Thursday’s Poem: “On Catalpa Street” by Jo McDougall from Towns Facing Railroads. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1938 that a radio broadcast based on a science fiction novel caused mass hysteria across New England: Orson Welles’s adaptation of War of the Worlds. The first part of the broadcast imitated news bulletins and announced that Martians had invaded New Jersey. There was a disclaimer at the beginning of the program explaining that it was fictional, but many people tuned…