Dec. 1 5

Events:

Portsmouth ,Dec 15   Beat Night ;3rd Thursday of the month - A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT  The Annual Beat Night World Poetry Holiday Celebration-Poetry From Around the World with live music by The Larry Simon Ensemble 7PM  The Press Room • 77 Daniel St Portsmouth NH •  Phone (603) 431-5186 • Admission free    www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)

Correction:

I forgot that Katie doesn’t do the show in December-I am sorry if I confused anyone…Skip… Thank you Barb.

3^rd Thursday of the month - 7pm - Effingham Public Library, 30 Townhouse Road, Effingham - Writer's Night with features and open mic (539-1537 or katiemccarthy.adelphia.net )

I reported in my weekly “AsISeeIt” That there was a Writers Night. Katie doesn’t do the show in December. Sorry if I confused anyone.

Born:

December 15

Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus ,0037- 9 June 68) 5th emperor of Rome (54-68)

http://www.sien-neron.fr/?lang=en

http://www.bible-history.com/nero/
Charles Cowden Clarke , 1787 - 13 March 1877), English author scholar,  editor/Shakespearean critic

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=35228

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?keywords=Charles+Cowden+Clarke&st=sh&ac=qr&submit=
Charles Edgar Duryea , 1861 - September 28, 1938) US engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19194

Charlotte Mew  (1869 - 1928 / Poet London / England)

A Quoi Bon Dire

Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old
But you.

       And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.

       http://www.sappho.com/poetry/c_mew.html

Maxwell Anderson  (1888 – 02/28/1959)  US playwright ,/ dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/anderson.html

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc78.html

J. Paul Getty  (1892 – 06/06/1976)  US oil magnate (Getty Oil) zillionaire
http://www.getty.edu/

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Getty-J-Paul.html

Andy Razaf,1895-Feb3 ,1973 Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, African-American musical lyricist and a major influence in Black theater during the 1920s.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/andy-razaf-prolific-black-lyricist-finally-recognized-hall-fame

Betty Smith  (1896 – 01/17/1972)  US writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/betty-smith/

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10522249

David McCord  (1897 – 04/13/1997)  US writer

http://poetryadvocates.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/poet-of-the-week-david-mccord/
Kermit Bloomgarden 1904 – 76 Broadway producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=14214

Lew Grade  (12/15/1906 – 12/12/1998)  Ukrainian producer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333528/

John Glassco (1909-81 ) Can poet ,translator  

http://www.nybooks.com/books/authors/john-glassco/

http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol13/burnett.htm

Muriel Rukeyser  (1913 – 02/12/1980)  US writer / poet(1977 Shelley Memorial Award)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/muriel-rukeyser
 Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel] 1918-61  Brooklyn NY, actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001996/

Albert James "Alan" Freed (1921 – January 20, 1965), Moondog, /American disc-jockey    promoted rock and roll. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.

http://rockhall.com/inductees/alan-freed/

Freeman Dyson  (12/15/1923 – )  English physicist

http://www.sns.ias.edu/~dyson/
Evald Schorm , 1931 -88  Czechoslovakia, director (Courage for Every Day)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774880/

Edna O'Brien  (1930[32?] – )  Irish writer (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/edna-obrien/

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eobrien.htm
Tim Conway , 1933 -  American comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176792/
John [Thomas] Sladek 1937 -2000  US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/john-sladek/

Donald Goines (1937-.1974) aka Al C. Clark, African American novelist known for grim novels about drug users and prostitutes  

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/donald-goines/

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goines.htm

Alex Cox  (1954 – )  English actor, director, writer "Repo Man"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007182/

Passed:

December 15

Izaak Walton  (08/09/1593 –1683)  English writer (Compleat Angler)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/iwalton.htm

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham  (11/17/1815 –1864)  US social reformer

http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00216.html

Sitting Bull (??/??/1831 –1890)  US native( Hunkpapa-Sioux) chief

http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.html

Fats Thomas Wright Waller  (05/21/1904 –1943)  US jazz pianist, singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/fats-waller-p7764

Alton Glenn Miller , March 1, 1904 -1944   US band leader/jazz composer

http://www.tuxjunction.net/glennmiller.htm

Agnes Repplier  (04/01/1858 –1950)  US writer - essayist

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16722/16722-h/16722-h.htm

James Eric Drummond , August17,1876 –1951  Earl of Perth. Scottish representative peer, British diplomat and 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33)

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/112.4/pedersen.html

Charles Laughton  (07/01/1899 –1962)  English actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001452/

Walt Disney  (12/05/1901 –1966)  US filmmaker- animator

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370/
Harry Tobias 11 September 1895, -1994 American songwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864874/

No Regrets Lyrics

Harry Tobias / ingraham

No regrets

Although our love affair has gone astray

No regrets

I know I’ll always care though you’re away

So now our happy romance ended suddenly

Still in my heart you’ll be forever mine

No regrets

Because somebody new looks good to you

No regrets

Sweetheart no matter what you say or do

I know our love will linger

When the other love forgets

So I say goodbye with no regrets

No regrets

Because somebody new looks good to you

No regrets

Sweetheart no matter what you say or do

I know our love will linger

When the other love forgets

So I say goodbye with no regrets

Henry Phelps Brown , 10 February 1906 - 1994 Brit. historian/economist

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-professor-sir-henry-phelps-brown-1388216.html

William Proxmire  (11/11/1915 –2005)  US Senator (WI)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKproxmire.htm

Diane Middlebrook  (04/16/1939 –2007) US writer
http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/

http://www.nndb.com/people/147/000165649/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1573014/Diane-Middlebrook.html

Oral Roberts  (01/24/1918 –/2009)  US televangelist

http://www.ondoctrine.com/10robero.htm

Sites:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/12/09/letters_to_the_editor_the_best_dismissive_replies.html

http://www.beatdom.com/?p=768

http://atlengthmag.com/

http://bostonreview.net/BR30.2/sampler.php

http://www.awpwriter.org/

http://www.nybg.org/

http://straffordcommunitycalendar.com/

http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.21/what-is-that-dead-deer-thinking-about-and-why-is-he-hanging-there?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email

Bonus Poem:

            Semi-Literate

Once I had no sense of the alphabet's
Song, of its long train that wound along
The top of the chalkboard in the schoolroom.

I was anxious about little pairs of letters
That seemed to hold hands and go off into
The woods together: c and d; e and...

F(that’s right!); h and I (hi!); j and k.
And then there was the caterpillar of
l-m-n-o-p. What could that be?

I was sure it meant something, something
Important, but I’ve never met one yet.
Q-r-s was curious, that was certain,

T-u-v I liked because it reminded
Me of a little cabin by a lake
Where waves crashed on rocks all night. W.

Was that only one letter? One piece
Of the alphabet? Or did it come apart
To make another u and v? X, oh

Yes—that one made sense, but Y didn’t
Sound the way it looked, and when you asked
"Why?" that wasn’t it, but z was something

I could love: a little striped horse, gazing
Out the window, longing to go home.

                                                  by Joyce Sutphen

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2000/11/10