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Events:

Wednesday, January 18^th Concord , at 7pm . We’ll start the New Year with an OPEN MIC at Gibson’s Bookstore. Everyone is invited. Bring a number of poems to share, anything 19 lines or less – vile villanelles or sonnetelles, sexy sonnets or sonnenizios, cinquains or quatrains, a rondeau, a triolet, haiku or tanka, some killer couplets or limericks, yes, even a prose poem. For further information contact Don Kimball at Click here .

Born:

January 18

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Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (1811  - May 25, 1883) French Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here activist. He is remembered as the intellectual creator of the Click here in Click here, and the lesser known Click here in Click here, France.
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[Henry]  Click here  (1840-Click here/1921)  English writer - poet, critic, and biographer

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Click here (1867-1916), Nicaraguan poet and short-story writer

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Fatality

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the Click here is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

To be, and to know nothing, and to lack a way,
and the dread of having been, and future terrors...
And the sure terror of being dead Click here,
and to suffer all through life and through the darkness,

and through what we do not know and hardly suspect...
And the flesh that temps us with bunches of cool grapes,
and the tomb that awaits us with its funeral sprays,
and not to know where we go,
nor whence we came!...

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Click here (1882 -Click here/1956) English writer and mathematician (Winnie the Pooh, etc.)
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Click here  (1882 – Click here/1960)  English suffragist
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C.[lifford] M.[artin] Eddy, Jr., 1896 - November 21, 1967 American writer/ cohort of Lovecraft

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Jacob Bronowski (1908 – 08/22/1974) Polish-English mathematician

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Click here  (1913 – Click here/1987)  US actor

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Click here (1932-2007)  US sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)

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Jon Stallworthy, 1935 - English poet

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THE SLEEPING GYPSY

I was the gypsy sleeping

under a desert moon

white-bellied as the mandolin

beside me on the dune.

The wind that stirred my rainbow dress

was no wind but the breath

of some beast with my father's eyes

and the smell of death.

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Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times, (1949); Pulitzer Prize

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R. Stevie Moore, Click here - American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer

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Dave Attell, 1965 - American writer and comedian

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Passed:

January 18

Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich (12/23/1743-1803)Click here author of Click here( Dushenka -1778).

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Click here  (Click here/1790 –1862)  US President (10), VP (10) 

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Christian Nestell Bovee (02/22/1820 –1904) US writer

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Click here (1833-1908) American Writer Click here Click here  (Click here/1865 –1936)  English writer Click here   Harp Song of the Dane Women What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? She has no house to lay a guest in— But one chill bed for all to rest in, That the pale suns and the stray bergs nest in. She has no strong white arms to fold you, But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you Bound on the rocks where the tide has rolled you. Yet, when the signs of summer thicken, And the ice breaks, and the birch-buds quicken, Yearly you turn from our side, and sicken— Sicken again for the shouts and the slaughters,— And steal away to the lapping waters, And look at your ship in her winter quarters. You forget our mirth, and talk at the tables, The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables— To pitch her sides and go over her cables! Then you drive out where the storm-clouds swallow: And the sound of your oar-blades falling hollow Is all we have left through the months to follow. Ah, what is a Woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? Click here   Click here   (Click here/1903 –1952)  US stooge Click here Click here  (Click here/1880 –1966)  US writer Click here Click here (July 23,1914-1971) US Pulp-magazine Illustrator Click here Click here   Click here/1904 –1980)  English photographer, fashion designer Click here Bruce Chatwin May 13,1940– 1989  Brit travel writer Click here Click here Click here (1906-1993) brit Hist fiction authour Click here Click here Click here  (Click here/1941 –1997)  US senator (MA), presidential candidate Click here Jan Twardowski, June 1, 1915  -Click here ,  Polish poet The Quail Quail, you who always sound loudest at sunrise and sundown isn’t it so that there are only two pure moments the early one light and the other at twilight when God gives a day and when He takes it away when somebody sought me and when I’m superfluous when somebody loved me and when I’m left alone when I am born and when I die those two seconds which will always come the one white the other dark so very genuine that both are naked so far beyond us that we are no longer there Translated by Sarah Lawson, Malgorzata Koraszewska Click here Click here  (Click here/1925 –2007)  US journalist Click here Robert Brown Parker,17 September 1932-2010 US crime Fiction Writer Click here

Grigore Vieru, February 14, 1935-2009  Romanian poet

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History:

1775 Click here’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland was published on this day .

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Bonus Poem:

		White Night     I haven't locked the door, Nor lit the Click here, You don't know, don't care, That tired I haven't the strength To decide to go to bed. Seeing the fields fade in The sunset murk of pine-needles, And to know all is lost, That life is a cursed hell: I've got drunk On your voice in the doorway. I was sure you'd come back.

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