Jan. 25

Events-A-Commin’:

From GLang’s ‘Notes’

Wolfeboro, Jan. 26:  The Poets in the Attic host an open mike at the Country Bookseller, 7-9 p.m. (Gordon or Cheryl Lang, 539-4472 or poetsintheattic.gmail.com ).

Newmarket, Jan. 26: Story Slam at Crackskull’s, 7:00 p.m. (http://seacoaststoryslam.org/ )

Manchester, Jan. 26: Slam Free or Die, features, with open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , facebook.com/slamfreeordie  )

Plymouth, Jan. 26: Features plus an open mike at Mark's Speakeasy Café, 7:30 p.m. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marks-Speakeasy-Cafe/134484503276180 ,  603-536-2757)

This Just In:

Rochester NH , Feb 2nd Writer's Night at the Portable Pantry on Hanson St. The feature performer for the evening will be award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and designer,Stephanie Piro. http://thesixchix.com/  Sign-ups start at 6, our feature begins at 6:15, followed by a short break. After the break we begin the open mic portion.  http://www.portablepantrynh.com/

Born:

January 25

Robert Burns (1759-21 July, 1796) Scotland's national poet(Auld Lang Syne)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/42.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=title&query=583

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment

     Though fickle Fortune has deceived me,

     She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill;

     Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me,

     Yet I bear a heart shall support me still.

     I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able,

     But if success I must never find,

     Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome,

     I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1279/1279-h/1279-h.htm#2H_4_0025
Seldon Connor 1839 -1917 Brigadier General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5893381
Charles Curtis 1860 - 1936 (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008

http://www.vpcharlescurtis.net/

W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965 English novelist and poet

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

Adeline Virginia Woolf nee Stephen (1882- March 28, 1941),English modernist novelist and Bloomsbury member(Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse)

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

http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/
Diego Valeri 1887- Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/diego-valeri-dlb/

Kitahara Hakushū, (1885 - 1942) Japanese poet and children's writer
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kitahara-Hakushu/110510142304305
Yojiro Ishizaka, (1900 - 1986) Japanese writer

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yojiro-Ishizaka/111081318916659
Edwin Newman, 1919 –Aug.13,2010 NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment)

http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000022753/

Paavo Haavikko (1931-October 6,2008) Finnish poet, essayist, dramatist, and fiction writer

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

http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-and-twenty-by-paavo-haavikko.html

Kathleen Tynan Halton, 1937 –Jan 10,1995 Canadian  writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12392009

David Grossman 1945- Israeli novelist, journalist, and children's storywriter

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

http://en.qantara.de/wcsite.php?wc_c=9209

John Cooper Clarke, 1946 - English punk-poet

http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/poemlist.html
Gloria Naylor (1950), US novelist the American Book Award- best first fiction (Women of Brewster Place)

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/naylorGloria.php

http://www.nndb.com/people/104/000047960/

Passed:

January 25

Robert Burton (02/08/1577 – 1640) English writer

http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Robert%20Burton

from The Anatomy of Melancholy

When I recount love's many frights,
My sighs and tears, my waking nights,
My jealous fits; O mine hard fate
I now repent, but 'tis too late.
No torment is so bad as love,
So bitter to my soul can prove.
All my griefs to this are jolly,
Naught so harsh as melancholy.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/

Dorothy Wordsworth, (  -1855)  English prose writer

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28880/28880-h/28880-h.htm

Joseph Wheeler II ( Sept 10,1836 -1906) Confederate General
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jwheeler.htm

Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé) ( 01/01/1839 – 1908) English writer

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Marie+Louise+De+la+Ram%C3%A9e%22

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7049

Al Capone Jan 17,1899-1947 Chicago gangster

http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/capone.html

Ava Gardner  (12/24/1922 –1990)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001257/

Herbert Eugene Caen, 1997 - columnist,

http://twitter.com/HerbCaen

Manuel António de Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 - 2005) Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist

http://manuel-lopes.blogs.sapo.cv/

http://rattle.com/blog/2010/04/there-is-a-hole-in-my-living-room-by-manuel-paul-lopez/

http://www.cryptojews.com/Porto_Synagogue.htm

SITES:

http://waywiser-press.com/ericadawson.html

http://www.powells.com/

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/index.html

http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/contest1.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/dickinsonaward

http://www.colrainpoetry.com/

History:

January 25

(1907) Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters

http://www.juliawardhowe.org/bio.htm

(1912) The New Age publishes imagist T. E. Hulme's collected works, five poems in all

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/173.html

Bonus Poem:

In The Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt

Salt is what
it all becomes.
Salt always did make me crave
sugar. If I could have turned and
looked back, like Lot's wife,
I never would have.
Turning is for other memories.

Memories are actually seasons
of homeless dreams.
The main event in life is something
we think we can plan, but can't.
A nest or fishnet of categories. Of hunger.
A need river, running wild in every
imaginable direction.

It would have all been salt, and me,
craving sugar.

                                                    by Carolyn Marie Rodgers (1940-2010)

http://www.ctadams.com/famous6.html