13       EVENTS:         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 (Click here), 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 Click here.   Jan 13 Portsmouth river run 7:00 PM Anne Trubek talks about A SKEPTIC'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOUSES  Click here   Jan 13 - Plaistow 6:00pm - 8:00pm "Well Read Poems "  37 Plaistow Road , Plaistow, features plus Open mic       BIRTHDAYS:   Jan 13   Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (Click here - 1601)           Click here   Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (Click here - 1808)   Click here   Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (Click here - 1825)   Click here   Click here (1802-1890), Viennese comedic playwright   Click here   Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (1812 - 1883)   Click here   Click here  Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen 1898-1944  Danish playwright and priest,    Click here   Click here (1832-1899) Massachusetts-born rags-to-riches author   Click here Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (1859 - 1943)   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1866? – Click here/1949)  Armenian writer, mystic, teacher Click here   Clarke Ashton Smith, Click here - US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)   Click here                          Brumal Life is a tale half told, Love is a broken song; Beauty, besought so long Is a legend lost and old. Winter and silence and woe Have come, like the end of all: Slowly the last leaves fall At sunset over the snow. Here, on the darkening wold, In the bleak wind blown from space, I recall thy fugitive grace, And sigh for thy hair's lost gold.   Click here   Arthur Bertram Guthrie, American novelist, historian (Click here - 1991)   Click here   Click here(1924-1994) International Philosopher of science   Click here   Click here ‘Click here’  (1926 – Click here/2003) U.S.non-fiction author and mystery writer  Click here   Click here Click here (1926) British children's writer and Paddington Bear creator   Click here        Click here (1931-1993), Nigerian writer, teacher, and administrator Click here   Shahnon Ahmad(1933) Malaysian novelist, satirist, and short story writer   Click here   Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933) California-born mystery and sci-fi writer   Click here   Allan Davis. Winans 1936. Click here Click here, Click here, and Click here writer. Click here   Edmund White, Click here -  American author   Click here    [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], Click here - UK, sci-fi author (High Kings)   Click here   Click here (1955) Bright Lights, Big City author   Click here   Lorrie Moore, (1957) short-story writer   Click here   Elizabeth Searle, (1962).  novelist and short-story writer)  Pennsylvania   Click here   Shonda Rhimes, 1970 -  American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy   Click here       PASSED:   Click here (1547)   Click here   Click here (1599) Eng. Sheriff, Clerk, poet   The Faerie Queene   Click here   George Fox, founder of the sect of Quakers, 1690   Click here   Click here  (1826 - 1864) American Songwriter   Click here   James Joyce   (Click here/1882 –1941) Irish novelist   Click here   Click here   Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], (14 August 1876 –1960) was an Italian author and feminist  Ital poet (Una Donna) Click here   Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet 1904-1974       FOR MEXICO CITY Mexico! Capital! City of crowds where proud Flora flaunts her greatest paradise. If I toast to her don’t be surprised, she is my native city, my birthplace, where I first felt sunlight on my face! What grand museum, my city; everywhere I see cars, carriages, trucks, the roads to a thousand schools and private homes, for my people, young and old, move among them, science and affection to behold. But human tongue cannot describe such pleasure that I feel inside my city; you may think that I exaggerate but it’s the truth; and just in case you want more proof, take a journey to my land by train and you’ll see it’s no mistake what has been spoken here to you by one                                                        Salvador Novo.       Click here       D Mack Reynolds, 1983  US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed)   Click here   Bob Kaufman (April 18, 1925 –1986), Robert Garnell Kaufman , was an American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music.   Click here   Click here   Click here   William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons 1926-2009   Click here   Click here   Click here           SITES:   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here               HISTORY:       Click here - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus   Click here   Click here       Click here - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate   Click here       1981 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov   Click here   Click here   Click here                   BONUS POEM:                                 A WINTER LANDSCAPE. ALL night, all day, in dizzy, downward flight,     Fell the wild-whirling, vague, chaotic snow,     Till every landmark of the earth below, Trees, moorlands, roads, and each familiar sight Were blotted out by the bewildering white.     And winds, now shrieking loud, now whimpering low,     Seemed lamentations for the world-old woe That death must swallow life, and darkness light.   But all at once the rack was blown away,     The snowstorm hushing ended in a sigh;     Then like a flame the crescent moon on high Leaped forth among the planets; pure as they, Earth vied in whiteness with the Milky Way:     Herself a star beneath the starry sky.       by Mathilde Blind Click here