NINE   EVENTS:   January 10, 7pm – 9pm Breaking New Grounds, Portsmouth, featuring: TBA ... Stone Pigeon  Two featured readers followed by an open mic.   January 10th at 6:30pm, Conway Public Library  the feature will be the Mountain Storytellers Guild. Poets, writers, acoustic musicians and storytellers of al ages are welcome -  and, of course, listeners, too! "Olga Morrill" <omorrill.conway.lib.nh.us   January 10, Henniker: Students in the New England College MFA program in poetry will each read or perform their original work. At 7:30 p.m., the Great Room, Simon Center, New England College (www.tygerburning.blogspot.com).   Jan 11 Newmarket; 7PM; Zion Hill Spoken Word Featuring JONATHAN STOKER!  with the ethereal flute of Cynthia Chatis  Stone Church Newmarket  Open Mic follows   Jan 11 Hampstead 7 p.m., Songs of Old New Hampshire,   Jeff Warner offers songs and stories from  the 18th and 19th centuries.    Contact: Louise Pryor, 329-5921  Hampstead Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Rd.   January 12  Exeter   Chris Elliott  & Tami Truax  After, open mike!   The Water Street Bookstore  125 Water Street  Exeter  778-9731   Jan. 13, Hampstead:  Poet Becky Dennison Sakellariou is featured reader at the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series.  The Series continues at BeanTowne Coffee House (www.beantownecoffee.com), 201 Rte 111, Hampstead.  The program opens with a reading by Hyla Brook poet Melissa Juchniewicz, beginning at 6:30pm and concludes with an Open Mic from 7:30-8:30pm. Free and open to the public.  For further information, email Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com.               BIRTHDAYS:   Jan 9   Thomas Warton the Younger (1728-1790; English poet ,author of the first history of English poetry,   And poet laureate of England   http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/346.html   Cassandra Austen, 1773 -1845  English watercolorist   http://becomingjane.blogspot.com/2007/07/biography-of-cassandra-austen.html   http://www.janeausten.co.uk/magazine/page.ihtml?pid=351&step=4   Catherine Parr Traill (1802–99),Eng/Canadian Author   http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6813/pg6813.html   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7287152   Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (1811 - 1856)   http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Beckett_Gilbert_Abbott_a.html   William Johnson  Cory (1823-1892)Brit.  Victorian Teacher / poet   http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/77.html   Thomas William Robertson (1829-1871) English comedic playwright   http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=8811   http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_William_Robertson   Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (1832 - 1900)   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8539598   http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005099   Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 – December 17, 1935) American poet.                                                       Tell Me Some Way Oh, you who love me not, tell me some way   Whereby I may forget you for a space;   Nay, clean forget you and your lovely face--   Yet well I know how vain this prayer I pray.   All weathers hold you. Can I make the May   Forbid her boughs blow white in every place?   Or rob June of her rose that comes apace?   Cheat of their charm the elder months and gray?   Aye, were you dead, you could not be forgot;   So sparse the bloom along the lanes would be;   Such sweetness out the briery hedges fled;   My tears would fall that you had loved me not;   And bitterer tears that you had gone from me;   Living you break my heart, so would you dead!   http://www.sonnets.org/reese.htm   http://theotherpages.org/poems/reese01.html   Henry B[lake] Fuller (1857-1929) US novelist   http://www.centerstagechicago.com/literature/whoswho/HenryBlakeFuller.html   Lascelles Abercrombie 1881-1938. English poet, playwright, and literary critic.   http://www.poemhunter.com/lascelles-abercrombie/   http://www.dymockpoets.co.uk/Abercrombie.htm   Hayyim [Chaim]Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) Israel's national poet   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bialik.htm   Arthur Baer   (1886 – 05/17/1969)    US writer   http://jn10.co.uk/quotes/quotes-by-arthur-baer.php   Giovanni Papini(1881-1956  Ital. Journalist, polemical critic, poet, and novelist,   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/papini.htm Karel Capek (1890-1938 ), Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist   http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/index.html   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capek.htm   Chic Young, 1901 -  cartoonist (Blondie)   http://www.lambiek.net/artists/y/young_c.htm   Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 04/14/1986)   French writer   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/simonedebeauvoir   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm   http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/index.htm   Judith Krantz, 1928 -  NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)   http://www.iblist.com/author10183.htm   Brian Friel,1929-), Ire playwright   http://www.eng.umu.se/lughnasa/brian.htm   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295486/   Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, 1931 -  US sci-fi author (Man of Earth)   http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/algis-budrys/   Anne Rivers Siddons, 1936 -  American writer   http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/anne-rivers-siddons/   Leon Richard Forrest 1937. African-American author. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/author-leon-forrest-writer-who-started-journalist   Joan Baez   (1941  )     US singer, songwriter   http://womenshistory.about.com/od/joanbaez/a/joan_baez.htm   Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (1944 - 2002)   http://www.artnet.com/artist/8516/ian-hornak.html\   Stephen Neale, 1958 - British philosopher   http://web.gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/faculty/neale/index.html   http://www.protosociology.de/Volumes/Volume23.html                 PASSED   Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle   (02/11/1657 –1757)   French writer   http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Fontenelle.html       Katherine Mansfield [ Beauchamp]  (10/14/1888 – 1923)  New Zealander writer   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kmansfi.htm                                                                    Camomile Tea       Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago, In the horrible cottage upon the Lee That he and I should be sitting so And sipping a cup of camomile tea. Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee. Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, The tap is dripping peacefully; The saucepan shadows on the wall Are black and round and plain to see.   http://www.poemhunter.com/katherine-mansfield/       Countee Cullen ((1903 - 1946)US Afro/Amer.Poet   http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/countee-cullen   http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/cullen.html   http://www.aaregistry.org/poetry/view/song-spite-myself-countee-cullen   http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cullen/life.htm       Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867) 1961   http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1946/balch-bio.html   Maurice Prather, American photographer 1926-2001   http://www.tipjar.com/dan/carnivalofsouls.htm   http://www.moviesfilmonline.com/es/movies/carnival-of-souls           SITES:       http://thepagename.blogspot.com/   http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/1218/1/RAEI_17_5.pdf   http://www.refresheverything.com/index/index   http://www.saic.edu/   http://jamesharrington.net/collections/9310   http://www.worcestershows.com/auto_show/index.html   http://www.wumb.org/home/index.php   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBkao_yyOI   http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110108/GJNEWS02/701089872/-1/CITIZEN           BONUS POEM:   Walls           FREE to all souls the hidden beauty calls,       The sea thrift dwelling on her spray-swept height,       The lofty rose, the low-grown aconite,       The gliding river and the stream that brawls       Down the sharp cliffs with constant breaks and falls—            5   All these are equal in the equal light—       All waters mirror the one Infinite.              God made a garden, it was men built walls;       But the wide sea from men is wholly freed;       Freely the great waves rise and storm and break,     10   Nor softlier go for any landlord's need,       Where rhythmic tides flow for no miser's sake       And none hath profit of the brown sea-weed,       But all things give themselves, yet none may take.               Eva Gore-Booth       http://www.bartleby.com/103/