Jan. 31

Events:

Portland, Jan. 31: Port Veritas reading series. Blue, 650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

Events THIS WEEK:

2/1/		7PM		Cafe Espresso, 738 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH		Ayanna Gallant & Mckendy Fis-Aime and an open mic mailto: info.pplp.org

Feb. 1 Washington  Birthday Celebration for Langston Hughes,   Langston Hughes was a prolific writer of poems, plays, novels, columns, essays and short stories that portrayed and celebrated the lives of African Americans. The 110th birthday of the illustrious Hughes (1902-1967) will be honored at the Library of Congress with a reading of his work by Washington, D.C. Whittall Pavilion on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick and Evie Shockley, who will also discuss Hughes’ influence on their own poetry. Items from the Library’s collection on Langston Hughes will be on display.   http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-002.html

Rochester, Feb. 2: Features, followed by open mike at Portable Pantry, 6:00. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357, patobrien.yahoo.com )

Dover, Feb. 2: Primal Tongue – features and open mike prose at Adelle’s Coffeehouse, (Josiah Eikelboom, 205-6192, jeikelboom.osiail.com)

Manchester, Feb. 2: Slam Free or Die, feature, with open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com, facebook.com/slamfreeordie)

2/3		7PM		Gibsons Books, 27 S Main St., Concord, NH		Betsy Sholl will read

Exeta  2/3/ 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:

January 31

Robert Morris 1734-1806 US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/morris_r.htm

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813), French-American essayist

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/creve.html
William Raine Peck 1818  - 1871 Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8724

James Gibbons Huneker (1860 – 02/09/1921) US critic

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/276568/James-Gibbons-Huneker

Rupert Hughes 1872 – 09/09/1956) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400912/

Zane Grey (1872-1939) American Western writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/zgrey.htm
Eddie Cantor 1892 –Oct 10 1964  New York City NY, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)

http://eddiecantor.com/bio.html

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (1893 – 05/09/1993) French-born English writer

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Freya-Stark/108091462552073

Marie Luise Kaschnitz, 1901 - October 10, 1974 ) German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet.

http://www.kaschnitz.de/sites/homefr.html

Alva Myrdal 1902 – 1 Feb 1986) Swedish sociologist and politician.(Nobel Peace Prize-1982)

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1982/myrdal-bio.html
 Tallulah Bankhead 1903-68  Huntsville AL, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000845/

John O'Hara (1905 – 04/11/1970) US novelist and short-story writer

http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/ohara_john_pa.htm

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/john-ohara/

Thomas Merton (1915 – 12/10/1968) American Trappist monk, essayist, and poet

http://edge.net/~dphillip/Merton.html

Follow my ways and I will lead you
To golden-haired suns,
Logos and music, blameless joys,
Innocent of questions
And beyond answers.
For I, Solitude, am thine own Self:
I, Nothingness, am thy All.
I, Silence, am thy Amen.

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/M/MertonThomas/index.htm#PoemList

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-james-merton

Alan Lomax (1915 – 07/19/2002) US musicologist

http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_index.php

http://www.folkstreams.net/filmmaker,121

Jackie Robinson (1919 – 10/24/1972) US baseball

http://www.jackierobinson.com/about/bio.html

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinja02.shtml

Norman Mailer  (1923-11/10/2007) US writer; two Pulitzer Prizes: for The Armies of the Night (1968) and for his non-fiction novel The Executioner's Song (1979).

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537551/

Rudolf Mossbauer 1929  Germany, physicist (Nobel 1961)” A miniature Mössbauer Spectrometer, named (MB) MIMOS II, was used by the two rovers in NASA's Mars Exploration Rover missions”
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/mossbauer-bio.html
 Ernie "Mr Cubs" Banks 1931-  Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (1st baseman)

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=bankser01

Oe Kenzaburo (1935) Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobelist

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oe.htm
 Ajip Rosidi 1938- Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/08/06/ajip-rosidi-a-great-man-culture.html

Claude Gauthier, 1939 - Canadian singer and songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/claude-gauthier-p334760

