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Jan. 23

Events:

January 23 Conway . 6:30pm - Mt. Storyteller's Guild Meeting http://conwaypubliclibrary.org/

Soon…Coming to a Neighborhood near YOU…

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 mailto: 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 fro the Poetry Society of NH. All are welcome mailto:poetrysocietyofnh.gmail.com

 

Born:

January 23

John Barclay 1582 – Aug 15,1621, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Barclay,_John_(Scottish_satirist)
Joseph Hewes 1730 - November 10, 1779 US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)

http://goldeneaglesofamerica.com/signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-pt-4/signer-joseph-hewes/

John Hancock (1737 – 10/08/1793) US founding father

http://www.johnhancock.org/

Friedrich von Matthison 1761 -1831  German poet (Adelaide)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.gedichte.com/gedichte/Friedrich_von_Matthisson/Zuruf&ei=Cj8dT6e8Nerf0QGYsbnGCw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CGcQ7gEwCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfriedrich%2Bvon%2Bmatthisson%2Bzuruf%26hl%3Den%26qscrl%3D1%26nord%3D1%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422US456%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D681%26prmd%3Dimvns

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://gedichte.xbib.de/Matthisson_gedicht_Zuruf.htm&ei=Cj8dT6e8Nerf0QGYsbnGCw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ7gEwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfriedrich%2Bvon%2Bmatthisson%2Bzuruf%26hl%3Den%26qscrl%3D1%26nord%3D1%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422US456%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D681%26prmd%3Dimvns

Stendahl [Marie Henri Beyle], 1783-1842  France, writer (Le Rouge et Le Noir)

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

http://www.grtbooks.com/stendhal.asp?idx=0&yr=1783

Charles Harpur (1813-68) Australian poet

The End of the Book

My work is finished that has been to me
My only solace for this many a day.
But whether it in other company
May so beguile the time and hue the ray
Of loneliness and thought, I dare not say;
Nor whether with the future it shall be
A thing of note, nor whether presently
’Tis doomed to waste like a thin mist away.
Yet whatsoever be its worldly lot,
I know that, hive-like, it with love is stored,
And that through all its pages I have not
Written one wilfully misleading word,
Or traced one feeling that my heart ignored—
One line that truth has counselled me to blot.

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

http://www.bartleby.com/224/1201.html

Edouard Manet (1831– 04/30/1883) French artist / Impressionist painter (Déjeuner sur L'Herbe)

http://www.manetedouard.org/
John Randolph Chambliss Jr (1833 -1864 ) Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10845

Katherine Tynan (1861-2 April 1931) Irish-born writer-  novels and poetry)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=7598

Herbert David Croly 1869 –may 17,1930 US author (Promise of American Life)

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_promise_of_American_life.html?id=3BASAAAAYAAJ
Oton Zupancic 1878 – June 11, 1949) Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom) translator and playwright

http://poezija.pksola.si/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38:oton-upani&catid=38:z&Itemid=80

Humphrey Bogart (1899– 01/14/1957) US actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/

Anya Seton (1904 - November 8, 1990) Ann Seton, American author of historical romances.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7316283

Louis Zukofsky (1904 May12, 1978) American poet; one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets)

http://jacketmagazine.com/30/index.shtml

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/zukofsky.htm

Konstanty I Galczynski 1905-Dec 6 ,1953  Polish poet (Zielona Ges)

http://www.kigalczynski.pl/english/zycie/
Hediki Yukawa 1907 -81  Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1949/yukawa-bio.html
Hubert Nicholson 1908 -66  Eng poet/novelist

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-hubert-nicholson-1325267.html

Sir William Arthur Lewis 1915-91. Black Caribbean economist, educator and Nobel Prize winner.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/caribbean-patriot-sir-william-arthur-lewis

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1979/lewis-autobio.html
Potter Stewart 1915 - 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Michigan, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)

http://www.oyez.org/justices/potter_stewart/
Gertrude Belle Elion 1918 -99 New York City NY, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html

Ernie Kovacs (1919– 01/13/1962) US TV pioneer comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468237/
Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr 1923-96  US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars)

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

Jeanne Moreau (1928 – ) French actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603402/
John Polanyi 1929-  Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
http://www.utoronto.ca/jpolanyi/

Derek Walcott (1930) Afro-Caribbean poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992) playwright and educator

http://www.oprah.com/blogs/Derek-Poem

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/derek-walcott-poet-extraordinaire

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/walcott.htm
Johnny Russell 1940-July 3,2001  country singer/songwriter
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-russell-p9577

Passed:

