Jan. 15

Events:

Jan. 1 8 3^rd Wednesday of the month - 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord – Special All open mic hosted by Don Kimball (prisdon.comcast.net)

Jan. 1 9 Correction- SNAFU- Wrong feature listed by me… 3rd Thursday of the month – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Effingham - Writers' Night –Correct  Features Jane Wilcox Hively and Jonathan Hively followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us , 539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com

Jan. 1 9 Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)

Jan. 1 9 3rd Thursday of the month - 7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Featured Readers: Mark Adams, Tara Sullivan, John McVeigh,   and Kate Leigh Accompanied by The Larry Simon   Ensemble-  Larry Simon-Guitar, Scip Gallant-Keys, Cynthia   Chatis-Flute  Mike Barron & Frank Laurino-percussion, Chris   Stambaugh-Bass(followed by the open   mic with Tammi Truax)  (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

Jan. 21 Jaffrey Correction-  Omitted from “Event calander; Third Saturday of every month. Pot luck at 7pm, poetry open mic at 8pm, followed by a feature poet. $3 at the door MindFull Books 29 Main Street Jaffrey NH Audio Graffiti Poetry Series http://www.facebook.com/audiograffitipoetry#!/audiograffitipoetry?sk=wall

Born:

Jan 15

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere (1622 – 02/17/1673) French satirical dramatist actor and playwright

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

http://www.online-literature.com/moliere/

Dr. John Aikin, (1747-1822) English doctor and writer

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33222

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?144305

Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798-1854  Irish story teller (Fairy legends)

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL112772A/Croker_Thomas_Crofton

Marjory Fleming, (1803 - 1811) Scottish writer and poet

http://books.google.com/books/about/Marjory_s_book.html?id=eYAfAAAACAAJ

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/biography-of-scottish-child-prodigy-marjory-fleming-part-1.htm

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  (1809 – 01/19/1865)  French writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSproudhon.htm

Mikhail Evgrafovich [Yevgrafovich] Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) Russian novelist and satirist

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mikhail-Saltykov-Shchedrin/133089306730883

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437.html
Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) Romanian poet

http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poeti_tr/eminescu_eng.php

Mazo de la Roche 1871-1961 Canadian author

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

Leadbelly (1888-1949) [Huddie Ledbetter] American blues singer "King of The Twelve-String Guitar,"

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

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/leadbelly-p415

COTTON FIELDS

When I was a little bitty baby                                                     

My mama used to rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home

Chorus

Well when those cotton balls get rotten

You can't pick very much cotton                                                     

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana                                                     

In them old cotton fields back home

WRITERS: H. LEDBETTER, M. ASCH   Transcribed by Eddie Grove insideoutband.yahoo.com

Osip(Emilevich Mandelstam 1891- 1938 Russian poet and essayist

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

Ivor Novello (01/15/1893 – 03/06/1951)  US -Welsh composer, singer and actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637040/

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=6484

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/448907/
Xu Zhimo, (1897 – 1931) Chinese poet

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111522/english/peom.htm

Goodman Ace  (1899 – 03/25/1982)  US humorist
http://www.radiohof.org/comedy/goodjane.html

Aristotle Onassis  (1906 – 03/15/1975) Greek shipping giant
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/aristotle-onassis.html

Edward Teller  (1908 – 09/09/2003)  US scientist

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tel0bio-1

Lloyd Bridges  (1913 – 03/10/1998) US actor (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000978/

Etty Hillesum  (1914 – 11/30/1943)  Dutch lawyer, writer
http://www.ehoc.ugent.be/index.php?id=35&type=content

Ivor Cutler (1923-2006) Scottish poet, playwright, song- and story-writer, cartoonist, and story-teller

http://www.ivorcutler.org/

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 04/04/1968) US religious leader, civil rights activist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Ernest J. Gaines (1933 – ) African-American writer and educator novelist

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/gaines.html

Robert Silverberg, 1935 - US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=246

Frank Conroy (1936-2005) NYC native, writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10758585

Margaret O'Brien  (1937 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639684/

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet (1941 – 12/17/2010)  US musician, composer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p55418

Johari Amini [JohariCourts-Amini, JCourts-Amini, JohariC] 1948. African-American teacher of theater, director of several outstanding plays, an educator, a writer, and an administrator.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/johari-amini-theater-director-and-teacher

Passed:

Jan 15

Sir Philip Warwick, 1609- 1683English writer and politician

http://words.fromoldbooks.org/Chalmers-Biography/w/warwick-sir-philip.html

Edward Everett  (04/11/1794 –1865)  US educator

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=e000264

http://www.gdg.org/Links/everet.html

Fanny Kemble, 1809-1893 British actress and author

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2922.html

Matthew B Brady, ( 1822 -1896) US photographer (Civil War)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwbrady.html

Modest Tchaikovsky, ( 1850-1916 ) Russian writer

http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/en/people/tchaikovsky_modest.html

Yves Tanguy, ( Jan 5,1900 -1955 )   French/American sailor/surrealistic painter,

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25285

Daisy Ashford, 1881-1972 English child writer (The Young Visiters)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2446226/

Walter Wellesley Red Smith, Sept 15,1905-1982 American journalist-sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/red_smith.html

Sammy Cahn, June 18, 1913 –1993) American songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sammy-cahn-p61642

High Hopes

Next time your found, with your chin on the ground,

There a lot to be learned, so look around.

Just what makes that little old ant

Think he'll move that rubber tree plant?

Anyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant,

But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes,

He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

So any time your gettin' low, 'stead of lettin' go,

Just remember that ant -

Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.

When troubles call, and your back's to the wall,

There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall.

Once there was a silly old ram

Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam;

No one could make that ram scram - he kept buttin' that dam,

'Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes,

He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

So any time your feelin' bad,'stead of feelin' sad,

Just remember that ram -

Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.

(Instrumental Interlude - First Five Lines of Verse)

All problems just a toy balloon;

They'll be bursted soon - they're just bound to go pop.

Oops there goes another problem ker- 

Oops there goes another problem ker-

Oops there goes another problem kerplop, kerplop?

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+sinatra/high+hopes_20055241.html

Harry Nilsson (06/15/1941 –1994) US singer, songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/harry-nilsson-p5032

Harriet van Horne (05/17/1920 –1998) US writer

http://creativequotations.com/one/1604.htm
Doris Fisher, 1915-2003 American singer and songwriter

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117879581?refCatId=25

Olivia Goldsmith (??/??/1949 –2004) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326118/
Elizabeth Janeway (10/07/1913 –2005) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417511/
Hortense Calisher (12/20/1911 –2009) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130040/

Sites:

http://www.scca.com/

http://www.davidlangstudios.com/

http://xkcd.com/

http://cantornote.com/

http://portcityblue.com/

http://jazzmouth.org/

Bonus Poem:

The Black Unicorn

The black unicorn is greedy.
The black unicorn is impatient.
'The black unicorn was mistaken
for a shadow or symbol
and taken
through a cold country
where mist painted mockeries
of my fury.
It is not on her lap where the horn rests
but deep in her moonpit
growing.
The black unicorn is restless
the black unicorn is unrelenting
the black unicorn is not
free.

                                             by Audre Lorde

                                                             http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/audre_lorde/poems