Jan. 5

Events:

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

1st Thursday of the month – 6:30 p.m. – Mel Flanagan’s Irish Café and Pub, Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. 332-6357)

1st Thursday of the month – Portable Pantry , Rochester –Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the feature starts at 6:15 Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. (Pat O’Brien, 866-6034 cancelled due to illness

1st Thursday of the month - 7:00pm – Adelle’s Coffeehouse, Dover – Primal Tongue - Features followed by open mike prose (Josiah Eikelboom, 205-6192, jeikelboom.osiail.com)

A Update:

JANUARY 9th Conway Open Mic Night at the Conway Library is on MONDAY, JANUARY 9th - at 6:30 it's Open Floor for all poets, writers, acoustic musicians and storytellers. Then after a break for refreshments, Red and Lorraine Gallagher take the floor sharing originals and favorite covers with harmony and humor.  omorrill.conwaypubliclibrary.org

Born:

January 5

Count Miklós Zríny  1620-1664), Hungarian poet

http://husaria.us/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/CAVALRY_The_History_of_A_Fighting_Elite_650BC-AD1914.10371123.htm

Thomas Pringle, 1789-1834.Scot traveler and poet

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/pringle_thomas.htm

Andre Henri Constant van Hasselt, 1806 – 1 December 1874) was a Flemish /Belgian poet (La Belgium)

http://www.nndb.com/people/117/000101811/

http://www.archive.org/stream/liroumansdeclo01hass#page/n5/mode/2up

Rudolf Eucken 1846-1926 German philosopher, Nobel Prize literature 1908.

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

Khristo Botev (1848-1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary

Sharing the Spoils

We are brothers in spirit, you and I

Cherishing the same ideals,

And I believe there's nothing in this world

We'll have to regret, you and I.

Posterity will judge -

Did we good or did we evil,

But for now - hand in hand -

Let's move forward, our steps more sure!

Suffering and poverty in foreign land

Were our life companions,

But we shared them like brothers

And we'll share them again, we two...

We'll share choruses of rebuke, you and I

And suffer the mockery of fools -

We'll suffer - but we'll not groan

Beneath human torment of any kind.

And we'll not bow our heads

To passions and profane idols:

Our two mournful lyres

Have already told what's in our hearts.

So forward now, with spirit and ideals

To the final sharing of the spoils:

To fulfill our sacred pledge -

Toward death brother, let's go toward death!

Translated by © Thomas Butler. All rights reserved!

http://www.slovo.bg/showauthor.php3?ID=2&LangID=2

http://www.poemhunter.com/khristo-botev/

George Washington Carver   (1864 – 01/05/1903)   US agricultural chemist 

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/30.html
Konrad Adenauer  (1876 – 04/19/1967)  Chancellor, German Republic
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERadenauerK.htm

Herbert Bayard Swope  (1882 – 06/20/1958)  US journalist

http://garylawrance.blogspot.com/2011/04/herbert-bayard-swope-of-lands-end.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Herbert-Bayard-Swope/109553272403840

http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com/content/press-politics-and-poker-howard-bayard-swope-4270

Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940 ) Brit poet

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwolfe.htm

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2001/04/grey-squirrel-humbert-wolfe.html

Elizabeth Cotten, (1895 – June 29,1987) American musician

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/elizabeth-cotten-p1951

Federico García Lorca 1898-1936 Spanish poet and dramatist, a talented artist
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fglorca.htm

Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, 1902 -89 English author (Cold Comfort Farm)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/stella-gibbons/

Jean-Pierre Aumont  (1911 – 01/30/2001)  French actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001922/

Friedrich Durrenmatt  (1921 – 12/14/1990)  Swiss writer- playwright and novelist

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

Sam Samuel Cornelius Phillips, (1923 - July 30, 2003)American music businessman, record executive, record producer and DJproducer/musician/record founder (Sun)

http://www.sunstudio.com/

W.[illiam]D.[ewitt] Snodgrass(1926- January 13,2009), USA “confessional’ poet Pulitzer Prize in 1959

