Feb. 12

Manchester, NH   February 12th at 2 PM  Currier Museum, 150 Ash Street, Manchester, NH 03104   We are celebrating Valentine’s day on Sunday, February 12th at 2 PM at the Currier Museum with your original writings inspired by the 1897 painting, A Knock at the Door, by Laura Alma-Tadema. http://collections.currier.org/Obj51?sid=5561&x=37923        http://collections.currier.org/Obj51?sid=5561&x=37923

inspiredwords.currier.org     or call  Kim at 603-895-8627.

Events:[ this week]

Portsmouth, Feb. 13: Stone Pigeon – Features, followed by open mike, at Breaking New Grounds, 7-9 p.m. (stonepigeonpoetry.gmail.com and on Facebook)

February 13, Cambridge, MA: Blacksmith House Poetry Series will present Martha Rhodes, who will read from her new poetry collection, The Beds, and R. Dwayne Betts, author of Shahid Reads His Own Palm. Tickets are $3 each and may be purchased 45 minutes before the reading. At 8 p.m., Blacksmith House (617-547-6789; www.ccae.org).

Portland, Feb. 14: Port Veritas reading series. Blue, 650 Congress Street. 6:30pm  (gilhelmick.gmail.com)

Concord, Feb. 15:Neil English is featured, followed by open mike, at Gibson’s Books, 7-9 p.m. (www.gibsonsbookstore.com, Don Kimball, 224-0562, prisdon.comcast.net).

February 16, Plymouth: The Eagle Pond Author's Series will feature Simon Armitage, who has received wide acclaim for his translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reserve free tickets by calling (603) 535-2874. At 7 p.m., Smith Recital Hall, Plymouth State University (www.silver.plymouth.edu).

February 16, Effingham – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, - Writers' Night - Features followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, 539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us, or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com)

February 16, Portsmouth - 7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Features  :

Ryan McLellan, Ayanna Gallant, Jonathan   Stoker, and Heather Lessard

 followed by open mike (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )

February 16, Mamchester  Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com, facebook.com/slamfreeordie)

Born:

February 12

Thomas Campion (1567 – 03/01/1620) English writer, composer, physician

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/50.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/q1074

Gabriel Nauddè, littèrateur, 1600

Cotton Mather (1663- February 13,1728)  socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer

http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil//mather.htm

William Whitehead (1715 – 14 April 1785) English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757

http://www.archive.org/details/jenescaiquoi_0804_librivox

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (1777 – 23 January 1843) German writer

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1045

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?16358

Charles [Robert] Darwin (1809 – 04/19/1882) English naturalist and writer

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

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 04/15/1865) US President (12)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/435.html

http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540

George Meredith (1828 – 05/18/1909) English writer/ poet

Song in the Songless

1They have no song, the sedges dry,

2 And still they sing.

3It is within my breast they sing,

4 As I pass by.

5Within my breast they touch a string,

6 They wake a sigh.

7There is but sound of sedges dry;

8 In me they sing.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/221.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/george-meredith

Edward Forbes, naturalist, 1815, Douglas, Isle of Man

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861- February 5, 1937) Russian-German essayist, psychoanalyst, and novelist
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salome.htm

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 – 02/20/1980) US socialite, author, & wit

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/alice.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1656

General Omar Bradley (1893 – 04/08/1981) US military

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/omarnels.htm

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 07/01/1983) US engineer, architect

http://bfi.org/about-bucky/biography

Roberta Martin 1907 – January 18, 1969) African-American gospel singer, pianist, composer and publisher/ arranger and choral organizer

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/roberta-martin-gospels-true -voice

Paul Winterton Andrew Garve (1908-January 8, 2001,) [Roger Bax and Paul Somers] Prolific English short story and mystery writer
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/agarve.htm

J. Russell Lynes (1910 – 09/14/1991) US writer /editor of Harper’s

http://www.searchquotes.com/search/J_Russell_Lynes/

Alan Dugan (1923-09/03/2003) USA Poet - Pulitzer prize

http://www.nndb.com/people/638/000099341/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alan-dugan

Joe Garagiola  (1926 – )  US baseball player

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garagjo01.shtml

Bill Russell  (1934 – )  US basketball player

http://www.nba.com/history/players/russell_bio.html

Judy Blume ( (née Sussman;, 1938)  American author/ children's author

http://www.judyblume.com/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/judy-blume/

Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., (1939), American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-manzarek-p19144

http://www.thedoors.com/

Deborah Garrison (1965-). poet and editor - senior editor at The New Yorker

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2011/09/four-new-york-poems-by-deborah-garrison.html

http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/herman2/garrison.html

Christina Ricci  (1980 – )  US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000207/

Passed:

February 12

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - 1538) German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance

http://www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Altdorfer,+Albrecht

Elkanah Settle (January 1, 1648 –1724) English poet and playwright

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elkanah-Settle/111866025497606

Immanuel Kant , (04/22/1724 –1804) German philosopher

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

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08603a.htm

Alice Cary Alice and Phoebe CaryAlice Cary

Alice Cary

1820–1871 US Poet/ co-author

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

A Dream

I DREAMED I had a plot of ground,
Once when I chanced asleep to drop,
And that a green hedge fenced it round,
Cloudy with roses at the top.

I saw a hundred mornings rise, --
So far a little dream may reach, --
And Spring with Summer in her eyes
Making the chiefest charm of each.

A thousand vines were climbing o'er
The hedge, I thought, but as I tried
To pull them down, for evermore
The flowers dropt off the other side!

Waking, I said, "These things are signs
Sent to instruct us that 'tis ours
Duly to keep and dress our vines, --
Waiting in patience for the flowers.

"And when the angel feared of all
Across my hearth its shadow spread,
The rose that climbed my garden wall
Has bloomed the other side," I said.

                             Alice Cary [1820 - 1871]

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/pindx/blp_aindex_cary_alice.htm

Isabella Valancy Crawford (Dec 25,1850-87); Can Poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/85.html

Grant Wood (02/13/1892 –1942) US artist

http://www.crma.org/Content/Grant-Wood.aspx

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (10/15/1901 –1952) Spanish writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7396213

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418600/

Sal Mineo  (01/10/1939 –1976)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000543/

Jean Renoir (09/15/1894 –1979) French filmmaker

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719756/

Muriel Rukeyser (12/15/1913-80) USA Poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/muriel-rukeyser

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rukeyser-muriel

http://vault.fbi.gov/Muriel%20Rukeyser

Eubie Blake (02/07/1883 –1983) US songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blake-p6123

Charles M. Schulz (11/26/1922 –2000) US comic artist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776433/

Sites:

http://www.ccel.org/

http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-i-am-3/

http://salyardscenter.com/

http://mysecretboston.com/

Bonus Poem:

         Dithyramb

The more things change

the more they change, they change:

immortal impossible but

to live long enough

to revolve in the woods, a clearing,

eyes burning with pollen,

the birds enplumed in their trees

will fledge, one after another

night of cars’ bass vibrating, dopplerizing,

sirens screaming, fading,

a black cat there certainly crouching

under a bush

/ then I enter the poem,

and am immediately strong-armed

into a dark garage

where there are no shining mirrors,

no strains of deathless song,

and leering toughs make gestures

hierarchical and lost,

they claim they can define

everyone, that I’m this or a that,

a maker of cloudy cadence, couth—

but of course it’s bullshit

and I’m out along the leaves,

olive-green under the

streetlight lampglow,

the leaves, wet and slick

and always

moving

               by Michael S. Begnal

http://toddswift.blogspot.com/search/label/new%20poem?updated-max=2011-01-09T18:24:00Z&max-results=20