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Events:

January 23 Conway . 6:30pm - Mt. Storyteller's Guild Meeting Click here

Soon…Coming to a Neighborhood near YOU…

January 27, 2012 Portsmouth, NH  6:30am until 9:00pm ; New Hampshire's best performance poets will compete for a $200 cash prize. Raffles and donations will help put on the first annual Black History Month celebration of local black contemporary poetry .At the Blue Mermaid Restaurant ;  Host: Slam Free or Die poetry slam founder, Mark Palos.  Also in a association with Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program and the Seacoast African American Cultural Center  Competing Poets so far...Cara Chanoine  ,Anthony Febo, Beau Williams, Brandon Amico, Ryan McLellan, Chris Clauss, Wil Gibson, Sam Teitel, Matt Gallant, Mckendy Fis-Aime, Matthew Richards, Heidi Therrien  . Click here  Click here    Click here

January 28, 2012, Cape Elizabeth, ME: Local Writers at the Local Buzz 4-5 pm
Readings by John-Michael Albert, Poetry - Jane DiMillo, Nonfiction - Morgan Callan Rogers, Fiction. The Local Buzz: 327 Ocean House Rd. (at Pond Cove IGA Shopping Ctr), Cape Elizabeth, ME. Come hear local writers reading from their work while enjoying custom Click here teas & coffees or a glass of wine, and delicious, locally-sourced food. More information at Click here.

1/28		11AM		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Poetry Society of NH Members Open mic mailto: Click here
1/28		Noon		Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03104		Maudelle Driskell - director of the Frost Place in Franconia -will read fro the Poetry Society of NH. All are welcome mailto:Click here

 

Born:

January 23

John Barclay 1582 – Aug 15,1621, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)

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Joseph Hewes 1730 - November 10, 1779 US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)

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Click here (1737 – Click here/1793) US founding father

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Friedrich von Matthison 1761 -1831  German poet (Adelaide)

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Stendahl [Marie Henri Beyle], 1783-1842  France, writer (Le Rouge et Le Noir)

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Charles Harpur (1813-68) Australian poet

The End of the Book

My Click here is Click here that has been to me
My only solace for this many a day.
But whether it in other company
May so beguile the time and hue the ray
Of loneliness and thought, I dare not say;
Nor whether with the future it shall be
A thing of note, nor whether presently
’Tis doomed to waste like a thin mist away.
Yet whatsoever be its worldly lot,
I know that, hive-like, it with love is stored,
And that through all its pages I have not
Written one wilfully misleading word,
Or traced one feeling that my heart ignored—
One line that truth has counselled me to blot.

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Click here (1831– Click here/1883) French artist / Impressionist painter (Déjeuner sur L'Herbe)

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John Randolph Chambliss Jr (1833 -1864 ) Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

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Katherine Tynan (1861-2 April 1931) Irish-born Click here-  Click here and poetry)

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Herbert David Croly 1869 –may 17,1930 US author (Promise of American Life)

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Oton Zupancic 1878 – June 11, 1949) Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom) Click here and Click here

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Click here (1899– Click here/1957) US actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)

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Anya Seton (1904 - November 8, 1990) Ann Seton, Click here author of historical romances.

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Louis Zukofsky (1904 May12, 1978) Click here Click here; one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Click here group of poets)

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Konstanty I Galczynski 1905-Dec 6 ,1953  Polish poet (Zielona Ges)

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Hediki Yukawa 1907 -81  Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)

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Hubert Nicholson 1908 -66  Eng poet/novelist

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Sir William Arthur Lewis 1915-91. Black Caribbean economist, educator and Nobel Prize winner.

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Potter Stewart 1915 - 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Click here of the Click here. Michigan, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)

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Gertrude Belle Elion 1918 -99 New York City NY, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)

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Click here (1919– Click here/1962) US TV pioneer comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)

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Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr 1923-96  US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars)

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Click here (1928 – ) French actor

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John Polanyi 1929-  Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
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Derek Walcott (1930) Afro-Caribbean poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992) playwright and educator

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Johnny Russell 1940-July 3,2001  country singer/songwriter
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Passed:

January 23

William Baffin (  1584-1622)  British explorer

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Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis 1592-1639  Peruvian poet, burned at stake

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Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla 1607-1648  Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo)
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Click here (Click here/1668–1744) Italian philosopher

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Edward Rutledge ( 1749 -1800)  US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)

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George Clymer (1739  -1813)  US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
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Click here (Click here/1785–1866) English writer –novelist & poet / Victorian Scholar

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Click here  (12 June 1819-1875) Eng priest of the Click here, university professor, historian and Victorian novelist Westward Ho!),

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IN AN ILLUMINATED MISSAL

I would have loved: there are no mates in heaven;
I would be great: there is no pride in heaven;
I would have sung, as doth the nightingale
The summer’s night beneath the moonè pale,
But Saintès hymnes alone in heaven prevail.
My love, my song, my skill, my high intent,
Have I within this seely book y-pent:
And all that beauty which from every part
I treasured still alway within mine heart,
Whether of form or face angelical,
Or herb or flower, or lofty cathedral,
Upon these sheets below doth lie y-spred,
In quaint devices deftly blazonèd.
Lord, in this tome to thee I sanctify
The sinful fruits of worldly fantasy.

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Click here (Click here/1835–1893) US clergyman

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José Zorrilla y Moral 1817-1893   Spanish poet (Granada)

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 Edward Alexander MacDowell December 18, 1860 -1908) Click here composer and pianist of the Click here (Indian Suite)

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Click here (Click here/1885–1931) Russian dancer

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Click here (Click here/1898 –1937) US actor

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Click here (Click here/1887–1943) US writer/ critic

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Click here (Click here/1867–1947) French artist - painter/illustrator

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Paul Robeson (April 9,1898   -1976) US athlete/lawyer/singer

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Terry Kath Jan 31,1946-1978 rock guitarist (Chicago)

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Click here (Click here/1904–1989) Spanish surrealist painter

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Click here (Click here/1912–1991) Canadian writer

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John Keith Laumer (June 9, 1925(1925-06-09) –1993(1993-01-23))Click here Click here.

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Norman MacCaig ( 1910 -1996) Scot poet

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Richard Berry ( April 11,1935 -1997) US lyricist (Louie Louie)

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Click here (Click here/1944–2003) US actor

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Click here (Click here/1927–2004) US entertainer

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Click here (Click here/1920–2004 German-Australian photographer

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Click here (Click here/1925–2005) US TV host , Tonight Show

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Click here (Click here/1914–2011) US exercise maven

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History:

January 23

1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri

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BONUS POEM:

Words from Cold Mountain

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If there’s something good, delight!

Seize the moment while it flies!

Though life can last a hundred years,

Who’s seen their thirty thousand days?

Just an instant then you’re gone.

Why sit whining over things?

When you’ve read the Classics through,

You’ll know quite enough of death.

 

Words from Cold Mountain Twenty-Seven Poems by Han-shan Translated by A. S. Kline © 2006 All Rights Reserved.

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