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Sent: 10/20/2011 7:26:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Oct 20 Strafford Notes
 

 

 

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EVENTS:

 

Effingham, Oct. 20:  Writers Night – Features, followed by an open mike, at the Effingham Public Library, 7-9 p.m. (Click here, Katie McCarthy at Click here and 539-7694, or Marilyn O'Kelly at Click here and 539-1537).

 

Manchester, Oct. 20: Slam Free or Die – open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, Click here, Click here)

 

Portsmouth, Oct. 20: Beat Night – Features followed by open mike at the Press Room, 7-9 p.m. (431-5186, Click here)

 

 

This just in-

Concord, NH ,October 23, 7-9  p.m.  NH Book Festival:  U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will receive the second annual award of the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry, and  will read her poems. St. Paul's Church, Concord, NH, Tickets are $10 general admittance and $5 for students.            

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BIRTHDAYS:

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Click here   (1784 – Click here/1865)   English statesman

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Daniel Owen (1836 – 22 October, 1895), Click here Click here  

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Click here (1854 – Click here/1891)  French poet and adventurer

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Click here  (1859 – Click here/1952)  US educator, philosopher  

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Click here  (1882 – Click here/1956)  Hungarian actor

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Jelly Roll Morton Ferdinand Joseph Lamenthe ,1890-1941, . American jazz composer and pianist

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Will Rogers Jr. Click here-Click here Click here,   US Pol /actor  

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Leslie Purnell Davies (1914 – 6 January 1988) Click here Click here of Click here, Click here and Click here.

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Philip Whalen (1923-2002) US Zen Poet

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Robert Pinsky (1940- ) US Poet, critic former U.S. Poet Laureate

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Click here 1946- Austrian novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in literature in 2004 

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Click here  (1925 – Click here/2007)  US journalist - newspaper columnist and author

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Click here  (1928 – )  US Click here columnist

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Click here Daniel Nathan (1905 – Click here/1982)  US mystery writer ("Ellery Queen,"

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Click here  (1931 – Click here/1995)  US baseball great

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Click here  (10/20/1937 – )  US singer
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Click here  (1946 – Click here/1994)  US comic 

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Click here  (1953 – )  US singer, songwriter

 

         "Breakdown"

It's all right if you love me
It's all right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you running away
Honey, I've got the feeling you won't

There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do
We said all there is to say

Baby Breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I standin' here can't you see
Breakdown, it's all right
It's all right
It's all right

 

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Click here  (1972 – )  US rapper

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PASSED:

 

 

 

Click here   (Click here/1792 –1871)   English mathematician  

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Naim Frashëri, (1846- 1900 )  Albanian poet

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Click here  (Click here/1818 –1894)  English historian

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Click here  (Click here/1829 –1900)  US writer

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B[ithia] M[ary] Croker 1860? – 1920 British writer

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Click here  (Click here/1855 –1926)  US labor organizer

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Click here  (Click here/1866 – 10/20/1936)  US educator
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Click here  (Click here/1867 –1950)  US Secretary of War
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Click here  (Click here/1874 –1964)  US President (31))

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James Leo Herlihy , Click here novelist (Midnight Cowboy)

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Anthony Hecht, (1923-Click here   )  American poet

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After the Rain

 

                                                                                                               for W D Snodgrass

 

The barbed-wire fences rust

As their cedar uprights blacken

After a night of rain.

Some early, innocent lust

Gets me outdoors to smell

The teasle, the pelted bracken,

The cold, mossed-over well,

Rank with its iron chain,

 

And takes me off for a stroll.

Wetness has taken over.

From drain and creeper twine

It’s runnelled and trenched and edged

A pebbled serpentine

Secretly, as though pledged

To attain a difficult goal

And join some important river.

 

The air is a smear of ashes

With a cool taste of coins.

Stiff among misty washes,

The trees are as black as wicks,

Silent, detached and old.

A pallor undermines

Some damp and swollen sticks.

The woods are rich with mould.

 

How even and pure this light!

All things stand on their own,

Equal and shadowless,

In a world gone pale and neuter,

Yet riddled with fresh delight.

The heart of every stone

Conceals a toad, and the grass

Shines with a douse of pewter.

 

Somewhere a branch rustles

With the life of squirrels or birds,

Some life that is quick and right.

This queer, delicious bareness,

This plain, uniform light,

In which both elms and thistles,

Grass, boulders, even words,

Speak for a Spartan fairness,

 

Might, as I think it over,

Speak in a form of signs,

If only one could know

All of its hidden tricks,

Saying that I must go

With a cool taste of coins

To join some important river,

Some damp and swollen Styx.

 

Yet what puzzles me the most

Is my unwavering taste

For these dim, weathery ghosts,

And how, from the very first,

An early, innocent lust

Delighted in such wastes,

Sought with a reckless thirst

A light so pure and just.

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Sites:

 

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BONUS POEM:

 

                 Gold Leaves

Someone ought to write about (I thought
and therefore do) stage three of alchemy:
not inauspicious metal turned into
a gilded page, but that same page turned back
to basics when you step outside for air
and feel a radiance that was not there
the day before, your sidewalks lined with gold.

 

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Silver Roses
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