Technique in poetry and were preoccupied with the defending the traditional The Fugitives were practitioners and defenders of formal To mount a defense against the notion that the South did not possess a significant The Fugitives met once a week to discuss poetry-their own and others'-and Tate was the only undergraduate to be admitted to membership in the Fugitives,Īn informal group of Southern intellectuals that included poet Robert Penn Warren. Tate, born in Winchester, Kentucky (1899). It's the birthday of poet and novelist (John Orley) Allen His trombone, he walked off the bandstand. "We won't do it at all." With a derisive blast on "Let's do it right or not do it at all." "All right!"Įxclaimed Tommy. Never Say 'Never Again' Again." "Isn't that a little too fast?"Īsked Jimmy. Taking his own sweet time." On that day, Tommy beat the tempo for "I'll Theīrothers' differences stemmed largely from the fact that "Tommy was alwaysĪ great one for pushing," as their mother recalled, "and Jimmy for Temperamentally, the brothers were exact opposites. Orchestra for which Miller wrote most of the arrangements. At the urging of Glenn Miller, the Dorseys had formed an eleven-piece They played with Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, and joined Paul Whiteman's Both boys were soon playing in their father's band Īnd by the time Tommy was sixteen, they had a band of their own, Dorsey's WildĬanaries. He saw musicĪs their means of escape and began giving them lessons on the cornet as soonĪs they could blow a horn. The father was determined that TommyĪnd his older brother, Jimmy, would not follow him into the mines. Musician who led a band in his spare time. Sentimental Gentleman of Swing." He was the son of a miner and self-taught It's the birthday of trombonist and bandleader Thomas Francisĭorsey, born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania (1905), known as "The Her later works include Theįather (1992), The Wellspring (1992), and Blood, Tin, Straw (1999). The 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award. Has quickly become one of America's most highly regarded poets her readingsĪttract overflow audiences, and her volume The Dead and the Living won Over the course of five books, however, she Her first collection, Satan Says, was published To give up all that she learned at Columbia in order to write her own poems,Įven if they were bad. she stood on the steps of the library at Columbia University and vowed Graduated from Stanford and then moved East finally to attend graduate schoolĪt Ph.D. Words, raised as a "hellfire Calvinist" in Berkeley, California. Olds, born in San Francisco, California (1942). Lasted less than two minutes and many people were not even aware that he had Orator Edward Everett, President Lincoln gave his ten-sentence address, which The National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.Ībraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho San Francisco against your New York, your "Topography," by Sharon Olds from The Gold Cell (Alfred A.
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