Town Library . 7:00-9:00, with featured readers Ed Patch and Pat Savage, an open mic, music and refreshments. This event is free and open to all poetry lovers. The address is 161 Main Street, Chichester, NH 03058. Contact Barbara at bespappas.gmail or call the Chichester Library at (603) 798-5613for more information.

April 13,South Berwick,Me.7-9pm“What’s In The Cards: Poetry of the Near Miss” featuring poets Mekeel McBride, Thomas Moore,,& Shelley Girdner in an evening of poetry and conversation.Also reading-student poetsAbigail Fitzpatrick and Claire Breger-Belsky Refreshments and the poets books will be available to buy ..Music by Berwick Academy student Brooks Jalbert, playing jazz piano. Jackson Library ,31 Academy Street{207}384-2164 or www.berwickacademy.org .

April 13 Portsmouth  6-8 pm [National Poetry Month] Discover Portsmouth Center
AMBUSHED BY POETRY: Brick Project Kickoff Doors open at 6. The presentation will begin at 6:30. This is a kick-off party preview of the Brick Project, a project to place three cycles of poetry in public spaces around Downtown Portsmouth throughout the summer. Light refreshments will be served.. Members of the audience will be invited to read, extemporare, some of the classic poems to be included in the project. http://www.pplp.org/

Augusta Me. April 13 and 14, 2012    Terry Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival

Jewett Hall Auditorium   Emcee: Duff Plunkett  Welcome: Allyson Hughes Handley, President, UMA

Student Poetry Contest Winners: Presented by Jan Bunford  Plunkett Family: Comments on the Tenth Festival

Selections from "White Rose" by the Maine Gay Men's Chorus  Featured Performance: PoeTree Music and Poetry

Reception in Charles Danforth Art Gallery Music by UMA's En Route Standards Ensemble

Richard Randall Student Center.  Emcee: Ellen Taylor, Associate Professor of English

Senior College Poets:  Guest Poets:  Panel discussion on Poetry and Revolution

Panelists TBA. Facilitator: Duff Plunkett  Marcia Gallagher and the UMA vocal quartet, Envox

Guest Poet:   Revolutionary Readings: A Sampler of Poetry

Open Mic: One poem of two minutes or less. (Sign-up sheet available on Saturday).

Map at http://www.uma.maine.edu/assets/images/campusmaps/UMA_Map_Color.jpg

contact Ellen M. Taylor       http://www.uma.maine.edu/plunkett2011.html

April 15, Dublin, Grace Mattern reading from her new book, The Truth About Death, Del Rossi's in the Writes of Spring series, , 2:30 http://gracemattern.com/author/ericgrace/

Born:

April 8

Gautama Buddha (0563 –? /0483) Indian spiritual leader

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/buddha2.htm

Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) Eng Anglican Chaplain/poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/fletcher-phineas

David Rittenhouse, (1732-June 26, 1796.). American astronomer, mathematician, and surveyor

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/science/astronomy/biography/rittenhouse.htm

Alfred Jarry [1873-Nov.1,1907] French writer

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

http://ndbooks.com/author/alfred-jarry

Mary Pickford Gladys Louise Smith(1893-05/29/1979)  US actress (Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681933/

Isidore Hochberg (Edgar) Yip Harburg, (1896 – 03/05/1981) American lyricist- Oscar, shared with Harold Arlen, for Best Music, Original Song for "The Wizard of Oz", (1939).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361971/

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C14

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ey-yip-harburg-p84165/biography

                                                                 From “Night at the Opera”as song by Groucho[but I cut out the howling-hey ! buy the flick!]

http://www.lyrics.com/lydia-the-tattooed-lady-lyrics-ey-yip-harburg.html

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra 1898 –1971 China-born English writer
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/cecil-bowra

Ilka Chase  (1905 – 02/15/1978)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153772/
E.M. [ Émile Michel] Cioran, 1911-June 20,1995, Romanian /Fr. philosopher, aphorist, and essayist

