June 10

Events:

June 11, Conway Open Mic at the Conway  library at 6:30 pm; with an Open Floor from 6:30 to 7:20. Then after a break for refreshments, Deirdre Randall takes the spotlight at 7:30. Deirdre is a singer/songwriter who performs her own poetry and music accompanied by side guitarist, San, who performs his acoustic interpretations of some classic rock tunes.

Olga   447-5552   omorrill.conwaypubliclibrary.org

One HOT week Coming –up!

June  22 Goffstown  N.H. Apotheca Flower Shop Open Mic-  Music & Poetry 7-9 p.m

SIGN UP AT THE SHOPPE  by calling 497-4940 or email us at:  

    http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/#/open-mic-night/        http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/

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/  http://www.frostplace.org/html/conference-teaching.html

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 in both cities

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 in both cities

June 27 Strafford, At 6:30 Straffords Hill Library presents a reading by Alton poet  Barb Bald from her new book of Poetry , followed by refreshments and an open mic info  664-2800 or Director.metrocast.net

June 28,Concord, 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured reader Andrew Merton reads from , Evidence That We Are Descended From Chairs. Join us for an evening of poetry as Andrew Merton reads and signs his new volume of verse. http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/evidence-chairs  27 S. Main St., hosted by Don Kimball (prisdon.comcast.net)

Born:

John Morgan 1735 –Oct .15,1789 American physician-in-chief of Continental Army

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/morgan_john.html

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832 – 24 March 1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. 

http://www.jamesallenlibrary.com/sir-edwin-arnold/light-of-asia

http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/bhagavadgita_edwin_arnold/bhagavad_gita_edwin_arnold.php

Alexander Al Dubin,  (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C68?exhibitId=68

                      TipToe through the Tulips

Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that is where I'll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me

Oh, tiptoe from the garden
By the garden of the willow tree
And tiptoe through the tulips with me
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tim+tiny/tiptoe+through+the+tulips_20942704.html ]
Knee deep in flowers we'll stray
We'll keep the showers away
And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight
Will you pardon me?
And tiptoe through the tulips with me

Maybe it's flowers you stray will be the showers of life
And when I kiss you in the garden in the moonlight
Will you pardon me and tiptoe through the tulips with me

As sung by Tiny Tim

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tim+tiny/tiptoe+through+the+tulips_20942704.html

Hattie McDaniel  (1895 – 10/02/1952)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567408/

Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-17 November 1979) Russian writer

http://www.velikovsky.info/Main_Page

Frederick Loewe (1904 – 02/14/1988) Austrian composer

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/loewe_f.html

Lin Huiyin, (1904 –April 1, 1955) Chinese poet and architect

http://history.cultural-china.com/en/48History8749.html

Sir Terence Mervyn Ratigan/ Rattigan (1911 –11/30/1977) English writer/Playwright

http://www.terencerattigan.co.uk/

Saul Bellow (1915 – 04/05/2005) Canadian /American author, Nobel Prize for Lit 1976

http://www.amazon.com/Saul-Bellow/e/B000APTGKK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1339293285&sr=8-1

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

Prince Philip  (1921 – )  British Royal Family

http://www.royal.gov.uk/thecurrentroyalfamily/thedukeofedinburgh/thedukeofedinburgh.aspx
Earl Hamner Jr 1923-Schuyler Va, TV narrator (The Waltons)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358839/

Judy Garland  (06/10/1922 – 06/22/1969)  US singer, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000023/

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff 1925- American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal. (Village Voice, The Cold Society)

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff1.asp

Christopher Middleton (, 1926) is a British poet and translator,of German literature.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1003

Maurice Sendak  (1928 – 05/08/2012) American writer and illustrator of children's literature Where the Wild Things Are, 1963.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7838

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/maurice-sendak/
Edward O. Wilson (1929 – ) US scientist, writer

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/01/25/100125fi_fiction_wilson

John Edwards  (1953 – )  US Senator (NC), vice presidential (2004) and presidential (2008) candidate
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/john-edwards-guilty-a-lowlife-degree-article-1.1087837

Anderson Bigode Herzer, (1962 – 1982) Brazilian writer and poet

Jimmy Chamberlain    US drummer (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-chamberlin-mn0000787688

Elizabeth Hurley   (1965 – )   English model, actor
http://celebritywonder.ugo.com/html/elizabethhurley.html

Richard Foreman 1937NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=14797

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/foreman/

F. Lee Bailey (1939 ) US lawyer

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Bailey-F-Lee.html

Jeff Greenfield (1943 – ) US journalist

http://jeffgreenfield.com/

Emma Anderson, 1967 –  British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)

http://whenthesunhitsblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-emma-anderson-of-lush-and.html

Vita Chambers, 1993 – Canadian singer-songwriter

http://www.vitachambers.com/

Passed:

