Feb.. 9

Events:

February 9, Durham: The UNH Writers Series will present Tom Haines, who has twice been voted Travel Journalist of the Year twice by the Society of American Travel Writers. At 5 p.m., MUB 1, University of New Hampshire (603-862-1313).

Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Katie Frank Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )

This Just In:

February 10, Rochester…6:45 pm-  Hey, What’s the Story?   with storyteller  Pat Spalding- currently a majorette with the Leftist Marching Band and a recovering puppeteer,

 Dinner and dessert are available during the performance. Admission is free; donations accepted for the featured  teller. For more information, contact Joanne at 603-335-1760.  The Portable Pantry ` 12 Hanson St., Rochester, NH ` 603-948-2035   Joanne Piazzi, storyteller- Host, Storytelling in the Pantry, 2nd Fridays at the Portable Pantry, Rochester, NH ; member ArtEsprit; LANES - League for the Advancement of NE Storytelling: www.lanes.org

Born:

February 9

Daniel Bernouilli, 1700-84 Swiss mathematician

http://www.mathematik.ch/mathematiker/daniel_bernoulli.php

C. F. Constantin François de Chassebœuf , comte de Volney (1757 – 25 April 1820, French philosopher

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1397/1397-h/1397-h.htm

Frans Michael Franzén (1772-1847) Finnish-Swedish poet, journalist, educator, and bishop

http://runeberg.org/authors/franzenm.html

William Henry Harrison  (1773 – 04/04/1841)  US President (9) for a month

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamhenryharrison

Vasily Vasili A Zjukovski Zhukovsky, (1783 - 1852) Russian folk poet/translator

http://www.russianlegacy.com/en/go_to/culture/poetry/zhukovsky.htm
 Samuel Jones Tilden  1814-  philanthropist for New York Public Library
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtilden.htm’
John Alexander Logan 1826  - 1886 Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/john_logan.html

Lord Edward Carson   (1854 – 10/22/1935)  Irish statesman

http://www.freewebs.com/lordcairn/Carson.htm

Sir Anthony Hope-Hawkins  (1863 – 07/08/1933)  English writer

http://www.online-literature.com/anthony-hope/

Mrs. Patrick Campbell  (1865 – 04/10/1940)  English actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132742/

George Ade (1866 – 05/16/1944) U.S. journalist, playwright, and humorist

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/digit/exhibits/ade/

Natsume Soseki  (1867-1916) Japanese novelist and essayist, a master of psychological fiction.

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

Amy Lowell, (1874 – 05/12/1925) US writer/poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-lowell

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/435

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/lowell.htm

The Poet

What instinct forces man to journey on,

Urged by a longing blind but dominant!

Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt

His never failing eagerness. The sun

Setting in splendour every night has won

His vassalage; those towers flamboyant

Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt

His daylight wanderings. Forever done

With simple joys and quiet happiness

He guards the vision of the sunset sky;

Though faint with weariness he must possess

Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;

He spurns life's human friendships to profess

Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/alowell1.html

James Stephens (1882 – 12/26/1950) Irish writer

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/82937.James_Stephens

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=670

Jacques Bainville, 1879 -1936  French historian/essayist/journalist

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=568

Dean Rusk  (1909 – 12/20/1994)  US secretary of state

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

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1024

Daniel Berrigan (1921) Poet, priest, teacher and war protester- Lamont Prize 1957

Some

                                 (to the Plowshares 8, with love)

Some stood up once, and sat down.
Some walked a mile, and walked away.

Some stood up twice, then sat down.
“It’s too much,” they cried.
Some walked two miles, then walked away.
“I’ve had it,” they cried,

Some stood and stood and stood.
They were taken for fools,
they were taken for being taken in.

Some walked and walked and walked –
they walked the earth,
they walked the waters,
they walked the air.

“Why do you stand?” they were asked, and
“Why do you walk?”

“Because of the children,” they said, and
“Because of the heart, and
“Because of the bread,”

“Because the cause is
the heart’s beat, and
the children born, and
the risen bread.”

http://www.nukeresister.org/some-by-daniel-berrigan/

http://ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-voices/20th-century-ignatian-voices/daniel-berrigan-sj/

Bill Veeck  (1914 – 01/02/1986)  US baseball player, owner
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7b0b5f10

Gypsy Rose Lee   (/1914 – 04/26/1970)  US actor and entertainer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497346/

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5686
Brendan Francis Behan (1923 – 03/20/1964)  Irish writer

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

http://www.irelandseye.com/irish/people/famous/behan.shtm

Roger Mudd, 1928 - Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)

http://www.nndb.com/people/014/000023942/

Frank Frazetta, 1928 – May 10, 2010 American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers,

paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292547/

http://frankfrazetta.net/
J.M. J.ohn M.axwell Coetzee  (1940-) South-African novelist, critic, and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

