"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale.
 The work was first published in the July 1918 issue of Harper's Magazine, and later included in her 1920 collection "Flame and Shadow" (see 1920 in poetry).
 The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished.
 The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war (lines 10 and 12), which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later.
Mesne (pronounced "mean") profits are sums of money paid for the occupation of land to a person with right of immediate occupation, where no permission has been given for that occupation.
 The concept is feudal in origin, and common in countries which rely on the English legal system (including many former British colonies).
 The word is derived from the root word demesne.
Alice Marion Cummings (1876 - 1926) was a California-born poet, philosopher, and academic.
 She taught philosophy, psychology, and the history of education for most of her career at University of Arizona.
 Cummings edited two poetry anthologies and her own poetry was published in popular periodicals such as "Smart Set", "Harper's", "Commonwealth", "Lippincott's", and "The Forum".
 Cummings had a short-lived but intense friendship with poet Sara Teasdale, who wrote several poems about Cummings.
 The two continued their friendship through correspondence.
The Convention of Balta Liman of 1 May 1849 was an agreement between the Russian Empire and the Ottomans regulating the political situation of the two Danubian Principalities (the basis of present-day Romania), signed during the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848.
 Moldavia, which had been placed under Russian occupation in late spring 1848 following a revolutionary attempt, and Wallachia, where a liberal Provisional Government had briefly assumed power before facing a common Ottoman-Russian reaction, were confirmed their previous status of Ottoman suzerainty and Russian protectorate (first established in 1831–32 by the "Regulamentul Organic").
 Minor provisions were added, signifying a relative increase in Ottoman influence—namely, "hospodars" were no longer elected by the local National Assemblies for life, and instead appointed by the Sublime Porte for seven-year terms.
 A common military presence was maintained until 1851.
 The document led to the appointment of Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei as hospodar of Wallachia and Grigore Alexandru Ghica as hospodar of Moldavia.
 The Convention was rendered void by the Crimean War (during which the Principalities fell under Austrian occupation), and the statutory system itself was annulled by the 1856 Treaty of Paris.
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.
 She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914.
Matilde Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet who also wrote non-fiction.
The Potters was an informal group of American female artists in St. Louis, Missouri, who printed their original art, poetry and prose in "The Potter's Wheel", a monthly artistic and literary magazine produced from November 1904 to October 1907.
 The group was mentored by Lillie Rose Ernst, assistant superintendent of education in the St. Louis public school system.
 Several members of the group went on to have successful careers in the arts, notably Sara Teasdale, Caroline Risque, and the Parrish Sisters.
William Marion Reedy (1862–1920) was a St. Louis-based editor best known for his promotion of the poets Sara Teasdale, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg to the audience of his newspaper, "Reedy's Mirror".
 Politically, Reedy was a liberal Democrat and advocated Georgist economics.
Cross Damon was a fictional character from Richard Wright's 1953 novel "The Outsider".
 Cross Damon was viewed as an "outsider" who did not attempt to become a product of the established culture of American society.
 Cross was considered a complete opposite to Bigger Thomas, another character created by Richard Wright in his novel "Native Son".
 He also ridicules Communist techniques and lives according to the principles of free choice.
 Cross Damon committed murder in a completely different spirit than Bigger Thomas.
 He acts as an individual who is free to do whatever his habits and desires lead him to do.
 His is not a victim of social and environmental pressures outside his control.
 In many ways, Cross Damon resembles Meursault, the hero of Albert Camus novel "The Stranger".
 Both men lived outside of any involvement with common humanity and paid no attention to social mores.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg composed his Requiem Op. 96 between 1965 and 1967.
 Like other Soviet Requiems such as Dmitri Kabalevsky's it does not set to music the Roman Rite liturgy, but secular poems by Mikhail Dudin, Munetoshi Fukugawa, Federico García Lorca, Dmitri Kedrin and Sara Teasdale.
 The use of anti-war texts links this work to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, which Weinberg knew well.

Question: Matilde Camus and Sara Teasdale, have which occupation in common?
Answer: poet