June 24

Events:

June 24 - 27 Franconia,NH,at 7:30 pm: Poetry readings in the Henry Holt Barn at The Frost Place.

- Events are free and open to the public - http://www.frostplace.org/

June 24 (Portland-ME.) and Mon June 25 (Portsmouth-South Church) AMBUSHED BY POETRY: Portland and Portsmouth: Passion and Pride Featuring Timothy Liu (on the faculty of William Patterson University and Bennington College), editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000), Bruce Spang, 3rd Portland (ME) Poet Laureate, John-Michael Albert, 8th Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate, and guest readers i

June 25 (Portsmouth-South Church)
AMBUSHED BY POETRY: Portland and Portsmouth: Passion and Pride Featuring Timothy Liu (on the faculty of William Patterson University and Bennington College), editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000), Bruce Spang, 3rd Portland (ME) Poet Laureate, John-Michael Albert, 8th Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate,

Born:

6/24

Theodore Beza 1519- 13-Oct-1605 Reformation leader, Calvin's successor

http://www.tlogical.net/biobeza.htm
St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), aka San Juan de la Cruz, born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, Spanish poet and Carmelite priest, famous for three mystical poems, including La Noche oscura del alma (published 1618; transl. as Dark Night of the Soul)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08480a.htm

John Archibald Campbell 1811-12-Mar-1889 US Supreme Court Justice, 1853-61

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

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 03/08/1887) American Congregationalist preacher/ writer

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h729.html

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831 – 09/29/1910) US writer

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/davis.html

George Shiels 1881- 19th September 1949,  Irish playwright  The New Gossoon (1930), The Passing Day (1936), and The Rugged Path (1940).

http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/shiels.htm

Gustavus Swift 1839- 29 Mar 1903. American manufacturer and inventor

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dis02

Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce  (06/24/1842 – ?/1914)  US writer- journalist, short story writer,Devil’s Dictiomary author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1960

http://www.ambrosebierce.org/works.html

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Brooks Adams 1848-Feb.13,1927 Historian The Law of Civilization and Decay

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/progress/BrooksAdamsBio.html

Irving Pichel  1891-July 13,1954 Film Director Destination Moon

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681635/

Roy O. Disney1893-Dec.20,1971  businessman Disneyland

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228397/

Jack Dempsey (1895 – 05/31/1983) US boxer

http://museumtrail.org/jackdempseymuseum.asp

Bruce Marshall  1899-June 18,1987 Novelist, The White Rabbit

http://www.iblist.com/author11073.htm

Gene Austin  1900-Jan.24,1972  Vaudeviller crooner and songwriter"My Blue Heaven,"

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gene-austin-mn0000193843

Harry Partch  (1901-3-Sep-1974     ). avant-garde / Hobo composer, built his own painstakingly constructed instruments: his 72-string kithara; his boos (marimba-like reeds); his cloud-chamber bowls; and his blowboys, made of bellows, organ pipes and an auto exhaust.

http://www.corporeal.com/instbro/instintr.html
Ernesto Sábato, 1911-30-Apr-2011 Argentinian physics professor, novelist, and winner of the 1984 Cervantes Prize; Angel of Darkness

http://www.amazon.com/Ernesto-R.-Sábato/e/B001HD0VVW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1340523481&sr=8-2

Norman Cousins (1912 – 11/30/1990) US writer journalist (The Saturday Review), essayist (Who Speaks for Man?) ,world peace advocateand promoter of holistic healing

http://www.joeyguse.com/2007/07/how-marx-brothers-brought-norman.html

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 – 08/20/2001) English astronomer, mathematician, proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe; coining the term "Big Bang" in the last of those talks.

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

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1311

John Ciardi (1916 – 03/30/1986) US writer translator (Dante's Inferno) and etymologist (A Browser's Dictionary, A Second Browser's Dictionary and Good Words to You), 1916. poet, critic, and translator

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/680

http://harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/ciardi.php

          epitaph

Here, time concurring (and it does);
Lies Ciardi. If no kingdom come,
A kingdom was. Such as it was
This one beside it is a slum.