Dr Alexander Barclay (c. 1476 –1552) English/Scottish poet.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20179/20179-h/20179-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32528/32528-h/32528-h.htm

Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes 1524/25-80 Portugal's national poet

http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/camoes_luis_vaz_de.html

Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) Puritan minister and poet The Day of Doom http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry/wigglife.htm

Nathaniel Pryor 1775- 1839 sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition

http://www.lewisandclarkinkentucky.org/people/pryor_bio.shtml

Mrs. Lydia Howard  Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 –1865), American poet

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/sigourney/index.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20504/20504-h/20504-h.htm

Charles Harpur (23 Jan 1813 –1868) Irish Australian poet./  postal clerk

http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/v00003.pdf

Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 –1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.

http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/

Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló, (1845-1902 ) Catalan poet "Prince of Catalan poets".
http://www.enciclopedia.cat/fitxa_v2.jsp?NDCHEC=0070084

http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Oda_a_Barcelona

http://www.lletra.net/en/author/jacint-verdaguer

Dr. Edward Everett Hale (04/03/1822 –1909) US religious leader

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2055

http://www.online-literature.com/edward-hale/

Anton Aškerc, (9th januar 1856 , Globoko pri Rimskih Toplicah, † 10. January 1856 -1912 ) Slovenian poet , priest and archivist

http://www.poemhunter.com/anton-a-kerc/biography/

Frederick Delius  (01/29/1862 –1934)  English composer
http://www.delius.org.uk/

Marcus Garvey  (08/17/1887 –1940)  Jamaican organizer

http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319

Jack Johnson (03/31/1878 –1946) US boxer

http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/BH/jj/jj.htm

Angelina Weld Grimke, (February 27, 1880- 1958) American journalist

For the Candle Light

The sky was blue, so blue, that day,
And each daisy white, so white;
Oh! I knew that no more could rains fall gray,
And night again be night.

I knew! I knew! Well, if night is night,
And the gray skies grayly cry,
I have in a book, for the candle light,
A daisy, dead and dry.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/grimke/additionalpoems.htm

http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/grimkeaw.html

Henry Treece (22 Dec. 911-1966) Brit poet and writer [juvenile historical novels.],also a teacher and editor.

http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/treece.html

S.P.Sterner St. Paul Meek (April 8, 1894-1972) US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?258

William Inge, ( May 3,1913-1973 )American playwright

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=9146

Spencer Tracy  (04/05/1900 –1967)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000075/

Rainer Werner Fassbinder May 31, 1946- 1982 film-maker

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001202/
Louis L'Amour (03/22/1908 –1988) US writer

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

Hachidai Nakamura, (1931-1992 ) Japanese songwriter and pianist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1217393/

Morris Kline (05/01/1908–1992) US mathematician

http://www.amazon.com/Morris-Kline/e/B001H6MNLK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Les Dawson  (02/02/1933 –1993)  English comic

http://www.lesdawson.com/

Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 –1998) British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books

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

John McKay  (07/05/1923 –2001)  US football coach
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/sports/john-mckay-usc-and-buccaneers-coach-dies-at-77.html

Ray Charles (09/23/1930 –2004) US R'n'B and jazz great

http://raycharles.com/

Chinghiz Aitmatov, ( 1928- 2008) Kyrgyzstani-born Soviet writer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/15/culture.obituaries

Sites:

http://www.stonestructures.org/

http://www.discovernewengland.org/new-england-activities/covered-bridges/

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/300958/stark-beauties

http://www.poetryslam.com/

http://www.newliteraryhistory.com/timeline.html

History:

1881, Count Leo Tolstoy donned his peasant coat and homemade bark shoes, gathered his walking staff and two bodyguards, and set out from his estate for the Optina Pustyn monastery

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1974, Tom Stoppard’s Travesties opened

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/a-review-of-travesties-at-the-mccarter-theater-center.html

Bonus Poem:

      What Happens To Women

It’s what happens to women, no matter who you are.
Divine inside? They’ll only see the face.
It’s coming, despite your warmth, your grit, your heart –
the sudden shift from beauty, to disgrace.
A light snapped off, and you’re gone. You’re in the dark.
No-one can see you now. You are unglued,
for while you slept, the world took you softly apart.
Now man after man walks through the ghost of you.

On a morning like any other, she wakes to find
her lover moved out, and all her admirers gone
from her steps, as if with one breath, one mind,
they abandoned their roses there like skeletons.
A half-penned love note stutters towards the sea,
embarrassed, undoing its ‘love’, and ‘dear’, and ‘we’.


                                                        by Ros Barber

about Embassy Court, in Brighton, where the building's fate was compared to that of a once-beautiful woman

http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2006/02/poem-by-ros-barber.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/01/ros-barber-poetry