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EVENTS:

Nov 28th: Dolphin Stryker in Portsmouth NH, 2 PM Pat O’Brien with Bradigan

Nov29, Worcester MA, 9 pm   The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show  (from the Mass. South Shore)  Dave Surette: Featured poet, plus open mic, Ralph’s Diner  148 Grove St   Worcester MA 01605

11/30

7PM

Blue, 650 Congress Street, Portland, ME

Jay Davis plus open mic reading mailto: natea.portveritas.com

BIRTHDAYS:

November 28^th

John Bunyan (1628-1688) English cleric and author

http://www.johnbunyan.org/

 William Blake (1757-1827), revolutionary English poet and painter

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/24.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm

http://www.multimedialibrary.com/Articles/kazin/alfredblake.asp

http://williamblake.generative.com/home/home_main.html

http://www.gailgastfield.com/blake3.html

Victor Cousin, Fr. philosopher, 1792

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Victor_Cousin

Nikolai Nekrasov (1821 -1878), Russian poet and journalist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624968/bio

http://www.jstor.org/pss/40086615

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9619/pg9619.html

Maiju Lassila   1868-1918 Finn. Author, journalist

 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lassila.htm

Alexander [ A Block] Blok 1880-1921 Rus. poet

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/blok.htm

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) German poet, translator, biographer, short-story writer, and novelist

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/szweig.htm

Brooks Atkinson  (1894 – 01/14/1984)   US journalist, critic

http://www.nndb.com/people/242/000115894/

Irwin Edman  (1896 – 09/04/1954)   US philosopher, professor

http://www.c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/irwin_edman.html

Dawn Powell, American writer (1896 - 1965)

http://www.dawnpowell.org/life-main.php

http://www.iblist.com/author698.htm

Nancy Mitford  (1904 – 06/30/1973)  English writer

http://www.nancymitford.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=m631JM1stCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nancy+Mitford&source=bl&ots=2qCQaR6XNf&sig=z8twBNmW-LaQsniZxouAEEV8BRA&hl=en&ei=TgDxTIatHMKclgeaq9ngDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=15&ved=0CGYQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990)[ Pincherle]  Italian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/moravia.htm

Claude Levi-Strauss  (1908 – 11/01/2009)  French philosopher
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/levi-strauss_claude.html

Lance Jeffers (1919-1985), African American poet and novelist

O Africa, where I baked my bread
In the streets at 15 through
the San Francisco midnights…
O Africa, whose San Francisco shouting-church
on Geary Street and Webster saw a candle
burning in the middle of my madness…
O Africa, whose Fatha Hines and Teddy Wilson
I took to my piano…
O Africa within every brown breast that's
sucked me,
Africa's thousand calmings of my mother-hunger
across the North American continent…
O Africa, within the black folk who've loved me
in this prelude to the sip-blood time…
Africa, I lay my hand upon your swarthy belly-and
keep it there till death stubs his toe
against my manhood in the night!!!!

http://www.answers.com/topic/lance-jeffers

Rita Mae Brown (1944), Pennsylvania-born novelist and mystery writer

http://www.ritamaebrown.com/content/index.asp

Jon Stewart  (1962 – )  US comic actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829537/

http://adrawingperday.blogspot.com/

PASSED:

Basho  Matsuo (?/1644 –1694)   Japanese poet

http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ebasho.shtml

http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm

Autumns end
how does my
neighbour live?

                                                     Int by Lucien Stryck

http://www.haikupoetshut.com/basho1.html

Charles Buller, statesman and writer, 1848

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3274

Washington Irving  (04/03/1783 –1859)   US writer

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/irving.html

Richard Wright  (09/04/1908 –1960)  US writer
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/wright_richard/

Sir Malcolm Bradbury  (09/07/1932 –2000)  English writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/malcolm-bradbury/

SITES:

http://www.tate.org.uk/

http://www.newyorkeronthetown.com/sandp2.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKrAR6YBDI

http://usm.maine.edu/wompo/

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1805.html

http://thedailywh.at/post/1522699008/lights-out-delve-deep-into-the-disturbed-psyche

htt//www.everseradio.com/whadda-dey-think-theyre-servin-ovah-thea-fing-liquid-gold-now-this-is-poetry-no-not-really-but-funny/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EverseRadio+%28E-Verse+Radio%29

http://lifehacker.com/5684996/what-alcohol-actually-does-to-your-brain-and-body

HISTORY:

John Keats completes "Endymion" 1817

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1120.html

BONUS POEM:

The Lie

Anne Waldman

Art begins with a lie

      The separation is you plus me plus what we make   

            Look into lightbulb, blink, sun’s in your eye

I want a rare sky

      vantage point free from misconception   

            Art begins with a lie

Nothing to lose, spontaneous rise   

      of reflection, paint the picture

            of a lightbulb, or eye the sun

How to fuel the world, then die   

      Distance yourself from artfulness   

            How? Art begins with a lie

The audience wants to cry

      when the actors are real & passionate

            Look into footlight, then feed back to eye

You fluctuate in an artful body

      You try to imitate the world’s glory

            Art begins with a lie

                  That’s the story, sharp speck in the eye.  

                                                    by Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman, “The Lie” from Helping the Dreamer: Selected Poems, 1966-1988. Copyright © 1989 by Anne Waldman. Reprinted with the permission of Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, www.coffeehousepress.com.
Source: Helping the Dreamer: Selected Poems, 1966-1988 (Coffee House Press, 1989)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-waldman