                                       -J Ciardi    

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21676

Yves Bonnefoy 1923- French poet, essayist, translator, and art historian Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve

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

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1790/the-art-of-poetry-no-69-yves-bonnefoy

Summer Again

I walk on in the snow. I’ve closed
My eyes, but the light knows how to breach
My porous lids. And I perceive
That in my words it’s still the snow
That eddies, thickens, shears apart.

Snow,
Letter we find again and unfold:
And the ink has paled and the bleached-out marks
Betray an awkwardness of mind
Which makes their lucid shadows just a muddle.

And we try to read, we can’t retrieve from memory
Who’s taking such an interest in ourselves—unless
It’s summer again; unless we see the leaves
Behind the snowflakes, and the heat
Rising from the absent ground like mist.

translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers

http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-bonnefoy.html

Jack Carter  1923  Stand up comic/Actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141660/

David McTaggart 1932-2001 cofounded Greenpeace

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/24/world/david-mctaggart-a-builder-of-greenpeace-dies-at-69.html
Sam Jones 1933- Boston Celtic, Hall of Famer

http://www.nba.com/history/legends/sam-jones/index.html

Pete Hamill 1935 – US journalist

http://www.petehamill.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=DPUe90H4rD0C&pg=PT238&lpg=PT238&dq=pete+hamill+1962+newspaper+strike&source=bl&ots=NHSQlHs1_v&sig=78g29iWoKTf385vxEGeQs4RSLvI&hl=en&ei=9FymTYGBGsia0QGDytj5CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Robert Downey, Sr 1936- Film Director Greaser's Palace

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002049/

Anita Desai (1937-)  Bengali-German novelist Cry, the Peacock

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

Charles Nikki Brown (1937 – July 12, 2009)    co-founder and editor of Locus, the long-running news and reviews magazine covering the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature

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

Lawrence Block 1938-

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3875

http://www.lawrenceblock.com/

Stephen Dunn (1939- ) US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner

http://www.stephendunnpoet.com/

Charles Whitman 1941-1-Aug-1966 Texas University Tower sharpshooter- a total of 49 victims including himself

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5921

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJIGYerpLg

Julia Kristeva 1941- Psychoanalyst, linguistic philosopher

https://www.msu.edu/~chrenkal/980/POLITICS.HTM

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/kristeva.html

Mick Fleetwood, 1942- . British rocker(Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mick-fleetwood-mn0000404915

Arthur Brown 1944-  Brit. Musician The God of Hellfire

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/arthur-brown-mn0000510278

Jeff Beck, 1944- British rocker (The Honeydrippers, Jeff Beck Group and The Yardbirds)

http://www.jeffbeck.com/

George Pataki 1945-  American politician who was the 53rd Governor Governor of New York, 1995-2006

http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_york/col2-content/main-content-list/title_pataki_george.html

Robert Reich (1946 – ) US writer, politician

http://robertreich.org/

Charles Sturridge 1951-  Film Director FairyTale: A True Story

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836430/

Hope Sandoval 1966 Singer/Songwriter Mazzy Star

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mazzy-star-mn0000401287

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hope-sandoval-mn0000265771

Michael Newdow 1953  Activist who Waged war against "under God"

http://restorethepledge.com/

Ralph Reed  1961-    Activist  /Former head of the Christian Coalition

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/732ujayv.asp

Passed:

June 24

Vespasian   15-Dec-37 – 79 AD  Roman Emperor, 69-79 AD

http://www.roman-emperors.org/vespasia.htm

Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (April 12, 1550 -1604) poet

http://www.elizabethanauthors.org/oxfordpoems.htm

Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresc  Dec /1/1580-1637 Astronomer  Discovered Orion Nebula

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ufhatch/pages/11-ResearchProjects/peiresc/06rp-p-biog.htm

Edward Taylor (1642-1729) New England Puritan minister

http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry/taylor.htm

Adam Lindsay Gordon (10/19/1833 -1870) Brit /Australian poet, jockey and politician.

http://www.brightoncemetery.com/HistoricInterments/150Names/gordona.htm

            from Rippling Water

Brian is headstrong, rash, and vain
(The rippling water murmurs still),
Stephen is somewhat duller of brain,
Slower of speech and milder of will ;
Stephen must toil a living to gain,
Plough and harrow and gather the grain ;
Brian has little enough to maintain
The station in life which he needs must fill ;
Both are fearless and kind and frank,
But we can't win all gifts under the sun—
What have I won save riches and rank ?
(The rippling water murmurs on.)

