Jan. 29

EVENT:Coming-Up;

Portland, Jan. 31: Port Veritas reading series. Blue, 650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com )

Births:

Emanuel Swedenborg 1688-1772 Swedish philosopher, theologian, chemist, anatomist, and mystic

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

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Political essayist

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/

William McKinley  (1843 – 09/14/1901)  US President (25)

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/william-mckinley/timeline.html

Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov - (1860- July 15, 1904)

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

Romain Rolland (1866-1945) French writer and 1915 Nobel winner

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

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1867 – 28 January 1928) Spanish realist novelist a screenwriter and occasional film director.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=647

John D.avison Rockefeller, Jr.1874 – 05/11/1960 US philanthropist http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jjr.html

W. C. Fields   (1880 – 12/25/1946)    US comic actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001211/

Leadbelly (1889 – 12/06/1949)US singer

http://www.deltablues.net/lead.html

Muna Lee (1895 – April 3, 1965) American author and poet

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10339083

Behind The House Is The Millet Plot

Behind the house is the millet plot,

And past the millet, the stile;

And then a hill where melilot

Grows with wild camomile.

There was a youth who bade me goodby

Where the hill rises to meet the sky.

I think my heart broke; but I have forgot

All but the smell of the white melilot.

http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/9887/

https://www.poets.org/m/dsp_poem.php?prmMID=16937

N. F. Norman Frederick Simpson (1919 –27 August 2011)  ) English writer

http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/5768/N-F-Simpson-(Norman-Frederick-Simpson).html

Paddy Chayefsky (1923 – 08/01/1981)US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154665/

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

Edward Abbey (1927 – 03/14/1989) US environmentalist novelist and essayist

http://www.abbeyweb.net/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edward_abbey.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10199939

Germaine Greer  (1939 – )  Australian feminist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/germainegreer

Sterling Plumpp , 1940. African-American poet, and educator.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/poet-stroke-luck-sterling-plumpp

http://www.aaregistry.org/poetry/view/black-ethics-sterling-d-plumpp

Oprah Winfrey   (1954 – )  US TV person

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001856/

http://www.oprah.com/pressroom/Oprah-Winfreys-Official-Biography

Grażyna Miller (1957 – Aug 17,2009) / Polish-Italian poet

http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous_poets/biography/1509/Grazyna_Miller

Jonny Lang (1981 – ) US singer, guitarist

http://www.jonnylang.com/

Passed:

January 29

Charles Sackville (1638-1706) 6th earl of Dorset English poet and courtier

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/285.html

George Granville (03/09/1666 –1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne English writer British lawyer, poet, playwright journalist, politician

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/george_granville/

Louis Racine, Nov 6,1692-1763 French poet

http://words.fromoldbooks.org/Chalmers-Biography/r/racine-louis.html

King George III   (06/04/1738 –1820)   British royalty

http://www.nndb.com/people/948/000068744/

Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837 poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1457

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

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/pushkin/pushkin_ind.html

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé  (30 October 1786 –1871) French Canadian lawyer, writer

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4802

Edward Lear (05/12/1812 –1888) English painter, writer -poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/200.html

http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/learwk.html

Sara Teasdale (08/08/1884 –1933) US writer -poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sara-teasdale

http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/sara-teasdale.html

William Butler Yeats (06/13/1865 –1939) English poet

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wbyeats.htm

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bio.html

William Allen White (02/10/1868 –1944) US writer

http://www.journalism.ku.edu/school/waw/

H. L. Mencken (09/12/1880 –1956) US writer

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mencken.htm

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken

Robert Frost (1963) USA Poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/129.html

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

Alan Ladd  (09/03/1913 –1964)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000042/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/

Jimmy Durante   (02/10/1893 –1980)  US pianist, singer, actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002051/

http://www.redhotjazz.com/jdurante.html

John Glassco (December 15, 1909 –1981) Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist.

http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/cpjrn/vol13/vol13index.htm

http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ynwt2s3BV7kC

Joseph Brodsky 1996. the American Poet Laureate in 1991

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/brodsky.htm

M. M. Mary Margaret ('Mollie')Kaye(21 August 1908 - 2004) British writer. The Far Pavilions (1978).

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8347794

Janet Frame (1924-2004) New Zealand novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer

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

Poets

If poets die young
they bequeath two thirds of their life to the critics
to graze and grow fat in
visionary grass.

If poets die in old age
they live their own lives
they write their own poems
they are their own might-have-been.

Young dead poets are prized comets.
The critics queue with their empty wagons ready for hitching.

Old living poets
stay faithfully camouflaged in their own sky.
It may even be forgotten they have been shining for so long.
The reminder comes upon their falling
extinguished into the earth.
The sky is empty, the sun and moon have gone away,
there are not enough street bulbs, glow-worms, fireflies to give light

and for a time it seems there will be no more stars.

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2011/02/poets-by-janet-frame.html

Edward Mackin Ralph Matthew McInerny   (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010)  Roman Catholic, American, philosopher, University professor, and prolific author  

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13606

Sites:

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-020.html

http://writingraw.com/index.html

http://thesixchix.com/

http://www.poetrynw.org/

http://www.abrahamverghese.com/biography.asp

http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/Tickets-Events/Events/2012/Rolex-24-At-Daytona/Weekend-Activities.aspx

Bonus Poem:

http://www.bartleby.com/292/48.html