26 EVENTS: – 7 pm – Bridge Café, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here)   BIRTHDAYS:   Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (Click here - 1463) Click here Sir James Ware, antiquary, 1591 Click here Dr. William Derham, natural philosopher, 1657, Click here Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Click here -  Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) Click here Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (Click here - 1758) Click here William Cowper, (1731-1800), England, pre-romantic poet   My Soul is Sad and much Dismayed My soul is sad and much dismayed; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, My heav’nly pilgrimage oppose! See, from the over-burning lake How like a smoky cloud they rise! With horrid blasts my soul they shake, With storms of blasphemies and lies. Their fiery arrows reach the mark, My throbbing heart with anguish tear; Each lights upon a kindred spark, And finds abundant fuel there. I hate the thought that wrongs the Lord; O, I would drive it from my breast, With Thy own sharp two-edged sword, Far as the east is from the west! Come then, and chase the cruel host, Heal the deep wounds I have received! Nor let the pow’rs of darkness boast That I am foiled, and Thou art grieved! Click here     Carl P Fohr, Click here - German painter Click here Herman Gorter, Click here -1927  Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem) Click here Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Click here - Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel) Click here Bart A van der Leck, Click here -  Dutch painter Click here Franz Jung, Click here -  writer Click here Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (Click here - 1976) Click here George Click here  (11/26/1905 – Click here/1987)   Welsh critic , Click here Click here  (1912 – Click here/1994)  Roumanian playwright Click here Click here Click here  (1912 – Click here/1992)  US telejournalist Click here Paul T B Rodenko, 1920 - poet/author (Stolen Lover) Click here Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (1920 - 2004) Click here Francoise Gilot, Click here - painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984 Click here Click here  (1922 – Click here/2000)  US comic artist Click here George Segal, Click here -  New York, American painter and sculptor Click here Marilynne Robinson, 1943 - American writer Click here Click here Tracy [Raye] Hickman, 1955 -  US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning) Click here Kara Walker, 1969 -  American artist Click here     PASSED   John Spottiswoode, [Spotswood]  Scottish historian (1565-Click here ) Click here Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), Click here Click here  Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), Click here Click here Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Click here -  German poet Click here Click here  (Click here/1797 –1883)  US abolitionist Click here Click here Coventry Patmore, British poet ( 1823- 1896) Click here Click here George, Lord Nugent (poetry, biography, &c.), Lillies, Bucks; Click here Click here Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) Ger/Brit Poetess Hope   All treasures of the earth and opulent seas, Metals and odorous woods and cunning gold, Fowls of the air and furry beasts untold, Vineyards and harvest fields and fruitful trees Nature gave unto Man; and last her keys Vouched passage to her secret ways of old Whence knowledge should be wrung, nay power to mould Out of the rough, his occult destinies. But tired of these he craved a wider scope: Then fair as Pallas from the brain of Jove From his deep wish there sprang, full-armed, to cope With all life's ills, even very death in love, The only thing man never wearies of-- His own creation--visionary Hope.                                                                 Click here  Click here Click here (1943) Can.Poet,teacher,soldier The Frosted Pane                 One night came Winter noiselessly, and leaned                  Against my window-pane.               In the deep stillness of his heart convened                   The ghosts of all his slain.                 Leaves, and ephemera, and stars of earth,                  And fugitives of grass, --               White spirits loosed from bonds of mortal birth,                   He drew them on the glass. Click here Aleksei M Remizov, Click here   Russian author (Iveren), Click here Click here  (Click here/1903 –1974)  English writer Click here Francois Billetdoux, 1991 -  French author (Word Awake) Click here Mart Kempers, sculptor, 1993 Click here Terri Jewell, 1995  writer Click here Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), 1996 Click here Click here  (Click here/1905 –1999)  English anthropologist Click here Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer ( 1943-Click here ) Click here Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (1955-2002) Click here Stefan Wul, French writer (1922-Click here) Click here Stan Berenstain, children's author (1923-Click here) Click here Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (1923-Click here ) poem Light occurs when shadows are eliminated Shadows are what exist shadows have their own exhaustive life not on this or that side of light but in its very heart intensely loving     insanely beloved and they spread over the ground their arms of gray light that enter human eyes at the corners On the other hand the shadow called light doesn’t illuminate     objects     really objects live in the dark in a perpetual surrealist aurora which we cannot contact except the way lovers do with eyes closed and lamps in our fingers     lamps on our lips                                                                                                  Translation: 2005, Richard Zenith     Click here Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (1943-2006) Click here Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (1913- 2007 ) Click here     SITES: Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here Click here       HISTORY: publication of Click here's Dramatic Lyrics (1842) Click here Click here The Independent publishes E. A. Robinson's "Click here" Click here       BONUS POEM:                             Click here  What is this witness, the watching ages, yield of hours, blurred nights, the blue commerce limned limpidities the skies rehearse dreaming their seasons, raptured in their rages. Eventless auction the sun screams and stages for outered spectacles that bloom their source, or eyes are mouths and utter tongued remorse— read me, augur, from the wrists of sages the shocks and tangencies strangled in their veins. Or stars are livid links in lucent chains. Heart will read its figure in its willing or blinded needle the compass stains; lidless volumes and vortices of pains distinct the dolor, and kind the killing.                                                            by Karen Volkman