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/15

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  (1928 – 04/04/1979)  Pakistani statesman

http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P019

Alvin Ailey  (1931 – 12/01/1989)  US dancer, choreographer
http://www.alvinailey.org/calendar

http://www.texas-on-line.com/graphic/alvinailey.htm

Robert Duvall  (1931 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000380/

Umberto Eco  (1932 – )   Italian writer -novelist and critic

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

http://www.transparencynow.com/eco.htm

Chuck Noll  (01/05/1932 – )  US football coach
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?PLAYER_ID=166

Florence King  (01/05/1936 – )  US writer

http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/florence-king.html
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-  ) [James T. Ngugi] , Kenyan novelist, dramatist, and critic

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

Michael O'Donoghue (1940 – 11/08/1994) US writer, actor (SNL)

http://workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640874/

Diane Keaton  (1946 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000473/

Passed:

January 5

James Merrick, 1720–1769) was an English poet and scholar

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=34579

Alexander Smith (Dec 31,1830-67) Scottish poet

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18135

Charles Tompson, June 26,1806/7 -1883  first Australian published poet

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tompson-charles-2738

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/tompson-charles

http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-tompson/poems/

Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) Eng Writer

http://www.poemhunter.com/humbert-wolfe/biography/

George Washington Carver    01/05/1864 –1903)   US agricultural chemist
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=179

Calvin Coolidge   (07/04/1872 –1933)   US President (30)

http://millercenter.org/president/coolidge

Rogers Hornsby   (04/27/1896 –1963)   US baseball player

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=hornsro01

Max Born   (12/11/1882 –1970)   German physicist
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-bio.html

Charles Mingus   (04/22/1922 –1979)   US bassist, composer

http://mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/index.html

Margaret Laurence  (07/18/1926 –1987)  Canadian writer

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/margaret-laurence

"Tip" O’Neill   (12/09/1912 –1994)   US house speaker
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642328/bio

Lincoln Kirstein   (05/04/1907 –1996)    US impresario

http://www.lincolnkirstein.org/

http://www.lincolnkirstein.org/bibliography?cat_id=2

Sonny Bono   (02/16/1935 –1998)  US singer, congressman

http://www.nndb.com/people/053/000031957/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095122/

Needles and Pins

I saw her today, I saw her face, it was a face I loved, and I knew
I had to run away, and get down on my knees and pray that they'd go away
But still they'd begin (uh), needles and pins (uh)
Because of all my pride, the tears I gotta hide

Hey I thought I was smart, I'd won her heart
Didn't think I'd do, but now I see
She's worse to him than me, let her go ahead
Take his love instead, and one day she will see
Just how to say please, and get down on her knees
Hey that's how it begins (uh), she'll feel those needles and pins
A-hurtin' her, a-hurtin' her

Why can't I stop and tell myself I'm wrong, I'm wrong, so wrong
Why can't I stand up and tell myself I'm strong

Because I saw her today, I saw her face, it was a face I loved, and I knew
I had to run away, and get down on my knees and pray that they'd go away
But still they'd begin (uh), needles and pins (uh)
Because of all my pride, the tears I gotta hide

Oh needles and pins (uh), needles and pins (uh), needles and pins (uh)

                                                                       BONO, SONNY/NITZSCHE, JACK

Jean Kerr   (07/10/1923 –2003)   US writer, humorist
http://electriccityr.com/2008/07/jean-collins-kerr/

Danny Sugerman   (10/11/1954 –2005)   US writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10303789

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837397/

Chih Ree Sun, 1923- 2007 Chinese-American physicist and poet

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chih-Ree-Sun/106063192757370

Sites:

http://www.fiatusa.com/en/gaq/index.html?vehicle=&zip=&year=&dealer_id=

http://www.thedailyhaiku.com/

http://www.thewildgeese.com/

http://www.shaker.lib.me.us/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38416/38416-h/38416-h.htm#Page_234

http://www.mjhnyc.org/findex.html

Bonus Poem:

A Winter Ride

Who shall declare the joy of the running!
Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight!
Springing and spurning the tufts of wild heather,
Sweeping, wide-winged, through the blue dome of light.
Everything mortal has moments immortal,
Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.
So with the stretch of the white road before me,
Shining snowcrystals rainbowed by the sun,
Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

                                                                                                                                     by Amy Lowell