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19 Apr 2017


Poetry And The Creative Mind Day



Creative minds have led the way throughout all of histories innovations and growth. Through poetry and art, they challenge the idea of what’s possible, and shine a spotlight on the society that birthed them. Poetry And The Creative Mind Day is set aside to honor the bright and glittering jewels that are the minds of these creative pioneers. Most of us are introduced to poetry and art at an early age, whether it’s the nursery rhymes sung by our parents, or the combination of poetry and art in books like Dr. Suess and Shel Silverstein, the artist of Where the sidewalk ends.

Poetry and Creative Mind Day is a great time to dig up some of your favorite old poems and read them, or sing a favorite old nursery rhyme. If your talents lean more towards the physical mediums, you can take out your paints or pencils, or any other form of art you enjoy. If you’ve never been the creative sort, Poetry and Creative Mind Day is a great day to pick up that opportunities.

There are so many great ways to celebrate it, including memorizing old poems, or writing your own. If you’re the adventurous sort you can leave poetry in creative places today. You can leave snippets of poem on the inside of bathroom stalls on sticky notes, print them out and leave them on desks, drop inspirational poems in the collection bowls of the needy, or anywhere else. Poetry readings are another great way to celebrate, and are still a common sort of gathering of creative minds. If you can’t find a poetry reading, you can certainly try to organize one.

There are many ideas regarding the poets role in society, as the compressed nature of information in poetry tends to directly reach into the subconscious of a people. It creates imagery and evokes memories and emotions of events going on in and around people. It has been said that “writing is where thought meets impulse”, allowing the conscious mind to communicate with the subconscious. It is the opinion of some that it becomes the responsibility of the poet to use this communication to reveal the truth to those unable to see it.

Poetry comes in many forms, from William Shakespeare’s Iambic Pentameter, to the rigid structure of the Japanese Haiku, to the simple rhyming nature of children’s nursery rhymes, poems can come in many different forms. Take for instance acrostic poetry, that form by which a word of a person’s name is used to write poetry, using the letters of the first name to form the framework of the poem. If you’ve ever seen poetry done in a particular shape, such as a rainbow or tree, you’ve read examples of concrete poetry. And these are just a few of the hundreds of different types to be found throughout the world and its thousands of cultures.

For Poetry and Creative Mind Day, take your brain out, dust it off, and introduce it to the beauty of poetry again. Remember that we hear poetry every day, as every song on the radio is based off of a poem, called lyrics simply because they are placed to music. Poetry isn’t just for High School English and Liberal Arts classes, it is a very powerful and real way to express our thoughts and emotions and share them with our fellow man, or just get them out onto paper. Don’t let Poetry and Creative Mind day pass you by without writing one of your own, and maybe sharing it with others to encourage them to write their own!



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National Hanging Out Day



The future of the environment is in our hands and it´s the little actions that can make big differences. One simple way to save energy is to hang out your laundry instead of machine drying it. This idea has been diffused on Hanging Out Day since 1995, when the day was established to highlight the amount of energy that is wasted using electric clothes dryers. Electric clothes dryers can account for six to ten percent of energy consumption in a household. So hanging out your laundry to dry in the sun can really save a considerable amount of energy.

Hanging Out Day is celebrated by people hanging their laundry outside their homes in the open air, using the natural energy of the sun and wind to dry their clothes. You can join the celebrations and make your garden more colorful by hanging out your laundry too.

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April 19 Birthdays



James Franco - 39




Tim Curry - 71




Kate Hudson - 38




Jesse James - 48




Jayne Mansfield - (1933 - 1967) (34)








April 19th

2012: The Band drummer & singer Levon Helm died of throat cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 71 years old.

2002: Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley was found dead in his apartment in Seattle of a drug overdose. It was estimated that Staley had died on April 5th, two weeks before his body was discovered. He was 34 years old.

2001: David Lee Roth confirmed internet rumors that he briefly reunited with Van Halen the previous July and wrote new songs with Eddie Van Halen and that he had not been in contact with the band since then. Roth later rejoined Van Halen in 2006.

1999: Neil Young performed at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden, but the venue mistakenly billed him as Bob Dylan. During the concert, Young jokingly said “That was Bob playing guitar with me on the last song.”

1990: On BBC-TV’s French and Saunders show, a comedy courthouse sketch featured appearances by David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Gary Moore and Lemmy. The sketch ended with a jam by the musicians.

1980: R.E.M. performed their first concert as R.E.M. at the 11:11 Koffee Club in Athens, GA to an audience of 150 people.

1980: Judas Priest reached the top five of the U.K. Album Chart for the first time with British Steel which peaked at number four. It would also be their first album to reach the top forty of the Billboard 200 Album Chart peaking at number thirty-four in July of the same year.

1978: The Patti Smith Group released “Because the Night” which later went on to peak at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, making it Smith’s biggest hit in the U.S. Smith co-wrote the song with Bruce Springsteen.

1969: Steppenwolf peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Rock Me” which was their third and final top ten single in the U.S.



Birthdays:

Alan Price - Keyboardist for The Animals born in 1942