The Cool Grey City of Love
by George Sterling
Legends of San Francisco
by George W. Caldwell, M.D.(1919)

A LITTLE HISTORY

March 1, 1555`~ Nostradamus published his Book of Centuries, containing all his prophecies, which have been disputed ever since.

March 1, 1919 ~ Man Ray, American dadaist/surrealist artist and photographer, published the only issue of TNT, an anarchist magazine, this month. He also illustrated a number of anarchist publications, including Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth."

March 3, 1965
Owsley starts making LSD: large quantities of acid available
for the first time.
Owsley Obituary,New York Times.

March 7, 1974 ~ Commenting on the SLA's Patricia Hearst ransom demand of free food for the poor, California's Gov. Ronald Reagan says, "It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."

March 12, b.c.370 CE ~ born, Hypatia of Alexandria, daughter of Theon of Alexandria,
known as the Divine Pagan. Hypatia and the longer version of The Martyrdom of Hypatia
(or The Death of the Classical World)

"To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing" ~ Hypatia of Alexandria~

March 10, 1987***
United Nations( originated in San Francisco) Human Rights Commission recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

March 11, 1976
Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers.

March 14th is International Pi Day

March 15,1904 ~James Joyce, 22, awarded a bronze medal in a Dublin singing contest, promptly threw it into a river.

Patrick Henry, American lawyer and patriot, spoke these famous words on March 23, 1775
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

March 26, 1882 ~ Young Oscar Wilde arrives in San Francisco.
"Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and made his way across the bay to the Bohemian Club, where he is reported to have drunk his hosts under the table." ... Kevin Starr (California: A History)

March 31, 1967~ San Francisco Mime Troupe appears at Fluxfest at Longshoremen's Hall.The Mime Troups is collectively owned & operated by its workers.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Mar. 2, 1927- Mar. 7, 2005, poet Philip Lamantia born in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood to Sicilian imimmigrants, self-taught literary prodigy, his poetry first published in the Surrealist magazine View when he was fifteen. He later became involved with the San Francisco Beat Generation poets and The Surrealist Movement in the United States.

March 2, 1942 ~ Lou Reed, was wild man of rock, a founding member of the Velvet Underground in the late 1960s
Former Czech President and onetime dissident playwright Václav Havel was once said to have asked Lou Reed, "Did you know I am president because of you?
Václav Havel & Lou Reed ~
Lou Reed "Sweet Jane"(Utube)

March 6, 1475~sculptor, painter, architect, and poet Michelangelo
born in Caprese, Italy (1475)

March 6,1806 ~ poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was born near Durham, England (1806). Many of her love poems were sonnets for or about her husband, the poet Robert Browning, She had met him after he sent her a telegram that praised her writing. She married him in 1846 in secret, when she was 40 years old and She ran away with him to Florence, Italy, because her father had forbidden her to marry.
If Thou Must Love Me- a poem

I love thee to the depth and breadthand height my soul can reach.

Browning campaigned for the abolition of slavery and her work helped influence reform in the child labour legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

March 9, 1892 ~ poet, novelist
Vita Sackville-West in Sevenoaks Kent (1892-1962)
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

March 12, 1922 , Birth of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Lowell, Massachusetts. Novelist/poet, leading figure and spokesman of the Beat Generation. Best known for "On the Road" (1957) -- written in three weeks.
Kerouac reading On the Road
(youtube video
Kerouac’s Lowell: A Life on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers
Photographs and essay by John Suiter ~ Jack’s city as seen through the lens of photographer John Suiter, author of Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the Cascades.

March 14,1879 ~ Happy Birthday Albert Einstein.Einstein Quotes

March 20, Happy Birthday, San Francisco poet Edward Mycue, “Ed Mycue's poetry is a lifetime of surprises. He was born surprised, grew up on wonder, and now surely lives under the ever crashing waterfalls of amazement. His language is pure chirp, flip and rouse. It never ever sleeps. Savor his lines — like memory — for as long as you dare”
About Ed Mycue
Selected Poetry by Ed MyCue

March 26, 1874 ~born, Robert Frost, (1874-1963) beloved American poet was born in San Francisco, somewhere north of Market & East of Van Ness. There is Robert Frost Plaque on the corner of Drumm & Market, across from the California Street Cable Car turntable.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. "
...Robert Frost,
from 'The Road Not Taken', (1916)

March 26,1930 ~ American poet & youngest member of the Beats, Gregory Corso, in New York

March 26, 1938 ~
Happy Birthday
Ali Mongo. most
prolific artist, world traveler,
good cook, free thinker!
The painting is 0ne of the four views of Ali Mongo painted by Jerry Ferrraz, inspired by Sean O' Donnell's photographs.

March 26, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Agneta Falk Hirschman,poet,visual artist, editor and translator, was born in Stockholm,
Sweden. After completing her studies in literature and theater in Sweden, she moved to Britain in the 60s where she worked as a teacher of creative writing. Her first book of poems in English was Here by Choice (1980). In 1996, with Judi Benson, Agneta Falk co-edited The Long Pale Corridor, an anthology of elegiac poems, distinguished for its vigorous fight against human trafficking. Agneta continues in the struggle In1998, she moved to San Francisco and has organized and participated in many international poetry festivals. Agneta's poetry is translated into many languages & she exhibits her art internationally.
Global Notation, a poem from her book, It's Not Love, It's Love, 2000.
Put your Heart to the Wall and Listen,
Casa della poesia , Salerno
Multimedia Edizionis.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

March 30, 1853 ~ Vincent Van Gogh!
was born on this day. In1987 ,Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sold for 39.9 million, almost four times the previous record paid for a single work of art. During his lifetime, van Gogh sold only one painting.
(March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890)

"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck. Your profession is what you are put here on earth to do with such passion
and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."... Van Gogh

March 30, 1844, French lyric poet, and lover of poet Arthur Rimbaud. Paul Verlaine

March 31, 1596, born, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. René Descartes, *

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as
possible, all things".

March 31, 1914 ~ Octavio Paz, Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature., recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1990. He liked to end his reading with this poem titled:

Brotherhood

"I am a man. Little do I last.
And the night is enormous.
But I look up. The star is right.
Unknowing, I understand.
I too am written, and at this very moment, someone spells me out."

March 31, 1929 ~ born, painter Jay DeFeo San Francisco artist of the Beat Generation, is mainly known for one monumental painting although her artistic career covered 40 years. 'The Rose,.
Whitney Museum Exhibion
(died. Nov. 11, 1980, aged 60)
Jay DeFeo web site
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH