Jan. 21

Events:

Jan. 21 Jaffrey Third Saturday of every month. Pot luck at 7pm, poetry open mic at 8pm, followed by a feature poet. $3 at the door MindFull Books 29 Main Street Jaffrey NH Audio Graffiti Poetry Series

http://www.facebook.com/audiograffitipoetry#!/audiograffitipoetry?sk=wall

Jan. 21 BYFIELD, MA Cat in the Cradle Coffeehouse with Sylvan Roots http://www.myspace.com/sylvanroots     Opening for Poor Howard & Bullfrog

http://www.poorhowardstith.com/ http://www.byfieldcac.org/coffeehouse.html  All performances  Doors 7:30pm / Music 8:00pm   $5.00 Admission (unless otherwise noted BYFIELD COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 7 CENTRAL STREET, BYFIELD, MA (exit 55 off I-95)   Directions & Information: www.byfieldcac.org     (978) 463-3335

Born:

January 21

John Fitch, 1743 – July 2, 1798) U S. inventor

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljohnfitch.htm

http://www.automodello.com/fitchphoenix.htm

Eliza Roxcy Snow, (1804 - 1887) American poet

http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/s/SNOW,ELIZA.html
John C Frémont [Pathfinder], 1813 –july 13,1890  map maker/explorer (western US)/Governor (AZ)

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=f000374
 John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-May 17,1875   ) (D) 14th US Vice Pressident (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy)

http://www.civil-war-tribute.com/john-c-breckenridge-bio.htm
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824 – 05/10/1863) Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=536&page=gr

Egon Friedell 1878-1938 Austrian critic, essayist, cabaret performer, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe) & amateur cultural historian

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/friedell.htm

Wolfgang Köhler 1887-1967 German-American Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes)

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/kohler.htm

Davíð Stefánsson 1895-1964; Icelandic poet, novelist, playwright, and librarian

http://www.enjoyiceland.is/resources/frame.aspx?Url=http://www.skaldhus.akureyri.is

Richard P. Blackmur 1904-1965, US poet and critic

Half -Tide Ledge

SUNDAY the sea made morning worship, sang
Venite, Kyrie, and a long Amen,
over a flowing cassock did put on
glittering blindness, surplice of the sun.
Towards high noon her eldest, high-run tide
rebelled at formal song and in the Sanctus
made heavy heavy mockery of God,
and I, almost before 1 knew it, saw
the altar ledges of the Lord awash.
These are the obsequies I think on most.

http://allpoetry.com/Richard_P_Blackmur

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/blackmur_richard_p.html

 Christian Dior  (1905 – 10/24/1957) French fashion designer

 http://www.dior.com/couture/en_us

http://www.digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/search/collection/p16029coll3/searchterm/dior/field/creato/mode/all/conn/and/order/title
Paul Scofield 1922 – 2008  Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006890/
Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], 1923 –Sept 12 ,1997 US sci-fi writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?157

Benny Hill   (1925 – 04/20/1992)  English comic actor /comedian (Benny Hill Show)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001350/
Mary Ellen McAnally 1939 -  Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)

http://www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/okauthors&CISOPTR=163&CISOBOX=1&REC=5
Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], 1939- July1,1995  Brooklyn NY, DJ (Midnight Special)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wolfman-jack-p21475

Richard P. "Richie" Havens (January 21, 1941) American folk singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richie-havens-p2000

Mac Davis 1942-   Lubbock TX, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mac-davis-p1579

Passed:

January 21

Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (12/08/1723 – 01/21/1789) German philosopher

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baron-von-Holbach/106588986045622?sk=wiki

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 –1922) American author, editor and satirist.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4945

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=release_date&query=979

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin (04/22/1870 –1924) Russian political leader

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSlenin.htm

Lytton Giles Strachey (03/01/1880 –1932) English biographer /critic

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11815825

George Augustus Moore (02/24/1852 –1933) Irish novelist

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1366

RONDO

ID I love thee? I only did desire

To hold thy body unto mine,

And smite it with strange fire

Of kisses burning as a wine,

And catch thy odorous hair, and twine

It thro' my fingers amorously.

Did I love thee?

Did I love thee? I only did desire

To watch thine eyelids lilywise

Closed down, and thy warm breath respire

As it came through the thickening sighs,

And speak my love in such fair guise

Of passion's sobbing agony.

Did I love thee?

Did I love thee? I only did desire

To drink the perfume of thy blood

In vision, and thy senses tire

Seeing them shift from ebb to flood

In consonant sweet interlude,

And if love such a thing not be,

I loved not thee.

http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/moore_george.html

George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (06/25/1903 –1950) English author (Animal Farm, 1984),

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gorwell.htm
Cecil B. [lount]  de Mille (08/12/1881 –1959) American director

http://www.nndb.com/people/621/000031528/
 Blaise Cendrars Frédéric Louis Sauser  ( 1887-1961)Swiss/French poet (J'ai tué)

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cendrars.htm

Jan (Johannes Cornelis) Arends, 13 Feb 1925-1974 ) Dutch writer , poet and literary translator .

 http://www.geheugenvanplanzuid.nl/columnist/grazell059.htm

Sandro Penna, 1906-1977 Italian poet

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sandro-Penna/113193488695122

http://uspoetsabroad.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/three-poems-by-sandro-penna/

Jackie Wilson  June 9,1934- 1984 American Soul

 http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jackie-wilson-p5843

Giannis Skaribas, Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas September 28, 1893- 1984 Greek writer, dramatist, and poet
http://yomi.mobi/egate/Giannis_Skarimpas/a

James Beard (05/05/1903 –1985) US chef and author

http://jamesbeard.org/index.php?q=node/49

Colonel Tom Parker Andreas Cornelis ("Dries") van Kuijk  (June 26, 1909 –1997) entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12166&pt=Tom%20%27Colonel%27%20Parker

Peggy Lee  (05/26/1920 –2002)  US singer

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peggy-lee-p3116

http://www.peggylee.com/

Paul Haines, 1933- 2003 American-born Canadian poet and jazz lyricist
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-haines-p83364

Sites:

http://www.byfieldcac.org/

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/125xx/doc12596/hr1633.pdf

http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9GIDya/oldpoetry.com/oauthor/list

http://www.farmmuseum.org/

http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/

History:

January 21

1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency

http://www.nndb.com/people/216/000112877/

1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi

http://www.olemiss.edu/

1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba

http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/pope-cuba.html

Bonus Poem:

                                                              http://www.bartleby.com/248/1540.html