26 EVENTS: – 7 pm – Bridge Café, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)   BIRTHDAYS:   Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (1436 - 1463) http://www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2003/queenscatherine.htm Sir James Ware, antiquary, 1591 http://members.cox.net/wdegidio/ware/WaresofIreland.htm Dr. William Derham, natural philosopher, 1657, http://www.upminster.com/history/people/willian-derham.htm Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, 1663 -  Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) http://www.famousamericans.net/pedroperaltabarnuevo/ Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (1703 - 1758) http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10598/pg10598.html William Cowper, (1731-1800), England, pre-romantic poet   My Soul is Sad and much Dismayed My soul is sad and much dismayed; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, My heav’nly pilgrimage oppose! See, from the over-burning lake How like a smoky cloud they rise! With horrid blasts my soul they shake, With storms of blasphemies and lies. Their fiery arrows reach the mark, My throbbing heart with anguish tear; Each lights upon a kindred spark, And finds abundant fuel there. I hate the thought that wrongs the Lord; O, I would drive it from my breast, With Thy own sharp two-edged sword, Far as the east is from the west! Come then, and chase the cruel host, Heal the deep wounds I have received! Nor let the pow’rs of darkness boast That I am foiled, and Thou art grieved! http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/c/o/w/cowper_w.htm     Carl P Fohr, 1795 - German painter http://www.artnet.com/artist/649939/carl-philipp-fohr.html Herman Gorter, 1864 -1927  Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem) http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/index.htm Edmond Fleg[enheimer], 1874 - Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel) http://orthoprax.blogspot.com/2005/08/why-i-am-jew-by-edmond-fleg.html Bart A van der Leck, 1876 -  Dutch painter http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leck_bart_van_der.html Franz Jung, 1888 -  writer http://www.renaissance-psychotherapy.com/franz_jung.htm Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (1889 - 1976) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226387/ George Emlyn Williams  (11/26/1905 – 09/25/1987)   Welsh critic , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930539/ Eugene Ionesco  (1912 – 03/28/1994)  Roumanian playwright http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ionesco.htm http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsI/ionesco-eugene.html Eric Sevareid  (1912 – 07/09/1992)  US telejournalist http://www.nndb.com/people/219/000112880/ Paul T B Rodenko, 1920 - poet/author (Stolen Lover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4tMlh57Zo Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (1920 - 2004) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677951/ Francoise Gilot, 1921 - painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984 http://www.francoisegilot.com/home.php Charles M. Schulz  (1922 – 02/12/2000)  US comic artist http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/schulz_bio.html George Segal, 1924 -  New York, American painter and sculptor http://www.artcyclopedia.com/gallery/segal_george.html Marilynne Robinson, 1943 - American writer http://www.iblist.com/author9079.htm http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-8-2010/marilynne-robinson Tracy [Raye] Hickman, 1955 -  US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning) http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/tracy-hickman/ Kara Walker, 1969 -  American artist http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker     PASSED   John Spottiswoode, [Spotswood]  Scottish historian (1565-1639 ) http://www.jstor.org/pss/4245835 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), 1688 http://www.quinault.info/Home/annonces-1/philippe-quinault--dramatist  Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), 1855 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mickie.htm Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, 1857 -  German poet http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Joseph_Freiherr_Von_Eichendorff Sojourner Truth  (11/18/1797 –1883)  US abolitionist http://www.sojournertruth.org/History/Biography/Default.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1674/pg1674.html Coventry Patmore, British poet ( 1823- 1896) http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/251.html http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4099/pg4099.html George, Lord Nugent (poetry, biography, &c.), Lillies, Bucks; http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=8791&size=large http://www.archive.org/stream/adictionaryanon00laingoog/adictionaryanon00laingoog_djvu.txt Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) Ger/Brit Poetess Hope   All treasures of the earth and opulent seas, Metals and odorous woods and cunning gold, Fowls of the air and furry beasts untold, Vineyards and harvest fields and fruitful trees Nature gave unto Man; and last her keys Vouched passage to her secret ways of old Whence knowledge should be wrung, nay power to mould Out of the rough, his occult destinies. But tired of these he craved a wider scope: Then fair as Pallas from the brain of Jove From his deep wish there sprang, full-armed, to cope With all life's ills, even very death in love, The only thing man never wearies of-- His own creation--visionary Hope.                                                                 http://www.sonnets.org/blind.htm  http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=blinma Charles G. D. Roberts (1943) Can.Poet,teacher,soldier The Frosted Pane                 One night came Winter noiselessly, and leaned                  Against my window-pane.               