January 23

William Baffin (  1584-1622)  British explorer

http://www.nndb.com/people/173/000100870/
Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis 1592-1639  Peruvian poet, burned at stake

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13664-silva-francisco-maldonado-de
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla 1607-1648  Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/zrojas.htm

Giambattista Vico (06/23/1668–1744) Italian philosopher

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/
Edward Rutledge ( 1749 -1800)  US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)

http://goldeneaglesofamerica.com/signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-2/signer-edward-rutledge/
George Clymer (1739  -1813)  US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
http://goldeneaglesofamerica.com/signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence/signer-george-clymer/

Thomas Love Peacock (10/18/1785–1866) English writer –novelist & poet / Victorian Scholar

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/253.html

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

http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/

Charles Kingsley  (12 June 1819-1875) Eng priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and Victorian novelist Westward Ho!),

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/187.html

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

IN AN ILLUMINATED MISSAL

I would have loved: there are no mates in heaven;
I would be great: there is no pride in heaven;
I would have sung, as doth the nightingale
The summer’s night beneath the moonè pale,
But Saintès hymnes alone in heaven prevail.
My love, my song, my skill, my high intent,
Have I within this seely book y-pent:
And all that beauty which from every part
I treasured still alway within mine heart,
Whether of form or face angelical,
Or herb or flower, or lofty cathedral,
Upon these sheets below doth lie y-spred,
In quaint devices deftly blazonèd.
Lord, in this tome to thee I sanctify
The sinful fruits of worldly fantasy.

1839.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11064/11064-h/11064-h.htm

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kingsley/ckbio.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=344

Phillips Brooks (12/13/1835–1893) US clergyman

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/r/o/brooks_p.htm
José Zorrilla y Moral 1817-1893   Spanish poet (Granada)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jos%C3%A9-Zorrilla-y-Moral/105549219479578
 Edward Alexander MacDowell December 18, 1860 -1908) American composer and pianist of the Romantic period (Indian Suite)

http://kids.ochristian.com/Biographies-for-Children/Edward-Alexander-Macdowell.shtml

Anna Pavlova (01/03/1885–1931) Russian dancer

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ni-Pe/Pavlova-Anna.html

Marie Prevost (11/08/1898 –1937) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696679/

Alexander Woollcott (01/19/1887–1943) US writer/ critic

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941233/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexander_woollcott.html

Pierre Bonnard (10/03/1867–1947) French artist - painter/illustrator

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bonnard_pierre.html
Paul Robeson (April 9,1898   -1976) US athlete/lawyer/singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-robeson-p3146
Terry Kath Jan 31,1946-1978 rock guitarist (Chicago)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/terry-kath-p92682

Salvador Dali (05/11/1904–1989) Spanish surrealist painter

http://thedali.org/history/biography.html

Northrop Frye (07/14/1912–1991) Canadian writer

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/frye.html

John Keith Laumer (June 9, 1925(1925-06-09) –1993(1993-01-23))American science fiction author.

http://www.baen.com/library/klaumer.htm

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?211
Norman MacCaig ( 1910 -1996) Scot poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/norman-maccaig

http://poemsandprose.blog.co.uk/2006/01/21/more_norman_maccaig~491491/
Richard Berry ( April 11,1935 -1997) US lyricist (Louie Louie)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-berry-p15786

Nell Carter (09/13/1944–2003) US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141846/

Captain Kangaroo (06/27/1927–2004) US entertainer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444828/

Helmut Newton (10/31/1920–2004 German-Australian photographer

http://www.ocaiw.com/galleria_fotografi/index.php?author=newton

Johnny Carson (10/23/1925–2005) US TV host , Tonight Show

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001992/

Jack LaLanne (09/26/1914–2011) US exercise maven

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/

 

 

Sites:

http://www.wildnh.com/Shop/shop_books.htm

http://www.mtnstreamsmusic.com/

http://www.kicboston.com/

http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-features-eric-sloane-s-america.html

http://bestpoemjournal.com/

http://www.rebuildthedream.com/

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides

 

History:

January 23

1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri

http://newmadridmuseum.com/

http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/

 

BONUS POEM:

Words from Cold Mountain

                             10

If there’s something good, delight!

Seize the moment while it flies!

Though life can last a hundred years,

Who’s seen their thirty thousand days?

Just an instant then you’re gone.

Why sit whining over things?

When you’ve read the Classics through,

You’ll know quite enough of death.

 

Words from Cold Mountain Twenty-Seven Poems by Han-shan Translated by A. S. Kline © 2006 All Rights Reserved.

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Chinese/HanShan.htm