May 7 

Events:

May 7, Cambridge, MA: Stanley Plumly, author of Orphan Hours, will read with Jane Shore, author of That Said, 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).

ThisJustIn:

June 1st North Berwick Maine  630 to 9 pm  Noble High School - 388 Somersworth Road North Berwick Maine (not far from Somersworth NH)   Reading and Book signing of Blood Red Dawn by teacher/poet Jon Shutt  Copies will be available for purchase, $12.00 All author royalties to be donated to the USO (United Services Organization)  Doors open at 630 for book purchases and signings    Timeline:. 7:00 6 Noble High finalists for the BRD poetry contest will read their poems to be judged by 3 local veterans

. 7:30 Jon Shutt will read selected poems from Blood Red Dawn

. 8:15 The winners of the poetry contest will be announced!

Afterwards Jon will be available to sell and sign more books. jon.shutt.yahoo.com 

More later,skip

Born:

May 7

David Hume (1711 – 08/25/1776) Scottish philosopher

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hume.htm

Olympe de Gouges, (1748 - 1793) playwright and feminist revolutionary

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/293/

Joseph Joubert (1754 – 05/04/1824) French writer

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08526a.htm

Robert Browning (1812-12/12,1889), BritishVictorian poet and playwright

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

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/

from Pippa Passes

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw48.html

Varina Howell Davis 1826 -10/16/1905 1st lady (Confederacy)

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Davis_Varina_1826-1906

Francis Engle Patterson 1827 -11/22/1862 Brigadier General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22725

Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839 - American clergyman and a prolific writer of Gospel songs- "What a Wonderful Savior," "I Must Tell Jesus," "Are You Washed in the Blood?" "Glory to His Name" and "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms."        http://www.hymnary.org/person/Hoffman_EA

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 11/06/1893) Russian composer of symphonies, operas, and ballets

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006318/

R.abindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer, Nobel Prize for literature in 1913

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

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/tr/tr01.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6519/pg6519.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/tagore-bio.html

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Rejment Reymont 1867-Dec 5,1925 Polish writer and novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924;

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

Ilmari Kianto 1874-April 27,1970 Finnish writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ikianto.htm

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) US poet, playwright, lawyer, farmer, Librarian of Congress from 1939-1944, and winner of three Pulitzer prizes

http://books.google.com/books?id=EQogr9JUVD0C&pg=RA3-PA236#v=onepage&q&f=false p236-7

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/macleish.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Archibald-MacLeish/e/B001ILM83W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336378974&sr=8-1

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

Gary Frank James Cooper (1901 – 05/13/1961) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000011/

María Eva Duarte de Perón (1919 – 26 July 1952) First Lady of Argentina 1946 -1952.

http://www.evitaperon.org/

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1927-, Anglo-Indian -German- U.S. novelist, short story writer and screenwriter

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

Gene Wolfe (1931-) US fantasy Novelist

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?171

Jenny Joseph, 1932-, Eng “Red-Hat” Poet

http://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Joseph/e/B001HQ0E7K/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336379023&sr=8-1

Angela Olive Stalker Carter (1940 – 02/16/1992) English short story writer, novelist, journalist, dramatist and critic.

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

http://www.angelacartersite.co.uk/

Peter Carey 1943- Australian short story writer and novelist

http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Carey/e/B000APSHKU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1336379109&sr=8-1

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

Bill Kreutzmann (1946 – ) US drummer (Grateful Dead)

http://www.dead.net/band/bill-kreutzmann

Passed:

May 7

Socrates  (06/04/0470 –/0399 BC)  Greek philosopher and scholar

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm

Caspar David Friedrich (Sept 5, 1774 –1840) German Romantic landscape painter

http://www.artble.com/artists/caspar_david_friedrich

Henry Peter Brougham Brougham And Vaux(19th of Sept 1778-1868) lord chancellor of England,

http://chestofbooks.com/reference/Encyclopedia-Britannica-2/Henry-Peter-Brougham-Brougham-And-Vaux.html

Amiel Weeks Whipple (  10/21/1817 -1863) US Union general-major
http://genweb.whipple.org/d0484/I14649.html
Alfred G Vanderbilt - 1915 US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr  -1915 US Lusitania officer, dies
Charles Frohman  - 1915 dies aboard Lusitania

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm

Lusitanian War-Song

The song of war shall echo thro' our mountains,
Till not one hateful link remains
Of slavery's lingering chains;
Till not one tyrant tread our plains,
Nor traitor lip pollute our fountains.
No! never till that glorious day
Shall Lusitania's sons be gay,
Or hear, oh Peace, thy welcome lay
Resounding thro' her sunny mountains.

The song of war shall echo thro' our mountains,
Till Victory's self shall, smiling, say,
"Your cloud of foes hath past away,
"And Freedom comes with new-born ray
"To gild your vines and light your fountains."
Oh, never till that glorious day
Shall Lusitania's sons be gay,
Or hear, sweet Peace, thy welcome lay
Resounding thro' her sunny mountains.

                                        Thomas Moore  

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/32012/

Elbert Hubbard (06/19/1856 –1915) US writer

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/114059.Elbert_Hubbard

Sir James George Frazer (01/01/1854 –1941) Scottish writer

http://www.bartleby.com/196/

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

Sites:

http://www.thedailyhaiku.com/

http://beats23s.livejournal.com/

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/historic-photos-from-the-nyc-municipal-archives/100286/

http://www.economist.com/node/21552535

http://theamericanscholar.org/

History:

May 7

1802 William Wordsworth completes “Resolution-and-Independence”

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/resolution-and-independence

1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va046.htm

1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)

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

Bonus Poem:

Walking to the Ocean: Dawn

I am too tired for sentimentality,

 and the ocean looks cold, so

 I press your cheek to mine, Daniel,

 and we walk out along the promenade--

 you held high in my arms

 It seems natural to be lost in the roll ofwaves

 and the sawing of insects,

 all night to lie hearing this,

 then stand up and walk to the ocean

 while the heat grows around us

 like a room filling up with parachutes

 Hold my hand now, Daniel,

 your plum-size fist

 and darkening lashes precise as flames

 When the doctor cut me open

 and saw you crouching there

 my tenderness spilled out

 Grey, wet boy they pummelled into life,

 what do words like need or sorrow

 mean to you, full or less, my care

 for you all in this outstretched hand

 We walk to the empty beach,

 I am thinking cleanly of your birth

 How could I have imagined

 a love as artless as this

                                    Carolyn Smart

From:   The Way To Come Home. London, Ontario :Brick Books, 1992.

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/smart/poem5.htm