In the deep stillness of his heart convened                   The ghosts of all his slain.                 Leaves, and ephemera, and stars of earth,                  And fugitives of grass, --               White spirits loosed from bonds of mortal birth,                   He drew them on the glass. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/278.html Aleksei M Remizov, 1957   Russian author (Iveren), http://www.jstor.org/pss/3730537 Cyril Connolly  (09/10/1903 –1974)  English writer http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPconnollyC.htm Francois Billetdoux, 1991 -  French author (Word Awake) http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-11-28/news/1991332023_1_chin-chin-movie-batman-war-ii Mart Kempers, sculptor, 1993 http://daddytypes.com/2008/10/02/more_dutch_memories_canada_and_the_abcs_of_dental_care.php Terri Jewell, 1995  writer http://www.jstor.org/pss/2904372 Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), 1996 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-michael-bentine-1354624.html Ashley Montagu  (06/28/1905 –1999)  English anthropologist http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/montagu.html Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer ( 1943-2001 ) http://www.utexas.edu/courses/sami/diehtu/siida/reindeer/valk.htm Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (1955-2002) http://www.cuba-junky.com/cuba/polo.html Stefan Wul, French writer (1922-2003) http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Wul%2C%20Stefan/aid/5519003 Stan Berenstain, children's author (1923-2005) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901210.html Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (1923-2006 ) poem Light occurs when shadows are eliminated Shadows are what exist shadows have their own exhaustive life not on this or that side of light but in its very heart intensely loving     insanely beloved and they spread over the ground their arms of gray light that enter human eyes at the corners On the other hand the shadow called light doesn’t illuminate     objects     really objects live in the dark in a perpetual surrealist aurora which we cannot contact except the way lovers do with eyes closed and lamps in our fingers     lamps on our lips                                                                                                  Translation: 2005, Richard Zenith     http://portugal.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=4653 Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (1943-2006) http://www.davecockrum.net/ Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (1913- 2007 ) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866061/     SITES: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/11/25/a_hobbled_pelosi_keeps_on_playing/ http://www.true majority.org/index.php http://songsoftheopenroad.wordpress.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IbyPio9Dl0 http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue05/poets/Dobby_Gibson.htm http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/ http://www.shambhala.com/ http://www.gilmantonnh.org/ http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_148_17-apocalypses-well-never-see-coming_p17#4 http://www.boredpanda.com/folded-paper-art-by-simon-schubert/       HISTORY: publication of Robert Browning's Dramatic Lyrics (1842) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28041/28041-h/28041-h.htm http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Robert+Browning's+%22Dramatic+Lyrics%22%3A+Contribution+to+a+Genre-a082322117 The Independent publishes E. A. Robinson's "Richard Cory" http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1735.html       BONUS POEM:                             “Sonnet”                     What is this witness, the watching ages, yield of hours, blurred nights, the blue commerce limned limpidities the skies rehearse dreaming their seasons, raptured in their rages. Eventless auction the sun screams and stages for outered spectacles that bloom their source, or eyes are mouths and utter tongued remorse— read me, augur, from the wrists of sages the shocks and tangencies strangled in their veins. Or stars are livid links in lucent chains. Heart will read its figure in its willing or blinded needle the compass stains; lidless volumes and vortices of pains distinct the dolor, and kind the killing.                                                            by Karen Volkman