19           EVENTS:   January 19, 2011, Concord: Poets Christine Gelineau and Maxine Kumin will open the Poetry Society of NH’s monthly reading as the features. An open mike will follow at 7 p.m. At Gibson’s Bookstore (603-224-0562; www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org; poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com). January 19, 2011, Cambridge, MA: Poetry at the Cantab Lounge will specialize with a night of Individual World Poetry Slam Finals for the final four rounds. One representative will be chosen to participate in the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS). Cover charge is $5 and will help raise funds for our IWPS representative. There will be no open slam. At 8 p.m., Cantab Lounge (www.slamnews.com; cantab.slamnews.com).       BIRTHDAYS:   Jan 19      Dogen  (1200 – 09/22/1253)  Japanese religious leader http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/D/Dogen/index.htm#PoemList   Nicholas Copernicus, Niclas Koppernigk ; Italian: ; 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04352b.htm   James Watt, 1736 – 25 August 1819). Scot inventor   http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/watt.htm   Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737- 1814; French writer   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PieStud.html   Isaiah Thomas, 1749 - US, printer/editor/publisher/historian   http://www.americanantiquarian.org/briefhistory.htm   Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, 1790 - Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)   http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/576737/8626/Atterbom-oil-painting-by-JG-Sandberg-1841-in-Gripsholm-Castle   http://www.facebook.com/pages/P-D-A-Atterbom/110881168935488   Auguste Comte, Montpellier, France (1798–1857) Phylosopher, founder of school of positivism,   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/   http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16833/16833-h/16833-h.htm   Robert E. Lee  (01/19/1807 – 10/12/1870)  US general   hthttp://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2323/pg2323.html        http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm   Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809 – 10/07/1849)  US horror story writer and poet   http://www.eapoe.org/   http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eapoe.htm   http://www.mysterynet.com/edgar-allan-poe/       Tom Hood the younger 1835 - 20 November 1874), was an English humorist and playwright, son of the poet and author Thomas Hood                                All in the Downs, I would I had something to do - or to think! Or something to read, or to write! I am rapidly verging on Lunacy’s brink, Or I shall be dead before night. In my ears has been ringing and droning all day, Without ever a stop or a change, That poem of Tennyson’s - heart-cheering lay! - Of the Moated Monotonous Grange! The stripes in the carpet and paper alike I have counted, and counted all through. And now I’ve a fervid ambition to strike Out some path of wild pleasure that’s new. They say if a number you count, and re-count, That the time imperceptibly goes: - Ah, I wish - how I wish! - I’d ne’er learnt the amount Of my aggregate fingers and toes. “Enjoyment is fleeting,” the proverbs all say, “Even that, which it feeds upon, fails.” I’ve arrived at the truth of the saying today, By devouring the whole of my nails. I have numbered the minutes, so heavy and slow, Till of that dissipation I tire. And as for exciting amusements - you know One can’t ALWAYS be stirring the fire!   http://atouchofculture.blogspot.com/   Paul Cezanne  (1839 – 10/22/1906)  French painter http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/bio.html   Augustine Birrell  1850 – 11/20/1933)  English politician, scholar http://www.bookrags.com/Augustine_Birrell   Eugene Brieux, 1858 -1932  French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)   http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/eugene_brieux_001.html   Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (1879 - 1925)   http://stpetersburg.berkeley.edu/alexis/al_savinkov.html   http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719003,00.html   Alexander Woolcott   (1887 – 01/23/1943)U.S. short-story writer and critic   http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/wool.htm   http://www.nndb.com/people/422/000073203/   Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (1913 - 1955)   http://www.poemhunter.com/rex-ingamells/   Nigel Nicolson  (1917 – 09/23/2004)  English writer   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nigel-nicolson-550531.html   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3616437   Patricia Highsmith [ Mary Patricia Plangman] (1921-1995) U.S. mystery writer   http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/02/this-woman-is-dangerous/   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm   Ken S. Keyes, Jr.  (1921 – 12/20/1995)  US writer   http://kloudjin.blogspot.com/2007/01/ken-keyes-hundredth-monkey.html   http://mindprod.com/livinglove/obit.html   Jean Francois Revel, 1924 -  French journalist/author (Ni Marx ni Jesus)   http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Americanism-Jean-Francois-Revel/dp/1893554856   Richard Lester  (1932 – )  US director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504513/   George Mann MacBeth (1932-1992) Scottish/British poet   http://www.bookrags.com/biography/george-mann-macbeth-dlb/   Arto Tuovinen (1933-1968) Finnish journalist, novelist, and translator.   