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

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/j-m-coetzee/

Carole King (1942 – ) US songwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005580/

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C15?exhibitId=15
Alice Walker (1944- ), U.S. novelist and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple (1982)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alice-walker

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/486

http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3091&Itemid=0

Mia Farrow  (1945 – )  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001201/

Janet Issaca Ashford, 1949 - U.S. Childbirth writer

http://www.amazon.com/Janet-Isaacs-Ashford/e/B000APA0S2

http://books.google.com/books/about/Natural_love.html?id=J7ZsAAAAMAAJ

Mary Jo Duffy, 1954 - American comic book writer and editor

http://www.comicvine.com/mary-jo-duffy/26-51725/

Brian Greene  (1963- ), US theoretical physicist

http://www.nndb.com/people/282/000044150/

Passed:

February 9

Dr. John Gregory, June 3,1724-1773,  Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/gregory_john.htm

Jean François de Saint-Lambert, 1716- 1803 French poet

http://www.visitvoltaire.com/e_saint_lambert.htm

Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, 1774-1824 German poet

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20041003_emmerick_en.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10866/pg10866.html

Dionysios Solomos, 1798- 1857  Greek poet of the Greek national anthem

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dionysios-Solomos/108111235884426

http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/books/dionysius-solomos

Fyodor Dostoievski (10/30/1821 –1881) Russian writer

http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar   (06/27/1872 –1906) US writer

The Debt

This is the debt I pay

Just for one riotous day,

Years of regret and grief,

Sorrow without relief.

Pay it I will to the end --

Until the grave, my friend,

Gives me a true release --

Gives me the clasp of peace.

Slight was the thing I bought,

Small was the debt I thought,

Poor was the loan at best --

God! but the interest!

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/108.html

http://www.dunbarsite.org/biopld.asp

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar

James Gibbons Huneker (01/31/1860 –1921) US critic

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/james_gibbons_huneker/

Norman Douglas (12/08/1868 –1952) Austrian writer

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1484

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

Sophie Tucker  (01/13/1884 -1966)  American singer and actress

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876008/

Leon R. Yankwich  (09/25/1888 – 02/09/1975)  US judge (CA)

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2670&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - 1979) American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate LoC Consultant in Poetry, 1943 – 1944

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/16

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/tate/tate.htm

Art

When you are come by ways emptied of light
You'll say goodby, in that indifferent gloom,
To the quick draughts of old, yet with polite
Anguish of pride recall as an heirloom
A dawn when stars dropped gold about your head
And, so amazed, you knew not were you dead.

For, brother, know that this is art, and you
With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,
Have your own vanishing slit of light let through,
Passionate as winter, where only a few may come:
Not idiots in the street find out the lees
In the last drink of dying Socrates.

http://www.poemhunter.com/allen-tate/poems/

Tom Macdonald, 1900- 1980  Welsh journalist and novelist

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tom-Macdonald/e/B001KIGC30/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1/277-8231206-0555918

Kurt Herbert Adler   (04/02/1905 –1988)  Austrian opera director

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kurt-adler-q9407

J. William Fullbright  (04/09/1905 –1995) US Rep (Arkansas)

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1652

http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/fulbright.html

Halldór Kiljan Laxness, 1902-98 - Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate

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

Princess Margaret  (08/21/1930 –2002)  English royalty

http://www.biography.com/people/princess-margaret-9398749

Christopher Hyatt July 12, 1943- 2008 –U.S. Occultist, Philosopher and Author

http://originalfalcon.com/dvd-radical_undoing_vol6.php

Jazeh Tabatabai, 1931- 2008 Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor

http://www.caroun.com/Painting/IranPainting/JazehTabatabai/JazehTabatabai.html

Sites:

http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/index.html

http://tamworthlumber.com/localmusic.htm

http://www.houseofblues.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/nyregion/excerpts-poems-from-left-handed-by-jonathan-galassi.html?_r=1

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16325

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/competition/national-finals

http://www.48hoursatsebring.com/

http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.2/following-the-oregon-trail-digitally-and-on-foot?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email

Bonus Poem:

The Return From Town

As I sat down by Saddle Stream
To bathe my dusty feet there,
A boy was standing on the bridge
Any girl would meet there.

As I went over Woody Knob
A youth was coming up the hill
Any maid would follow.

Then in I turned at my own gate,—
And nothing to be sad for—
To such a man as any WIFE
Would pass a pretty lad for.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

http://www.poemhunter.com/edna-st-vincent-millay/poems/