19           EVENTS:   January 19, 2011, Concord: Poets Christine Gelineau and Maxine Kumin will open the Poetry Society of NH’s monthly reading as the features. An open mike will follow at 7 p.m. At Gibson’s Bookstore (603-224-0562; Click here; Click here). January 19, 2011, Cambridge, MA: Poetry at the Cantab Lounge will specialize with a night of Individual World Poetry Slam Finals for the final four rounds. One representative will be chosen to participate in the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS). Cover charge is $5 and will help raise funds for our IWPS representative. There will be no open slam. At 8 p.m., Cantab Lounge (Click here; Click here).       BIRTHDAYS:   Jan 19      Click here  (1200 – Click here/1253)  Japanese religious leader Click here   Nicholas Copernicus, Niclas Koppernigk ; Italian: ; 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer   Click here   James Watt, 1736 – 25 August 1819). Scot inventor   Click here   Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737- 1814; French writer   Click here   Isaiah Thomas, Click here - US, printer/editor/publisher/historian   Click here   Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Click here - Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)   Click here   Click here   Auguste Comte, Montpellier, France (1798–1857) Phylosopher, founder of school of positivism,   Click here   Click here   Click here  (01/19/1807 – Click here/1870)  US general   Click here   Click here   Click here (01/19/1809 – Click here/1849)  US horror story writer and poet   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here       Tom Hood the younger 1835 - 20 November 1874), was an Click here Click here and Click here, son of the Click here and author Click here                                All in the Downs, I would I had something to do - or to think! Or something to read, or to write! I am rapidly verging on Lunacy’s brink, Or I shall be dead before night. In my ears has been ringing and droning all day, Without ever a stop or a change, That poem of Tennyson’s - heart-cheering lay! - Of the Moated Monotonous Grange! The stripes in the carpet and paper alike I have counted, and counted all through. And now I’ve a fervid ambition to strike Out some path of wild pleasure that’s new. They say if a number you count, and re-count, That the time imperceptibly goes: - Ah, I wish - how I wish! - I’d ne’er learnt the amount Of my aggregate fingers and toes. “Enjoyment is fleeting,” the proverbs all say, “Even that, which it feeds upon, fails.” I’ve arrived at the truth of the saying today, By devouring the whole of my nails. I have numbered the minutes, so heavy and slow, Till of that dissipation I tire. And as for exciting amusements - you know One can’t ALWAYS be stirring the fire!   Click here   Click here  (1839 – Click here/1906)  French painter Click here   Click here  1850 – Click here/1933)  English politician, scholar Click here   Eugene Brieux, Click here -1932  French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)   Click here   Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (1879 - 1925)   Click here   Click here   Click here   (1887 – Click here/1943)U.S. short-story writer and critic   Click here   Click here   Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (1913 - 1955)   Click here   Click here  (1917 – Click here/2004)  English writer   Click here   Click here   Click here [ Mary Patricia Plangman] (1921-1995) U.S. mystery writer   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1921 – Click here/1995)  US writer   Click here   Click here   Jean Francois Revel, 1924 -  French journalist/author (Ni Marx ni Jesus)   Click here   Click here  (1932 – )  US director Click here   Click here (1932-1992) Scottish/British poet   Click here   Click here (1933-1968) Finnish journalist, novelist, and translator.   Click here   Click here  (1943 – Click here/1970)  US singer ,   Click here   Click here (1946) English writer   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1946 – )  US singer-songwriter   Click here   Cindy Sherman, 1954 - American artist   Click here   John Wozniak, 1971 -  American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)   Click here   Click here               PASSED:       Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1547) Eng Poet     Click here   Click here   William Congreve,   (Click here/1670 –1729) English writer  poet,   Click here   Click here   Charles Earl of Dorset, 1636-1706 Eng.B.P.    Click here   Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar / grammarian 1674-Click here   Click here   Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic 1713- Click here   Click here   Isaac Disraeli, Eng miscellaneous writer, 1848.   Click here   Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer 1805-Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here  (Click here/1809 –1865)  French writer Click here   Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar 1873- Click here   Click here   Thomas Hart Heart Benson Benton, American painter 1889-1975   Click here   Click here  (Click here/1898 –1980)   US Supreme Court Justice   Click here   Click here  (Click here/1894 –1987)  English writer   Click here   John Russell, 1991  actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky)   Click here   Click here   Eugene Fuller, Click here  polymath/linguist   Click here   //  p113   Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer 1938- 1995   Click here   Bernard Baily, Click here  comic artist    Click here   Donald Simpson, 1996   film producer   Click here   Click here  (Click here/1923 –1997)  US writer /poet   Click here   Click here   Click here       Creation Made Like Hope   Ethereal and supreme Of tersest heaven it has pronounced a daily storm While hours have been supreme, it has had hours in its glee A purple name has covered the fans of sovereign things about its existence Has raised and has rased, but there has been no death in these mornings Has experienced and has perched Has put up with it and has disinvested Has raised and has razed Has pondered and has asked Has said and has raised   Click here           Carl Perkins, Click here - singer/songwriter   Click here   Click here   Click here   Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist 1916-Click here   Click here   K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist 1974- 2005   Click here   John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) 1939-2008   Click here             SITES:   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   http://Click here   Click here**   Click here    ** from tammi t   Click here                                                       BONUS POEM:       Haiku - Wacht am Rhein       Watching until dawn matches embers' umber gleam, some sentinels yawn. 10 January 1993 revised 17 January 2010 Jonathan ROBIN   Click here