Feb.. 6

Events:

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

Born:

February 6

Christopher Marlowe  (1564 – 05/30/1593) English writer

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/216.html

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

Samuel Butler (1612-80) Eng poet

http://www.poemhunter.com/samuel-butler/

Anne Stuart 1665 - July 31st 1714.   Queen of England  (1702-14)

http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/anne.html

Henry Fuseli (1741-April17,1825) Swiss painter, poet, critic, and teacher

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

http://artaumonde.blogspot.com/2010/10/henry-fuseli-1741-1825.html

Marcellus Monroe Crocker 1830- Aug 26,1865) Brigadier General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=5894300&page=gr
John Brown Gordon 1832 –Jan 9,1904 Major General (Confederate Army)

http://www.factasy.com/civil_war/southern_leaders/john_brown_gordon.shtml

George Herman  “Babe’ ) Ruth (1895 – 08/16/1948) US baseball player

http://www.baberuth.com/

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml

Melvin B[eaunorus] Tolson (1898-1966), U.S. native, African American poet, journalist, and dramatist one-time Poet Laureate of Liberia

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/tolson/bio.htm
Louis Nizer (1911 – 11/10/1994) English-US lawyer ,author
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/louis_nizer.html

http://www.nndb.com/people/752/000117401/

Ronald Reagan  (1911 – 06/05/2004)  US actor, President (40) )

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/facts.html

Mary Nicol Leakey 1913-Dec9,1996  Brit. palaeontologist

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Leakey-Mary.html

Louis Dudek (1918) Can Poet

The Creative Element

The love I have in me comes rising in great waves

tossed at your mighty

small magnificent body, the floss of it

a heavy foam, tossed

at your belly and shoulders till it overwhelms

you, I feel it overwhelms you,

most beautifully, and makes an ocean around you.

Kiss me, kiss me now in this element! This

is what they say started things,

this is how they created whales and things

rolling it in a sea of storm,

overwhelmed and swirling in the fertile fury

when the gods took chaos in hand.

http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/poems/article_34.shtml

Zsa Zsa Gabor  (1919 – )  Hungarian celebrity

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001248/
Patrick MacNee 1922-  London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/

Pramoedya Ananta Toer  1925-200619 Indonesian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and critic.

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

Keith Waterhouse (1929 –Sept 4,2009 )  English writer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/columnist-255/Keith-Waterhouse.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913961/

Mamie van Doren  (1931 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886638/

Francois Truffaut (1932 – 10/21/1984) French director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000076/
Tom Brokaw  (1940 – )  US telejournalist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111232/

Bob Marley  (1945 – 05/11/1981)  Jamaican singer, guitarist, reggae icon

http://www.bobmarley.com/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-marley-p2907

Kate McGarrigle, 1946 –Jan 18,2010 Canadian singer and songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kate-mcgarrigle-p174990

Deborah Digges  (1950- April 10, 2009) American poet and teacher.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-deborah-digges27-2009apr27,0,7880540.story

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/digges/poem.html

Michael Pollan (1955),US  Journalist/ author of the popular books The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)

http://michaelpollan.com/

Axl Rose  (1962 – )  US singer (Guns'n'Roses)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741730/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/axl-rose-p120182

Passed:

February 6

King Charles II  (05/29/1630 –1685)  English royalty England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/charles_ii_king.shtml

Joseph Priestly  (03/13/1733 –1804) England/US theologist/philosopher/chemist

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/priestley.html

Ebenezer C Brewer 1897-10 May 1810 British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/ebenezer-c.-brewer

Gustav Klimt (07/14/1862 – 1918) Austrian painter/cartoonist, artist

http://www.gustavklimtcollection.com/

Emma Frances Dawson (1851-1926)

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dawson%2C%20Emma%20Frances

Robert Brasillach, 31 March 1909 -1948 French author/nazi collaborator

http://worldatwar.net/biography/b/brasillach/index.html

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=178819

Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 –1958), English-born playwright and novelist

http://www.charleslmorgan.org/

To America

http://www.bartleby.com/266/7.html

Marghanita Laski ((24 October 1915 –1988) English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5425
Barbara Tuchman  (01/30/1912 – 1989) US writer, historian ( Pulitzer) (Guns of August-Pulitzer),

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

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/tuchman.html

Danny Thomas  (01/06/1914 –1991)  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858683/

Arthur Ashe  (07/10/1943 –1993)Af-American tennis
  http://www.cmgww.com/sports/ashe/

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/biography.html

Jack Kirby  (08/29/1917 –1994)  US cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk)

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12817

http://www.pigdogproductions.com/jack%20kirby.html

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 –1995) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies; also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3154/the-art-of-poetry-no-31-james-merrill

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/217

Carl Wilson  Dec 1,1946-1998  rock vocalist (Beach Boy)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/carl-wilson-p21451

Ken Olsen  (02/20/1926 –2011)  US businessman, DEC founder

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379678,00.asp

Sites:

http://www.followthemoney.org/database/uniquecandidate.phtml?uc=14687

http://www.toadbooks.com/

http://magazine.lotuscars.com/blog/

http://webpages.charter.net/hobblebush/

http://www.silasgriffith.com/

History:

February 6

(1826) James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, second in his “Leatherstocking” series, was published on this day*

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=483

(1915) The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man"

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1091

(1939), Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep was published on this day*

http://www.detnovel.com/BigSleep.html

(1956) —The Last Hurrah Edwin O’Connor’s novel, based on Irish-American politics in Boston, was published on this day*

http://kellehm.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-last-hurrah-by-edwin-oconnor/

* TInLit

Bonus Poem:

                                                 Moon

Then are you the dense everywhere that moves,
the dark matter they haven't yet walked through?

No, I’m not. I’m just the shining sun,
sometimes covered up by the darkness.

But in your beauty—yes, I know you see—
There is no covering, no constant light.

                                          by Annie Finch

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/annie_finch/biography