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

Sonja Henie  (1912 – 10/12/1969)  Norwegian skater, actress

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377012/

Betty Elizabeth Bloomer Ford  (1918 – 07/08/2011)  US First Lady (39)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/bettyford

Seymour Hersh, (1937) American journalist Pulitzer Prize-1970

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2009/11/interview-obama-afghanistan

Barbara Kingsolver, (1955 –) U.S. novelist, The Bean Trees (1988)

http://www.kingsolver.com/books/

Julian Lennon  (1963 – )  English singer, songwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502049/

Patricia Arquette  (1968 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000099/

Passed:

April 8

Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt (06/22/1767 – 1835) German philosopher

http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=589
Susanna Strickland Moodie ((12/06/1803 –1885) English-Canadian novelist & poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/moodie-susanna

Eric Axel Karlfeldt, July 20,1864-1931 Swedish poet, Nobel Prize for Literature posthumously in 1931

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

http://www.poemhunter.com/erik-axel-karlfeldt/

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1931/

George Jean Nathan  (02/14/1882 –1958)  US writer

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/awards/nathan/bio.html
Pablo Picasso (10/25/1881 –1973) Spanish artist

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pica/hd_pica.htm

General Omar Bradley (02/12/1893 –1981) US military

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/omarnels.htm

J. Fred Coots, May 2,1897- 1985 American songwriter

                                          For All We Know

For all we know
We may never meet again
Before we go
Make this moment live again
We won't say goodbye
Until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it

For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples, like the ripples in the stream
So baby, love me, love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Oh, but tomorrow
But tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
Yes, tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know

        -Coots, Lewis

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/For-All-We-Know-lyrics-Nina-Simone/A52FE1C84826A19E482569A10020951A

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/j-fred-coots-p66413
Marian Anderson (02/27/1897 –1993) US singer

http://www.mariananderson.org/legacy/index.html

Laura Nyro (10/18/1947 –1997) US singer, songwriter

http://rockhall.com/inductees/nominees/laura-nyro/

Sites:

http://www.lanes.org/

http://www.prairieschooner.unl.edu/

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

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html?java=no

http://adalimon.blogspot.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=XdWHPDGHkNcC&dq=%22john+lehmann%22+%22new+writing%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=7Yb_8GnoTG&sig=UOW_zfsg8oNLOZ8K9UPFiHUdv3k#v=onepage&q=%22john%20lehmann%22%20%22new%20writing%22&f=false

http://jazzmouth.org/

History:

April 8

Easter Sunday- Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא‎ Pasḥa; from Hebrew: פֶּסַח‎ Pesaḥ)^[1] is a Christian feast and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.^{[2][3] wikipedia}

1935  Congress approved the formation of the Works Progress Administration The WPA was created by President Franklin Roosevelt to relieve the economic hardship of the Great Depression. The program employed more than 8.5 million people on 1.4 million public projects before it was disbanded in 1943. Many of the WPA's projects involved manual labor, but it also included literary and arts programs like the Federal Writers' Project.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpafwp.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html

1994 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2001/04/03/strawberry_chronology_ap/

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/players/3216/

Bonus Poem:

Measure

We were wide; the way was narrow;
we could feel trees ripening, cherries or no,
and we found the pleasures of dreamlife
unrecognizable as fruitful
except inside ourselves. Things increased
by layering: trees ripened, it got dark;
it was too difficult to wish for less,
to clear ourselves away in readiness for a future happiness
where we might be reformed as something lit and slight and clear.
Some days we felt each seed complicit with us, privately,
and gemstones were, and rain. So it was strange
when we saw tall trees make water-movements in the air,
or we saw a peony withhold one blade of fire,
a pearl's interstice with dirt, rain's tongue.
We felt what entered others cross to pass into our sleep
whether we were known or not,
to show how slight, how variable any body was.

KATHLEEN PEIRCE

http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n2/index.htm