15   EVENTS: January 15, 2011, Keene: Charles W. Pratt, author of From the Box Marked Some Are Missing, and Becky Sakellariou, author of Earth Listening, will read from their poetry collections. At 2 p.m., Toadstool Bookshops (603-352-8815; www.toadbooks.com).       BIRTHDAYS: Jan 15 Jean Baptiste Poquelin  Moliere (1622 – 02/17/1673)  French satirical dramatist  actor and playwright http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/moliere.htm http://www.online-literature.com/moliere/ Dr. Samuel Parr, 1747, Harrow; http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.ketteringham/appendix.htm Dr. John Aikin,  English doctor and writer (1747-1822) http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnaikin.html François Joseph Talma (1763–1826) was a French tragedian.actor http://www.alexandredumasetcompagnie.com/images/1.pdf/MemoiresDeTalma.PDF Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798. Irish story teller (Fairy legends) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29541/29541-h/29541-h.htm Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (1803 - 1811) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLLBsby863I Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  (1809 – 01/19/1865)  French writer http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSproudhon.htm Elizabeth Keckley 1818. She was a Black domestic, author, and abolitionist. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/elizabeth-keckley-mary-todds-maid Mikhail Evgrafovich [Yevgrafovich] Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) Russian novelist and satirist http://www.archive.org/stream/villagepriestoth00milirich/villagepriestoth00milirich_djvu.txt Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) Romanian poet                     O Remain "O remain, dear one, I love you, Stay with me in my fair land, For your dreamings and your longings Only I can understand. You, who like a prince reclining Over the pool with heaven starred; You who gaze up from the water With such earnest deep regard. Stay, for where the lapping wavelets Shake the tall and tasseled grass, I will make you hear in secret How the furtive chamois pass. Oh, I see you wrapped in magic, Hear your murmur low and sweet, As you breqk the shallow water With your slender naked feet; See you thus amidst the ripples Which the moon's pale beams engage, And your years seem but an instant, And each instant seems an age." Thus spake the woods in soft entreaty; Arching boughs above me bent, But I whistled high, and laughing Out into the open went. Now though even I roamed that country How could I its charm recall ... Where has boyhood gone, I wonder, With its pool and woods and all? (Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu)   http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poeti_tr/eminescu_eng.php Mazo de la Roche 1871-1961  Canadian author http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/delaroch.htm http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/mazo-de-la-roche/ Leadbelly (1888-1949)  [Huddie Ledbetter] / American blues singer"King of The Twelve-String Guitar," http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ledbelly.htm Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-.1967) Ukranian writer http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v08/v08p507_Weber.html Osip(Emilevich  Mandelstam 1891- 1938 Russian poet and essayist http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/Mandelstam.htm http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet 1897 – 1931 Wind in The Pines This is the hill of a winter night, an unfrequented temple at the foot of the hill, a lonely soul inside the temple: praying in grief, sinking into depression;------- Why this roaring, this howling, drum, gong, tiger and leopard? Why this secret whisper, this personal admiration, the intense tragic and a lifetime of frustrations------ once more like the tide, submerge this hesitant soul and unfrequented temple?   http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111522/english/peom.htm Goodman Ace   (1899 – 03/25/1982)    US humorist http://www.radiohof.org/comedy/goodjane.html Cy Feuer, 1911 -  NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line) http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=4930 Etty Hillesum  (1914 – 11/30/1943)  Dutch lawyer, writer http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/etty-hillesums-inner-journey Martin Luther King, Jr.( 1929 – 04/04/1968) US religious leader, civil rights activist http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/birth-dreamer-and-leader-dr-martin-luther-king-jr http://www.thekingcenter.org/ Ivor Cutler (1923-2006) Scottish poet, playwright, song- and story-writer, cartoonist, and story-teller http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Ernest J. Gaines  (1933 – )  African-American writer and educator novelist http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/ernest-gaines-soulful-writer-rare-talent http://www.reesefuller.com/articles/going-home/ http://www.neabigread.org/books/lessonbeforedying/lesson04_about.php Robert Silverberg, 1935 -  US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet) http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/robert-silverberg/ Frank Conroy (1936-2005) NYC native, writer http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4580769 Captain Beefheart  (1941 – 12/17/2010)  US musician, composer http://www.shiningsilence.com/hpr/ Johari Amini [JohariCourts-Amini, JCourts-Amini, JohariC] 1948. African-American teacher of theater, director of several outstanding plays, an educator, a writer, and an administrator. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/johari-amini-theater-director-and-teacher     PASSED Sir Philip Warwick, English writer and politician 1609- 1683 http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/2200.php Fanny Kemble, British actress and author 1809-1893                                           SONG. Yet once again, but once, before we sever,    Fill we one brimming cup,—it is the last! And let those lips, now parting, and for ever,    Breathe o’er this pledge, “the memory of the past!” Joy’s fleeting sun is set; and no to-morrow    Smiles on the gloomy path we tread so fast, Yet, in the bitter cup, o’erfilled with sorrow,    Lives one sweet drop,—the memory of the past. But one more look from those dear eyes, now shining    Through their warm tears, their loveliest and their last; But one more strain of hands, in friendship twining,    Now farewell all, save memory of the past. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24216/24216-h/24216-h.htm Matthew B Brady, 1896   US photographer (Civil War) http://www.mathewbrady.com/ Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer 1850-1916 http://www.elenakaledina.com/inlay%20-%202.pdf http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091469/ Yves Tanguy, 1955  French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tanguy_yves.html David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist 1882- 1967 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/burliuk_david.html Theodor Werner, 1969   German painter http://www.artnet.com/artist/17734/theodor-werner.html Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) 1881-1972 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2446226/bio Red Smith, 1982  sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk) http://thinkexist.com/quotes/red_smith/ Sammy Cahn, June 18, 1913 –1993) American songwriter Let It Snow Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we've no place to go, Let It Snow (x3).   It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I've bought some corn for popping, The lights are turned way down low, Let It Snow (x3). When we finally kiss goodnight, How I'll hate going out in the storm. But if you'll really hold me tight, All the way home I'll be warm.   The fire is slowly dying, And, my dear, we're still good-bying, But as long as you love me so, Let It Snow (x3). http://www.christmassongswords.com/let-it-snow-songs.htm http://songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C5 Harry Nilsson  (06/15/1941 –1994)  US singer, songwriter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo   Harriet van Horne  (05/17/1920 –1998)  US writer   http://creativequotations.com/one/1604.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887196/bio Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter 1915-2003 http://www.wildwomenofsong.com/dorisfisher.htm   Olivia Goldsmith  (??/??/1949 –2004)  US writer   http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/olivia-goldsmith/ http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-goldsmith-olivia.asp Elizabeth Janeway  (10/07/1913 –2005)  US writer   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16783-2005Jan17.html Hortense Calisher  (12/20/1911 –2009)  US writer http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/25/hortense-calisher-obituary     SITES: http://thehairpin.com/2010/12/a-map-of-the-worlds-facebook-friendships/ http://www.machinima.com/ http://www.seacoastnh.com/Today/Top_Event/Pontine_Does_Our_Town/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/ http://www.tourismpei.com/index.php3 http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/projects/joke_machine/joke_page.php http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16340/16340-h/16340-h.htm   HISTORY:   1752 - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism http://www.nndb.com/people/980/000084728/ http://www.ruthnestvold.com/fielding.htm 1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH) http://www.facebook.com/pages/US-Ski-Team/115984315078986 1899 The San Francisco Examiner publishes Edwin Markham's "The Man with a Hoe" http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/markham/hoe.htm http://www.sfexaminer.com/ 1938 The New Statesman publishes W. H. Auden's "As I Walked out one Evening" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-i-walked-out-one-evening-3/ http://www.newstatesman.com/contents 1955 - D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/132198.html         BONUS POEM: I Am in Need of Music   I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling fingertips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.                                        Elizabeth Bishop http://www.poemhunter.com/elizabeth-bishop/poems/