Steve Karmen, 1937 - Bronx NY, jingle writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439766/

http://books.google.com/books?id=fmiW7VDVLNQC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Bronx+High+School+of+Science+Steve+Karmen&source=bl&ots=dXeivodPv0&sig=l_KG428IkCZ-TxGs6xitwgdE9hg&hl=en&ei=kaD2Sbn0K4yjtgevo-2fDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=Bronx%20High%20School%20of%20Science%20Steve%20Karmen&f=false

Johnny Rotten   (1956 – )   English singer (Sex Pistols, PiL

http://www.johnlydon.com/jlbio.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-sex-pistols-p5396

It's the birthday of short-story writer and novelist John O'Hara (books by this author), born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (1905), one of the most popular serious writers of his lifetime. He wrote many best-selling novels, including Appointment in Samarra (1934) and A Rage to Live (1949). Many critics consider his best work to be his short stories, which were published as the Collected Stories of John O'Hara (1984). (less)

It's the birthday of Norman Mailer (books by this author), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (1923). He was studying engineering at Harvard when he was drafted into the Army in 1944. He served in the Philippines and Japan. After his discharge, he moved to New York City and spent 15 months writing a novel about the war. It was The Naked and the Dead (1948), and it became the definitive literary novel about World War II, and made Norman Mailer famous at the age of 25. He went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes: for The Armies of the Night (1968) and for his non-fiction novel The Executioner's Song (1979). (less)

Passed:

January 31^st

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 –1606), Eng, rebel-belonged to a group who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/guy_fawkes

Jean (de) Mairet (May 10, 1604 –1686) classical French dramatist /wrote both tragedies and comedies.

http://www.amazon.com/Th%C3%83%C2%A9%C3%83%C2%A2tre-complet-French-Jean-Mairet/dp/2745317814

Bernard Barton  (1784-1849) English Poet and Hymnist

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/barton01.html#2
Hamilton Rowan Gamble ( 1798 -1864)  US judge/Governor of Missouri (1861-64)

http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/governors/gamble/index.html

John Galsworthy (08/14/1867 –1933) English writer and playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932

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

                Past

The clocks are chiming in my heart
Their cobweb chime;
Old murmurings of days that die,
The sob of things a-drifting by.
The clocks are chiming in my heart!

The stars have twinkled, and gone out--
Fair candles blown!
The hot desires burn low, and wan
Those ashy fires, that flamed anon.
The stars have twinkled, and gone out.

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-galsworthy/poems/

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/galsworthy-bio.html

Jean Giraudoux (10/29/1882 –1944) French writer

http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Theatre/Giradoux/giradoux.shtml

http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=jean&last=Giraudoux&middle=

Eddie Slovik   February 18, 1920 -1945 1st US soldier executed for desertion since Civil War at 25

http://www.nndb.com/people/370/000096082/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071477/

Mahatma Gandhi (10/02/1869 –1948) Indian political, religious leader

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

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html

A(lan) A.(lexander) Milne (01/18/1882 –1956) English writer

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

http://www.just-pooh.com/milne.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=730

Samuel Goldwyn (08/27/1882 –1974) US film producer( MGM)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326418/

Francis Reginald Scott (Aug 1,1899- 1985) Can Teacher, lawyer, Diplomat, & Poet /Translator

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/index.htm

Jack Douglas (07/17/1908 –1989) US comic, writer

http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Douglas/e/B001HN388K

Pierre Boulle, 1912-1994 - French writer (Executioner)

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

Gil Kane, Eli Katz (April 6, 1926- 2000,Latvian-American comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050920075707/http://www.ramonschenk.nl/gilkane/gilkanechecklist.htm

Gordon R. Dickson (11/01/1923 –2001 ) Canadian writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/gordon-r-dickson/

Molly Ivins (08/30/1944 –2007) US writer

http://www.nndb.com/people/975/000027894/

Kage Baker (June 10,1952-2010) American science fiction and fantasy writer.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2201

Sites:

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

http://wolfeborochamber.com/

http://archive.itvs.org/democraticpromise/

http://www.bu.edu/agni/index.html

http://www.pw.org/magazine

http://www.bedardphoto.com/

http://www.hennikerbookfarm.com/

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/48/driskell_m.html

Bonus Poem

 The Consolation

                                                                                                  W.B. Yeats (1865–1939).

 Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

http://www.bartleby.com/147/35.html