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/artotuov.htm   Janis Joplin  (1943 – 10/04/1970)  US singer ,   http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.2/JanisJoplinBio.html   Julian Barnes (1946) English writer   http://www.julianbarnes.com/   http://www.alwaysontherun.net/janis.htm   Dolly Parton  (1946 – )  US singer-songwriter   http://www.dollypartonmusic.net/   Cindy Sherman, 1954 - American artist   http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml   John Wozniak, 1971 -  American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)   http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p200676/biography   http://www.marcyplayground.com/               PASSED:       Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1547) Eng Poet     http://www.poemhunter.com/henry-howard/   http://www.sonnets.org/surrey.htm   William Congreve,   (01/24/1670 –1729) English writer  poet,   http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc58.html   http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/congreve_william.html   Charles Earl of Dorset, 1636-1706 Eng.B.P.    http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/285.html   Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar / grammarian 1674-1757   http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_Ruddiman   Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic 1713- 1785   http://www.archive.org/details/dionysiilongini00ruhngoog   Isaac Disraeli, Eng miscellaneous writer, 1848.   http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=389&letter=D   Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer 1805-1851   http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Jose_Esteban_Echeverria.aspx   http://www.atanet.org/publications/beacons_10_pages/page_119.pdf   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  (01/15/1809 –1865)  French writer http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/index.htm   Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar 1873- 1929   http://history.cultural-china.com/en/50History6660.html   Thomas Hart Heart Benson Benton, American painter 1889-1975   http://www.encore-editions.com/categories/thomas-hart-benton-american-master-painter   William O. Douglas  (10/16/1898 –1980)   US Supreme Court Justice   http://www.oyez.org/justices/william_o_douglas   Gerald Brenan  (04/07/1894 –1987)  English writer   http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/17/gerald-brenan-biographical-notes/   John Russell, 1991  actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky)   http://www.peterbrown.tv/johnrussell.html   http://www.nndb.com/people/625/000102319/   Eugene Fuller, 1995  polymath/linguist   http://www.sil.org/acpub/repository/15207.pdf   //  p113   Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer 1938- 1995   http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002150   Bernard Baily, 1996  comic artist    http://lambiek.net/artists/b/baily_bernard.htm   Donald Simpson, 1996   film producer   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800971/   James Dickey  (02/02/1923 –1997)  US writer /poet   http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickey/dickey.htm   http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_dickey/poems   http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/dickey/jdindex.htm       Creation Made Like Hope   Ethereal and supreme Of tersest heaven it has pronounced a daily storm While hours have been supreme, it has had hours in its glee A purple name has covered the fans of sovereign things about its existence Has raised and has rased, but there has been no death in these mornings Has experienced and has perched Has put up with it and has disinvested Has raised and has razed Has pondered and has asked Has said and has raised   http://www.poemhunter.com/james-dickey/poems/           Carl Perkins, 1998 - singer/songwriter   http://www.nndb.com/people/480/000022414/   http://rockabillytennessee.com/legend_carl_perkins.htm   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGUP8oc9Bgs   Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist 1916-2003   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/franccediloise-giroud-746225.html   K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist 1974- 2005   http://www.feministafrica.org/index.php/k-sello-duiker   John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) 1939-2008   http://www.chillywinds.com/             SITES:   http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/index.php   http://twotrees.www.50megs.com/attic/quotes/leaders.html   http://thedartmouth.com/2011/01/18/arts/meme   http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html   http://www.todayinliterature.com/   http://www.davidsurette.com/   http://seacoastjournal.podomatic.com/entry/2010-12-17T12_39_03-08_00**   http://htmlgiant.com/behind-the-scenes/the-writer-at-work/#more-52128    ** from tammi t   http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html                                                       BONUS POEM:       Haiku - Wacht am Rhein       Watching until dawn matches embers' umber gleam, some sentinels yawn. 10 January 1993 revised 17 January 2010 Jonathan ROBIN   http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/haiku-wacht-am-rhein/