Dec. 30

Events:

First week of 2012

1st Monday of the month – 6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington – Adult Poets and Writers Group (795-5944, http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/poetwrite.html )

1^st Tuesday of the month -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro - Features followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)

1st Wednesday of the month – 7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth – Portsmouth Poetry Hoot – Features followed by open mike (772-4345, http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm )738 Islington St., Portsmouth - Hoots sponsored by Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program (info.pplp.org) http://www.PPLP.org/hootnight.htm)

1st Thursday of the month – 6:30 p.m. – Mel Flanagan’s Irish Café and Pub, Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. 332-6357)

1st Thursday of the month – Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the feature starts at 6:15 p.m. – Portable Pantry , Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. Pat O’Brien, 866-6034

 1st Thursday of the month - 7:00pm – Adelle’s Coffeehouse, Dover – Primal Tongue - Features followed by open mike prose (Josiah Eikelboom, 205-6192, jeikelboom.osiail.com )

1st Friday of the month – 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Features followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net )

Born:

December 30

Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus 0039 - – 13 September 0081  10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem

http://www.roman-emperors.org/titus.htm

John Philips (1676-1709 ) Eng Augustan period Poet/Scholar

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/257.html

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/textrecord.php?action=GET&textsid=37978
James Cantey 1818 -1874 Brigadier-General (Confederate Army)

http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkersAL/MarkerDetail.cfm?KeyID=57-021&MarkerTitle=James%20Cantey

http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/

http://alterdestiny.blogspot.com/2008/10/myth-of-black-confederates.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7946

John White Geary 1819 -February 8, 1873) American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)in the American Civil War. He was, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5829279

William Rounseville Alger  (1822 – ??/??/1905)  US theologian

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19199/pg19199.html
John Peter Altgeld (1847-March 12,1902 ) German/US (Governor-IL)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists
http://florencekelley.northwestern.edu/historical/altgeld/
Rudyard Kipling  (1865 – 01/18/1936)  English writer (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)

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

Stephen Leacock  (1869 – 03/28/1944)  Canadian writer economist/humorist/professor
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/198.html

Alfred Emanuel Smith  (1873 – 10/04/1944)  US Governor (NY)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1495.html

L. P. Hartley  (1895 – 12/13/1972)   English writer

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leslie-Poles-Hartley/114967638518495

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Leslie+Poles+Hartley%22

Daniil Ivanovich Iuvachev Kharms (1905-42) Russian Poet, short story writer, and dramatist

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

http://www.sevaj.dk/kharms/kharmseng.htm

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/12/daniil-kharms-the-blue-notebook/

        A Song

We shall close our eyes,
O people! O people!
We shall open our eyes,
O warriors! O warriors!

Lift us up above the sea,
O angels! O angels!
Drown the enemy under the sea,
O demons! O demons!

We have closed our eyes,
O people! O people!
We have opened our eyes,
O warriors! O warriors!

Give us strength to fly over the sea,
O birds! O birds!
Give us courage to die under the sea,
O fish! O fish!

http://www.poemhunter.com/daniil-ivanovich-kharms/poems/
Paul Frederic Bowles 1910-11/18/1999) US composer/writer (Shelting Sky) and traveler

http://www.paulbowles.org/bowlesbiography.html

Al Purdy (1918 -April 21, 2000.) Canadian poet, traveler, screenwriter

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/purdy/poem2.htm

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/poetry/topics/1617/

Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates] (1928 – 06/02/2008)  US singer, songwriter rock 'n' roll pioneer

http://www.bodiddley.com/
Barry Briggs 1934 -  New Zealand auto maker (World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
http://www.aptribes.com/events/details/121158-Barry%20Briggs,%20New%20Zealand%20auto%20maker,%20World%20Champion%201957,%2058,%2064.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/motorsport/6014861/Barry-Briggs-relives-his-glory-days
Sandy Koufax 1935  - Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=koufasa01
John Cowan Hartford (1937 – June 4, 2001) American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician- singer/songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour, Gentle on My Mind)

http://www.johnhartford.com/
 [Noel] “ No l” Paul Stookey 1937-  American folk singer /musician/comedian (Peter, Paul, & Mary) Christian recording artist

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-paul-and-mary-p2102

http://www.noelpaulstookey.com/

Michael Nesmith(1942) US singer, songwriter, videographer,White-Out heir, actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)

http://old.monkees.net/nez/default.php

Davy Jones  (1945 – )  English singer, dancer actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427888/

Patti Smith  (1946 – )  US singer, songwriter, poet

http://www.pattismith.net/intro.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/patti-smith-p126485

Jeff Lynne (1947 - ) Brit rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jeff-lynne-p4811
 Somtow Sucharitkul [SP Somtow] 1952- Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters)
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?151
Matt Lauer 1957 - US telejournalist New York NY, TV host (Today Show)

http://www.drapermonologues.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.introduction,

Tracey Ullman  (1959 – )  English actor comedienne singer (Tracey Ullman Show)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001808/

Tiger Woods  (1975 – )  US golfer

http://web.tigerwoods.com/index

Passed:

December 30

Romain Rolland  (01/29/1866 –1944)  French writer /pacifist (Nobel 1915

http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/romain_rolland.html

Alfred North Whitehead  (02/15/1861 –1947)  English mathematician, philosopher
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18835/18835-h/18835-h.htm

http://www.nndb.com/people/273/000032177/

Ruth Draper  (12/02/1884 –1956)  English monologuist

http://www.drapermonologues.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.introduction
Bert Berns ( Nov 8,1929 -1967)  US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout)

From Here Comes The Night

I can see right out my window

Walkin' down the street my girl with another guy

His arms around her like it used to be with me

Oh, it makes me want to die

Well, here it comes

Here comes the night

Here comes the night…Whoa, oh, oh, yeah

There they go It's funny how they look so good together

Wonder what is wrong with me?

Why can't I except the fact

She's chosen him and simply let them be?

She's with him he's turning down the lights

Now he's holdin' her the way I used to do

I could see her closin' her eyes an' tellin' him lies

Exactly like she told me, too
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Well, here it comes

Here comes the night

The long, the long, the lonely night

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bert-berns-p56258

Sonny Liston  (05/08/1932 –1970)  US boxer

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=9031&cat=boxer

Richard Rodgers  (06/28/1902 –1979)  US composer (Rogers & Hammerstein)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rodgers-p14108

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C33

Mack David (Jul 5, 1912 -1993)  US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mack-david-p309041

Julius Epstein  (08/22/1909 –2000)  US screenwriter
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258493/

John Gregory Dunne  (05/25/1932 –2003)  US writer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/john-gregory-dunne/

Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 –2005) popular American novelist,

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/rona-jaffe/

Sites:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465025110/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=todayinliter-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465025110

http://jon2012.com/welcome/home.html

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38420/38420-h/38420-h.htm

http://nativenewsonline.org/history/historyheadlines.shtml

http://daily.sightline.org/blog/

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

Bonus Poem:

     “Tutorial”

When you’ve got no looks to lose,
You won’t worry about losing them.

If you get no taste for booze,
You won’t feel bad for boozing.

If you get no inheritance,
You’ll have nothing to squander.

Unburdened, there is less to burn,
No load to lean under, no grace to learn.

                                  by Ernest Hilbert