Riches and rank, and what beside
(The rippling water murmurs yet),
The mansion is stately, the manor is wide,
Their lord for a while may pamper and pet ;
Liveried lackeys may jeer aside,
Though the peasant girl is their master's bride,
At her shyness, mingled with with awkward pride,—
'Twere folly for trifles like these to fret ;
But the love of one that I cannot love,
Will it last when the gloss of his toy is gone ?
Is there naught beyond, below, or above ?
(The rippling water murmurs on.)

http://www.poemhunter.com/adam-lindsay-gordon/poems/

Robert Dale Owen  9-Nov-1801-1877 Activist The Wrong of Slavery

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/economic/owencoop.htm

Grover Cleveland (03/18/1837 -1908) US President (22, 24)

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/american-timelines/grover-cleveland-timeline.htm

Sarah Orne Jewett (09/03/1849 -1909) US writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17481

http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/sj-index.htm

Frank King  9-Apr-1883- 1969 Cartoonist Gasoline Alley

http://stevestiles.com/gasalley.htm

Westbrook Pegler (08/02/1894 -1969) US writer- Ultraconservative newspaper columnist

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

Willy Ley (October 2, 1906 - 1969) German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?458

William Keighley  4-Aug-1889-1984 Film Director The Man Who Came to Dinner

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445033/

Rex Warner (9 March ,1905- 1986) English poet, novelist, translator, and scholar of classical literature The Aerodrome (1941) Poems and Contradictions (1945)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085140/

http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/people/rex-warner

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Rex+Warner%22

Jackie Gleason (02/26/1916 –1987)  US actor, singer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/

Brian Keith  (11/14/1921 -1997)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001417/

Leonid Hurwicz  21-Aug-1917-2008 Economist Mechanism design theory

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/hurwicz-bio.html

Sites:

http://aintiawriter.blogspot.com/

http://timelines.ws/

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11986/pg11986.html

http://grumbooks.blogspot.com/

http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:poems_by_natasha_trethewey

http://howtoplanwriteanddevelopabook.blogspot.com/

History:

June 24

843		Vikings destroy Nantes

http://www.vikings.com/index.html

1949		"Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

http://www.hopalong.com/home.asp

1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat   http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/era.htm
1997 4-1, Mark McGwire** hits a 538 foot home run http://hittrackeronline.com/

Bonus Poem:
Exchanging Hats

Unfunny uncles who insist
in trying on a lady's hat,
--oh, even if the joke falls flat,
we share your slight transvestite twist

in spite of our embarrassment.
Costume and custom are complex.
The headgear of the other sex
inspires us to experiment.

Anandrous aunts, who, at the beach
with paper plates upon your laps,
keep putting on the yachtsmen's caps
with exhibitionistic screech,

the visors hanging o'er the ear
so that the golden anchors drag,
--the tides of fashion never lag.
Such caps may not be worn next year.

Or you who don the paper plate
itself, and put some grapes upon it,
or sport the Indian's feather bonnet,
--perversities may aggravate

the natural madness of the hatter.
And if the opera hats collapse
and crowns grow draughty, then, perhaps,
he thinks what might a miter matter?

Unfunny uncle, you who wore a
hat too big, or one too many,
tell us, can't you, are there any
stars inside your black fedora?

Aunt exemplary and slim,
with avernal eyes, we wonder
what slow changes they see under
their vast, shady, turned-down brim.

   by Elizabeth Bishop