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Events:

Dec. 1 7. Jaffrey NH     Audio Graffiti Poetry Series Pot luck at 7pm, poetry open mic at 8pm, followed by a feature poet. $3 at the door MindFull Books 29 Main Street Jaffrey NH Audio Graffiti Poetry Series- This month, Audio Graffiti is shaking things up. In addition to a poetry open mic and this month's feature, Hannah Galvin, there will also be a Christmas Present Slam. Any poet who wants to slam will get a Christmas present, but the winner of the slam will get to choose from everyone's present at the end. It's going to be a Yankee Swap, poetry-slam style!

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Born:

December 16

Click here  (1584 – Click here/1654)  English jurist

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Click here  (1770 – Click here/1827)  German composer
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Click here  (1775 – Click here/1817) English writer -novelist (Pride & Prejudice)

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Click here  (1787 – Click here/1855)  English writer / biographer

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Click here  (1863 – Click here/1952)  Spanish philosopher,/ writer / poet/humanist (Last Puritan)

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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter Click here than is heard.

A hidden light illumines all our seeing,
An unknown Click here enchants our solitude.
We feel and know that from the depths of being
Exhales an infinite, a perfect good.

Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow
And be not happy like a naked star,
Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow,
Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

Our heart strings are too coarse for Nature's fingers
Deftly to quicken as she pulses on,
And the harsh tremor that among them lingers
Will into sweeter silence die anon.

We catch the broken prelude and suggestion
Of things unuttered, needing to be sung;
We know the burden of them, and their question
Lies heavy on the heart, nor finds a tongue.

Till haply, lightning through the storm of ages,
Our sullen secret Click here from sky to sky,
Glowing in some diviner poet's pages
And swelling into rapture from this sigh.

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Click here  (1899 – Click here/1973) English writer - playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award)
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Click here, (1900-Click here/97) English writer,- literary critic/author (Myth Makers) -essayist, critic, novelist, and journalist

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Click here  (1901 –1978)  US anthropologist author, lecturer (Coming of Age in Samoa)

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Click here  (1905 – Click here/1996)  Danish poet/inventor

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Theodore Weiss 1916- April 15, 2003 American Click here, and literary magazine editor

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Click here  (1917 – Click here/08)  English scientist, writer -sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End) UK S/F Grand Master /futurist

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 Gordon  Randall Philip  David  Garrett 1927- 31 December 1987 US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)

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Philip K[indred] Dick (1928 – Click here/1982) US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner)

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Passed:

December 16

Wilhelm Grimm , 24 February 1786 -1859 , German folklorest-half of Grimm brothers - writer (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Jan . 10,1869-1916 ,Russian Click here and Click here monk - Click here and Click here.

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Elinor Wylie (1885-1928- )  U SA Poet /Eng Lost gen…

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Poor Earth

It is not heaven: bitter seed
Leavens its entrails with despair
It is a star where dragons breed:
Click here have a footing there.

The sky has Click here it out of shape;
The sun has strapped it to his wheel;
Its course is crooked to escape
Traps and Click here of stone and steel.

It Click here on air, and spins
Snared by strong transparent space;
I forgive it all its sins;
I kiss the scars upon its face.

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Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 –1933) Click here Click here and Click here

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Walter S. Martin,   -1935 Disciples of Christ clergyman, teacher and evangelist. He is remembered best today as composer of the hymn tune GOD CARES ("Be Not Dismayed, Whate'er Betide" a.k.a. "God Will Take Care of You").

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Click here  (Click here/1874 –1965)  English writer (Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage),

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Anthony Colin B Chapman , 9 May, 1928 -1982 England, formula 1 racer

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 Paul Castellano ,-1985, US /It. Organized-crime chief
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Dame Mary Durack 20 February 1913 —1994) was an Australian author and historian/ poet

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Bonus Poem:

Imagining You’d Come To Say Goodbye...

Imagining you’d come to say goodbye,
I made a doll of raffia and string.
I gave her thatch hair, and a broomstick skirt
of patchwork satin rags. Around each eye
I stitched thick lashes. Such a touching thing
she was! That even you could not debate –
impassive, undemanding and inert.
Yes, surely she’d cause you yourself to sigh.
Around her breast, I sewed a loden ring
to guard her cotton heart from being hurt,
then sat down in the fabric scraps to wait,
between the rafters and the furnace grate,
needle in hand, and never so aware
no craft on earth is master to despair.

                                                 Jennifer Reeser

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