Jan. 7

Events:  Coming-Up

January 27, 2012 Portsmouth, NH  6:30am until 9:00pm ; New Hampshire's best performance poets will compete for a $200 cash prize. Raffles and donations will help put on the first annual Black History Month celebration of local black contemporary poetry .At the Blue Mermaid Restaurant ;

Host: Slam Free or Die poetry slam founder, Mark Palos
Also in a association with Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program and the Seacoast African American Cultural Center

Competing Poets so far...Cara Chanoine  ,Anthony Febo, Beau Williams, Brandon Amico, Ryan McLellan, Chris Clauss, Wil Gibson, Sam Teitel, Matt Gallant, Mckendy Fis-Aime, Matthew Richards, Heidi Therrien  . http://bluemermaid.com/index.asp  http://saacc-nh.org/index.html

http://www.pplp.org/index.htm

January 28, 2012, Cape Elizabeth, ME: Local Writers at the Local Buzz 4-5 pm
Readings by John-Michael Albert, Poetry - Jane DiMillo, Nonfiction - Morgan Callan Rogers, Fiction. The Local Buzz: 327 Ocean House Rd. (at Pond Cove IGA Shopping Ctr), Cape Elizabeth, ME. Come hear local writers reading from their work while enjoying custom blended teas & coffees or a glass of wine, and delicious, locally-sourced food. More information at http://www.capelocalbuzz.com.

1/28		11AM		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Poetry Society of NH Members Open mic mail to: poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com
1/28		Noon		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Maudelle Driskell - director of the Frost Place in Franconia -will read for the Poetry Society of NH. All are welcome mail to: poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com

February 4, 2012, Deerfield, NH: Writing with Women 10 am - 4 pm
Interested in a day of creative writing at a delightful 1740's B&B? Come to Wild Orchard Guest Farm in Deerfield on February 4^th from 10 am to 4 pm. Bring your own lunch and/or share a cup of my Mexican soup plus conversation and whatever else comes to mind. The afternoon is ours to enjoy writing. A comfortable living room and dining room welcomes up to a dozen women. Coffee and tea will be available. Cost is $10 per person on arrival for the use of the Farm. I look forward to hearing from you and will confirm via email and/or phone. Peace, Lindsey Coombs lindseycoombs.gmail.com cell 303-2700
www.wildorchardguestfarm.com Molly Grant, proprietor. Directions: Rt 107 just past the Lazy Lion Café (which is opens at 10:30) then Right on Church Rd and immediately Left onto Candia Rd for 1 mile where it then turns right and becomes a dirt road. Go barely a tenth of a mile to the Farm. Bring your camera :)

February 16, Plymouth,NH : The Eagle Pond Author's Series will feature Simon Armitage, who has received wide acclaim for his translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reserve free tickets by calling (603) 535-2874. At 7 p.m., Smith Recital Hall, Plymouth State University (www.silver.plymouth.edu).

Born:

From jan 6,  forgotten poet page:

poet Idris Davies (1905-53) was born Jan 6, in Rhymney, Monmouthshire.

BELLS OF RHYMNEY

Oh what will you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney.
Is there hope for the future?
Cry the brown bells of Merthyr.
Who made the mine owner?
Say the black bells of Rhondda.
And who robbed the miner?
Cry the grim bells of Blaina.

They will plunder will-nilly,
Cry the bells of Caerphilly.
They have fangs, they have teeth,
Shout the loud bells of Neath.
Even God is uneasy,
Say the moist bells of Swansea.
And what will you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney.

Throw the vandals in court,
Say the bells of Newport.
All will be well if, if, if,
Cry the green bells of Cardiff.
Why so worried, sisters why?
Sang the silver bells of Wye.
And what will you give me?
Say the sad bells of Rhymney?

Words from "Gwalia Deserta" by Idris Davies
Music by Pete Seeger
© 1959 & 1964 Ludlow Music, Inc.

http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/chronicle/english/diggingdeeper/famousfaces/idrisdavies.htm

*-fromTInLit

January 7

James Harrington  (1611-09/11/1677)  English philosopher / political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)

http://www.constitution.org/jh/oceana.htm
Daniel Tyler 1799 -1882  Brigadier General (Union volunteers),

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8065984

Millard Fillmore  (1800 – 03/08/1874)  US President (13)

http://www.potus.com/mfillmore.html

Austin Phelps  (1820 – 10/13/1890)  US educator, clergy

http://phelpsfamilyhistory.com/bios/austin_phelps.asp
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell 1821-1891 Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9661

St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) 1844 – 16 April 1879) miller's daughter born in Lourdes. From 11 February to 16 July 1858, she reported 18 apparitions of "a small young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at a specific site in Lourdes.   

https://www.google.com/search?q=st+bernadette+of+lourdes&hl=en&rlz=1T4RNUR_enUS422US456&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PigIT-TQFcXd0QGW5qWRAg&ved=0CFsQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=681

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda /Jehuda [Perelmann], 1858 – 16 December 1922) Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor. He was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.

http://www.jewishagency.org/jewishagency/english/jewish+education

Adolph Zukor 1873-June 10,1976 Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958532/

Charles Peguy  (1873 – 09/05/1914)  French philosopher / poet, essayist -Catholic writer (God Speaks)

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

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0063.html

http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-peguy/

http://allpoetry.com/Charles_Peguy

http://hisquietvoicelivingbythenewmanna.blogspot.com/2010/04/charles-peguys-poetry.html

Zora Neale Hurston  (1891 – 01/28/1960)  US writer

http://zoranealehurston.com/

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hurston.html

http://www.gradesaver.com/author/zora-neale-hurston/

F. Orlin Tremaine (1899 - October 22, 1956) was an American science fiction editor;

the second editor of Astounding Science Fiction in 1933.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1089

