Feb.. 24

Events Coming-up:

February 25 Portsmouth Workshop,Concert/Music & poetry     http://pplp.org/BurningwiththeWord.htm

February 25 Peterborough, NH 7 to 9:30 pm at the Sharon Arts Center 30 Grove Street & Depot Square, Peterborough, NH 03458  Poetry Readings at Good Neighbor Series    Three Northampton, MA poets–Wendy Xu, Mark Leidner, and Ted Powers–will readThere is a $6 suggested donation and wine and light refreshments will be served.http://www.sharonarts.org/     http://www.facebook.com/events/315130535205423/

zachary.zalman.gmail.com   (603)924-7256

Born:

February 24

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V  (1500 – 09/21/1558)  king of Spain /Roman emperor   ( it was Charles who officially pronounced Martin Luther an outlaw and heretic.)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03625a.htm
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) Librarian, literary historian, and with Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=Wilhelm+Grimm+

Samuel Lover (1797 – 07/06/1868) Irish writer (Handy Andy, an Irish Tale)

http://www.nndb.com/people/988/000097697/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=2365

George William Curtis (1824 – 08/31/1892) US writer

http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/curtis_george_william.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=GEORGE+WILLIAM+CURTIS

Edward Dickinson 1811-10/21/1861Baker Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23419
John Crawford Vaughn 1824 1875Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

 http://www.civilwarnews.com/reviews/2009br/august/vaughn_gordon_b080910.html
1827 Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Winslow Homer 1836 -September 29, 1910) American landscape painter and printmaker, (Gulfstream)

http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (, 1848 – October 25, 1899) Canadian science writer, author and novelist (Woman Who Did)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=1452

Rosalia de Castro (1837 – 06/15/1885) Spanish writer

http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/castroA.html

http://www.rosalia--de--castro.webs.com/

George Augustus Moore (1852 – 01/21/1933) Irish novelist /confessions and memoirs,

http://www.noumenal.com/marc/moore/

Honus Wagner  (1874 – 12/06/1955)   US baseball player

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wagneho01.shtml

August William Derleth (1909- 1971)  U.S. poet and writer, (1909). (Judge Peck Mysteries)

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

Zachary Scott  (1914 – 10/03/1965)   US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779923/
Weldon Kees (1914-55  ) US painter, poet and short story writer

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/weldon-kees

                                 The End Of The Library

When the coal
Gave out, we began
Burning the books, one by one;
First the set
Of Bulwer-Lytton
And then the Walter Scott.
They gave a lot of warmth.
Toward the end, in
February, flames
Consumed the Greek
Tragedians and Baudelaire,
Proust, Robert Burton
And the Po-Chu-i. Ice
Thickened on the sills.
More for the sake of the cat,
We said, than for ourselves,
Who huddled, shivering,
Against the stove
All winter long.

http://www.poemhunter.com/weldon-kees/poems/

David Mourao-Ferreira 1927 - 16 June 1996) Portuguese poet/politician

http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Mour%C3%A3o-Ferreira/105613229473157

http://runfromanthropologists.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/my-life-its-a-spiral-stair-with-no-banister/

Michael Harrington (1928 – 07/31/1989) US socialist/author (Fragments of Century)

http://www.nndb.com/people/050/000115702/

Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan 1931-May 15, 1995 Koun teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/TaizanMaezumi.html

http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/RatingsZ.htm

George Harrison (1943 – 11/29/2001) English musician, singer, songwriter (Beatles)

http://rockhall.com/inductees/george-harrison/

http://www.gh-lyrics.com/

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-yie9&va=George+Harrison+cars

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-harrison-p4444

Alain Prost 1945 - France, Formula 1 race driver (1985, 86, 89, 93) & current team owner

http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/prost_bio.htm

Rupert Holmes (1947 – ) English songwriter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392035/

Maxine Chernoff, (1952 ) US poet, novelist, and short story writer

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181396

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2010/02/_embedded_in_the_language.html

Steven Jobs  (1955 – 10/05/2011)  US entrepreneur

http://vault.fbi.gov/steve-jobs

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Michelle Shocked (1962 – ) US singer, songwriter

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michelle-shocked-p5417

Elizabeth Alexander 1962 an African-American writer, and educator

http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html

http://www.elizabethalexander.net/poems.html

Passed:

February 24

Georg C. Lichtenberg (07/01/1742 -1799) German writer

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

Richard Hovey (1864-1900) USA Poet

http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/richard_hovey.htm

To A Friend

ALL too grotesque our thoughts are sometimes. Odd,
That there will come a day when you and I
Shall not be you and I! that we shall lie-
We two-i' the damp earth-mould-above each clod
A drunken headstone in the neglected sod-
Thereon the phrase, 'Hic Jacet,' carved awry,
And then our virtues, Bah! and piety-
Perhaps some cheeky reference to God!
And haply after many a century
Some spectacled old man shall drive the birds
A moment from their song i' the lonely spot
And make a copy of the quaint old words-
They will then be quaint and old-and all for what?
To fill a gap in a genealogy.

http://www.poemhunter.com/richard-hovey/poems/

Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867 - 1947), American journalist, author, editor, Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. and suffragist

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=197

Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne]1971- 1958 French poet

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00769

http://www.americanpoems.com/ItemId/1113959436/image

H. Allen Smith (12/19/1906 –1976) US writer

http://www3.telus.net/pagerweb/hallensmith/index.htm

http://www.nndb.com/people/943/000167442/

Robert L. oyd Fish 21 August 1912-1981 US mystery Short story Writer

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12988

Tennessee Williams 1911-83 US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931783/

Malcolm Forbes (08/19/1919 –1990) US publisher

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Forbes-Malcolm.html

Johnnie Ray  (01/10/1927 –1990)  US singer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712877/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnnie-ray-p3142

George Gobel  (05/20/1919 –1991)  US comedian

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323597/
Webb Pierce Aug 8,1921-1991 US country singer (Bye Bye Love)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/webb-pierce-p113270

Dinah Shore  (02/29/1916 –1994)  US singer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794918/

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dinah-shore-p3148

Henny Youngman  (01/12/1906 –1998)  US comedian

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950267/

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 –2006) American science fiction writer,

http://www.scifidimensions.com/Jun04/octaviaebutler.htm

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?186

Sites:

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/impact-of-one/

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

http://www.hcn.org/

http://boyswithbeardswithcats.tumblr.com/archive

http://thegossiplady.blogspot.com/

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/30/why-we-were-all-wrong-about-trudeau/

http://palacetheatre.org/event-listing/

http://www.cornerhouseinn.com/

Bonus Poem:

June Inside You

Oh, how like a clock the lover lost its
Numbers the longer you looked at it, until each phantom.
Tick of its innermost mechanism heralded possession.
And the mercurial sensation that something was slipping.
Away from you, until what once was your seduction device.
For measuring time had now become your myth: Abandonment.
To lead you, said the clock, said the lover, we must leave you.
And when there was no hope, when the wild horse watched you.
From the death field, you stood, frozen and alone, the black.
Willows ticking, this is your failure. Stop. This is your blossoming.

Tessa Rumsey

http://www.epoetry.org/issues/spring01/poetry.html