April 25

EVENTS:

April 25 Farmington Goodwin Library Poet's Tea at 6:00 pm. Awards will be given out. There will be 4 guest poets and then, if there is time, open mike. http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/

April 26 Wolfeboro Poets in the Attic at the Country Bookseller from 7 to 9.

Info? : 539-4472 or poetsintheattic.gmail.com  .

BIRTHDAYS:

Lord Oliver Cromwell (1599– 09/03/1658)English Lord Protector

http://www.olivercromwell.org/
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, (1621– 16 October 1679) Irish/ British soldier, statesman, and dramatist

http://www.nndb.com/people/103/000102794/

John Keble, 1792- March 26, 1866  English clergyman and poet. Credited with having founded the Oxford Movement in 1833, Keble also authored the hymn, "Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear" (1820).

http://www.readbookonline.net/auPoems/Keble/297/

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-keble/biography/

James Dearing  1840-1865 Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10854

John Frank Stevens (1853 – 06/11/1943)US engineer

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/streamliners-stevens/

HowardRoger Garis (1873- 1962 ). US fiction writer He's the creator of the pink-nosed elderly rabbit named Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=808

http://www.oldnewark.com/memories/newspapers/bodiangaris.htm

Walter Ramal De La Mare (1873-1956), English poet, essayist, novelist, and accountant

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1108

The Song  Of Shadows

"Sweep thy faint strings, Musician,

With thy long lean hand;

Downward the starry tapers burn,

Sinks soft the waning sand;

The old hound whimpers couched in sleep,

The embers smoulder low;

Across the walls the shadows

Come, and go.

Sweep softly thy strings, Musician,

The minutes mount to hours;

Frost on the windless casement weaves

A labyrinth of flowers;

Ghosts linger in the darkening air,

Hearken at the open door;

Music hath called them, dreaming,

Home once more."

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/walter_de_la_mare/poems

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

Murray Fletcher Pratt  (1897–June 11,1956) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history

http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/pratt-battles/pratt-battles-00-h-dir/pratt-battles-00-h.html

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/fletcher-pratt/

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?532

William J. Brennan, Jr.( 1906 – 07/24/1997)US Supreme Court

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

Edward R. Murrow(1908 – 04/27/1965)US broadcast journalist newscaster (Person to Person)

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=murrowedwar

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edward_r_murrow.html

Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. 1914-March 6, 1948  American writer (Raintree County)

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

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050882/

Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 06/15/1996) US singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ella-fitzgerald-p6503

http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/
Jean Mogin 1921- 7 April 1986 Belgian French  poet, playwright and journalist

http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Mogin/e/B001K7O47M/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1335347704&sr=1-1

Paul Mazursky 1930 Brooklyn NY, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005196/

Jerry Leiber 1933-Aug.22,2011 US  songwriter (Leiber& Stoller) "Hound Dog," "Yakety Yak," and "Jailhouse Rock "Spanish Harlem,"

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jerry-leiber-p18865

Ted Kooser 1939- US. Poet; U.S. poet laureate from 2004 to 2006,

http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Kooser/e/B001JSDVXU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1335345657&sr=8-1

Al Pacino(1940 – )US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/

Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945-  Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bjrn-ulvaeus-p133527

Talia [Rose Coppola] Shire 1946 US actress (Rocky, Godfather)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001735/

James Fenton (1949) Eng Poet & Journalist

http://www.amazon.com/James-Fenton/e/B000APSP5C/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1335230401&sr=8-1

Padgett Powell (1952) Southern novelist

http://www.english.ufl.edu/faculty/ppowell/index.html

Renée Zellweger (04/25/1969 – )US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000250/

Quentin S. Crisp 1972- British writer and publisher of supernatural fiction

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?109824

PASSED:

Louise Labé, 1524-66 - French poet

http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/LouiseLabeIndex.html

Torquato Tasso 1595- Italian poet/playwright

http://elfinspell.com/LucchiTasso.html

Alessandro Tassoni (September 28, 1565 –1635) Italian poet and political writer

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14464a.htm
William Cowper (11/15/1731 –1800) English writer lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns) - "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/cowper-william

http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry/cowpindx.htm
Louis-Sébastien Mercier June 6,1740-1813 French poet (Le Déserteur)

http://books.google.com/books/about/Panorama_of_Paris.html?id=Dv1WaVU2_eoC

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Louis-S%C3%A9bastien+Mercier%22

Charles Ferguson Smith   April 24,1907-1862 US Union General-Major

http://www.nndb.com/people/473/000050323/

Thomas Aird (1876) Scot Poet

http://www.poemhunter.com/thomas-aird/poems/

http://books.google.com/books?id=P75MAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=poems+by+Thomas+Aird&source=bl&ots=zucCSf-eNO&sig=AaXL35gJURkmb9cjZdx-xTfU0bo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IVmXT9T7CanB6AHo6eynDg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=poems%20by%20Thomas%20Aird&f=false

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Anna Sewell (03/30/1820) -1878) English writer (Black Beauty)

http://www.online-literature.com/anna-sewell/

Ellen K S Key (12/11/1849 –1926) Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child)

http://books.google.com/books/about/Love_and_Marriage.html?id=20kdAAAAYAAJ

Carol Reed Dec.30,1906-1976 Eng. director (Agony& Ecstasy)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715346/
William R Burnett 1899-1982 US, writer (Asphalt Jungle)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/w-r-burnett/
Clifford D[onald] Simak Aug 3 ,1904 -1988 US sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?55

Ginger Rogers (07/16/1911 –1995) US actor, dancer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001677/
John Lorne Campbell (1906–1996) Scottish historian, farmer, environmentalist and folklore scholar.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-john-lorne-campbell-1345284.html

Wright Morris, Jan 6,1910-1998 American writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/wright-morris/

Thom Gunn, 1929- 2004 British poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thom-gunn

     Still Life

I shall not soon forget

The greyish-yellow skin

To which the face had set:

Lids tights: nothing of his,

No tremor from within,

Played on the surfaces.

He still found breath, and yet

It was an obscure knack.

I shall not soon forget

The angle of his head,

Arrested and reared back

On the crisp field of bed,

Back from what he could neither

Accept, as one opposed,

Nor, as a life-long breather,

Consentingly let go,

The tube his mouth enclosed

In an astonished O.

http://www.poemhunter.com/thom-gunn/poems/

Bobby "Boris" Pickett, February 11, 1938- 2007 American singer and songwriter

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681876/

Beatrice Arthur (05/13/1922 –2009) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0037735/

Alan Sillitoe (4 March 1928 –2010)  English writer THE LONELINESS OF LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER (1959),

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798105/

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

SITES:

http://www.accidentalcruiser.com/westcoast/sfbay/sites/goldengate/photopage.htm

http://www.progressiveliving.org/history/timeline/progressive_era/progressive_era_timeline.htm

http://www.freebirdhouseplans.net/

http://pinterest.com/source/biolite.myshopify.com/

http://totallygonzo.org/

http://verapavlova.us/

http://all-art.org/

History:

1856 Charles Dodgson met Alice Liddell on this day *

http://iantopf.hubpages.com/hub/Alice-Liddells-Adventures-in-Lewis-Carrolls-Wonderland

1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/p/cwneworleans.htm

1867 .Mark Twain’s first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, was published *

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/0/3200/3200.txt

1898  William S. Porter — the drug store clerk, cowboy, fugitive, bank teller, cartoonist and future "O. Henry" — began a five-year prison sentence for embezzlement*

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/porter.htm

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

*From TInLit

BONUS POEM:

talisman

it is written

the act of writing is

holy words are

sacred and your breath

brings out the

god in them

i write these words

quickly repeat them

softly to myself

this talisman for you

fold this prayer

around your neck fortify

your back with these

whispers

may you walk ever

loved and in love

know the sun

for warmth the moon

for direction

may these words always

remind you your breath

is sacred words

bring out the god

in you

bySuheir Hammad

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/suheir_hammad/poems