Monthly Archives: May 2009

Literary Birthdays – May 31 – June 6

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May 31 Judith Wright (born May 31, 1915) – Australian poet, environmentalist, human rights activist Bora Ring The song is gone; the dance is secret with the dancers in the earth, the ritual useless, and the tribal story lost in … Continue reading →

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Literary Birthdays – Week of May 24 – 30

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May 24 Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov (b. 1905) – Russian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature winner (1965) – And Quiet Flows the Don Bob Dylan (b. 1941) – U.S. singer/songwriter – “Like a Rolling Stone” First verse of Rolling Stone Once … Continue reading →

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Literary Birthdays – Week of May 17 – 23

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May 17 Dennis Potter (b. 1935) – British screenwriter, novelist – The Singing Detective Watch a Dennis Potter interview: May 18 Omar Khayyam (b. 1048) – Persian poet, mathematician – The Rubaiyat Excerpt from The Rubaiyat: Oh threats of Hell … Continue reading →

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Literary Birthdays – Week of May 10 – 16

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May 10 Bono (Paul David Hewson) (b. 1960) – Irish singer/songwriter First verse of  “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” I have climbed highest mountains I have run through the fields Only to be with you Only to … Continue reading →

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Literary Birthdays – Week of May 3 – 9

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May 3 Yehuda Amichai (b. 1924) – German-Israeli poet Read the Wikipedia article about Yehuda Amichai here On Yom Kippur in 1967 On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put on my dark holiday clothes and walked … Continue reading →

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