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26941/26941-h/26941-h.htm

Alan William Napier-Clavering (1903 – August 8, 1988) English actor, Alfred-Batman)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6399880

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1910-84) Pakistani poet and journalist

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

Highway

		A despondent highway is stretched, its eyes set on the far horizon On the cold dirt of its bosom, its grayish beauty spread As if some saddened woman in her lonely abode, lost in thought. In contemplation of union with her Beloved every pore sore, limbs limp with exhaustion

http://www.poemhunter.com/faiz-ahmed-faiz/poems/

Butterfly [Thelma] McQueen  (1911 – 12/22/1995)  US actor (Prissy-Gone With the Wind)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574335/bio
Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams 1912-September 29, 1988) American cartoonist  (New Yorker, Addams Family)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011623/

http://westfieldnj.com/addams/

Robert Duncan  1919 – February 3, 1988) American poet

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/duncan/duncan.htm

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/186

http://jacketmagazine.com/29/palmer-duncan.html

http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_duncan/poems

Childhood’s Retreat

It’s in the perilous boughs of the tree
out of blue sky the wind
sings loudest surrounding me.

And solitude, a wild solitude
’s reveald, fearfully, high I’d climb
into the shaking uncertainties,

part out of longing, part daring my self,
part to see that
widening of the world, part

to find my own, my secret
hiding sense and place, where from afar
all voices and scenes come back

—the barking of a dog, autumnal burnings,
far calls, close calls— the boy I was
calls out to me
here the man where I am “Look!

I’ve been where you
most fear to be.”


http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-duncan/poems/

Gerald Malcolm Durrell (1925-01/30/1995)  Brit naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)

http://www.durrell.org/

http://www.durrell.org/About/

William Peter Blatty (1928 -) American screenwiter and novelist  (The Exorcist)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/blatty.htm
Elliot Kastner 1933- 2010  US producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440990/

Leona Williams (1943 - ) singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues)

http://www.allmusic.com/search/artist/leona+williams
Tony Conigliaro 1945 -1990  Massachusetts, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)

http://www.nndb.com/people/656/000162170/

Jann S. Wenner  (1946 – )  US writer, editor, "Rolling Stone" founder / publisher

http://www.jannswenner.com/
Kenny Loggins 1948 -  US, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kenny-loggins-p4778

House at Pooh Corner

Christopher Robin and I walked along
Under branches lit up by the moon
Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore
As our days disappeared all too soon
But I wandered much further today than I should
And I can't find my way to the three-acre wood

So help me if you can I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
And Pooh

Winnie The Pooh doesn't know what to do
Got a hunny jar stuck on his nose
He came to me asking help and advice
And from here no one knows where he goes
So I sent him to ask of the Owl if he's there
How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear

So help me if you can I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
Back to the ways of Christopher Robin
Back to the days of Pooh

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/nitty-gritty-dirt-band/house-at-pooh-corner-10164.html

Nicholson Baker (1957) contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/sep/19/nicholson-baker-interview

http://www.randomhouse.com/author/1229/nicholson-baker

Katie [Katherine], Couric  (1957 – )  US telejournalist  / TV news host(Today,CBS Evening News)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-couric

Nicolas Kim Coppola Cage  (1964 – )  US actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/

Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (0107 -66 – July 16, 1999) model/wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5948

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1999/09/bessette199909

Passed:

January 7

Catherine of Aragon (  Dec 16,1485-1536) 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII

http://crazyhorsesghost.hubpages.com/hub/The_Six_Wifes_of_King_Henry_VIII

The Six Wives of Henry the Eight

Divorced, beheaded died;

Divorced beheaded survived

{poem refers to their fates.}

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/six_wives_henry_viii.htm

Allan Ramsay Sr.  (1686 - 1758) Scottish merchant/poet (Gentle Shepherd)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/273.html

John Hookham Frere (1769-1846) Eng.Romantic Period poet, scholar Diplomatist

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/128.html

Henry Arthur Jones (09/19/1851 –1929)  English writer /playwright (Silver King),

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/jones001.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428219/
Nikola Tesla  (07/09 (or 07/10)/1856 –1943) Yugoslavian /Serbian-US inventor -physicist (tesla motor)

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/tesla.html

John Allyn Berryman (October 25, 1914 –, 1972) American poet and scholar,  (Imaginary Jew)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-berryman

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/berryman/berryman.htm

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-berryman/

William Feather  (08/25/1889 –1981)  US writer

http://tedlandphairsamerica.blogspot.com/2008/10/featherisms.html
Juan Rulfo ( May 16,1917;  -1986) Mex  writer screenwriter

http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/257-the-few-the-proud-the-work-of-juan-rulfo-1917%E2%80%931986

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exrulbur.html

Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), Lawrence Treat, American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals.

http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Treat/e/B001H6WWMK

Sites:

http://thecog.com/index.php

http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/

http://solar-aid.org/

http://www.eness.com/?r=News

History:

1450 In Scotland, the University of Glasgow was founded.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/history/

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707)

http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/dick-weber.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10478031

http://www.dickwebervideo.com/

http://www.actionbowlers.com/action/dick-weber.htm

Bonus Poem:

                      GARAGE SALE     

I sold her bed for a song.
A song of yearning like an orphan’s.
Or the one knives carve into bread.

But the un-broken bread
song too. For the song that rivers
sing to the ferryman’s oars. With

that dread in it.
For a threadbare tune: garroted,
chest-choked, cheap. A sparrow’s,

beggar’s, a foghorn’s call.
For the kind of song only morning
can slap on love-stained sheets —

that’s what I sold my mother’s
bed for. The one she died in. Sold it
for a song.

                                                                                                        by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/laure-anne_bosselaar/poems