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Sent: 2/19/2012 7:18:28 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
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Feb.. 1 9

Event Coming Up :

Portsmouth, February 25- A Celebration of Contemporary Black Poetry

2:30-4:30 pm Afternoon Poetry Workshop: The Unlettered Muse:Poetry and the Creative Mind
(This will be a lively Click here led by Regie O’Hare Gibson, see below)

Seacoast African American Cultural Center • 8 Islington Street,Portsmouth NH 03801 • Click here

 

07:00 pm – 09:00 pm Evening Concert Presentation
Kemi Alabi - president of Click here's spoken word collective
Royaline Edwards - a retired educator, author and playwright.
Mckendy Fils-Aimé -Haitian-American slam poet four-time competitor National Poetry Slam,
Ernest “Scripture” Gibson III - a National Slam Poet,
Reggie O’Hare Gibson (afternoon workshop facilitator and evening feature)  Former National Poetry Slam Champion

 

Sponsors - Seacoast African American Cultural Center  Click here
                   - Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program [  Click here.

Organizers-  John-Michael Albert, 8th Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate  JoMichel.Albert.Comcast.net
                         & Ayanna Gallant-Teacher,poet,musician

Open and Free to the Public; FOR MORE Click here, CONTACT: John-Michael.Albert.Comcast.net

Born:

February 19

Click here, (1473 – Click here/1543) Polish astronomer

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Click here (1717-1779) actor, producer, and writer

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Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, (1722 – August 11, 1774), French author.

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Richard Cumberland , 1732-7 May 1811) was an Click here Click here and Click here.

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Vincenzo Monti, Click here –Oct 13,1828  Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)

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Click here1833-1906; 1902 Nobel peace prize winner Swiss writer and pacifist

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Charles Alexander Eastman (born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a; 1858 – Jan 8, 1939) Click here Click here, writer, national lecturer, and reformer

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Click here 1865- November 26, 1952 Swedish explorer of Asia, writer, and geographer,

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Click here Salas (1889-Dec 1, 1928) Click here lawyer and poet -Click here Click here.

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Click here (1896-1966), French surrealist founder and theorist, writer& poet;

co-founded the American surrealist magazine VVV

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Giorgos Seferis, Click here – Septr 20,71 Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat  Nobel Click here for Literature / 1963

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Lula Click here  (1917 – Click here/1967)  US writer (THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER 1940),

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Click here  (1924 – Click here/1987)  US actor

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Click here 1930- July 6,2002 American film director

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Click here 1936- December 8 ,1996 Romanian poet, playwright, novelist and essayist,

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Terry  Gene  Carr (1937 – April 7, 1987) Click here Click here Click here, author, editor, and writing instructor.

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Smokey Robinson, Click here - American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles-Tears of a Clown)

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Click here, (1941) U.S.poet and novelist

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Loud Music

 

My stepdaughter and I circle round and round.
You see, I like the music loud, the speakers
throbbing, jam-packing the room with sound whether
Bach or rock and roll, the volume cranked up so
each bass notes is like a hand smacking the gut.
But my stepdaughter disagrees. She is four
and likes the music decorous, pitched below
her own voice-that tenuous Click here of self.
With music blasting, she feels she disappears,
is lost within the blare, which in fact I like.
But at four what she wants is self-location
and uses her voice as a porpoise uses
its sonar: to find herself in all this space.
If she had a sort of box with a peephole
and looked inside, what she'd like to see would be
herself standing there in her red pants, jacket,
yellow plastic lunch box: a proper subject
for serious Click here. But me, if I raised
the same box to my eye, I would wish to find
the ocean on one of those days when wind
and thick cloud make the water gray and restless
as if some creature brooded underneath,
a rocky coast with a road along the shore
where someone like me was walking and has gone.
Loud music does this, it wipes out the ego,
leaving turbulent water and winding road,
a Click here stripped of people and language-
how clear the air becomes, how sharp the colors.

 

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Click here  (1952 – )  American-Chinese novelist

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Seal, Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Samuel 1963 - English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)

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Passed:

February 19

Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) Click here merchant and writer /poet

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Bernard Barton (1784-1849) Eng Spenserian Quaker poet

A FULL-BLOWN ROSE

 

 

A FULL-BLOWN rose, in beauty's pride,

By chance my wand'ring eye descried ;

Its dewy fragrance, scatter'd wide.

Perfumed the gales of morning.

 

When evening sunbeams tinged the sky,

I hasten 'd forth, again to spy

The charms which struck my roving eye

So early in the morning.

 

But ah ! its beauties all were flown !

And all its humid fragrance gone !

All that the sun had glanced upon,

So lovely in the morning.

 

Wither'd by the scorching heat,

It lay in fragments at my feet,

No more my happy sight to greet

On any future morning.

 

So short, so frail is beauty's reign !

Who can the pensive sigh restrain?

The longest date its charms can gain

Is but a summer's morning;!

Memoir, letters, and poems of Bernard Barton (1850)

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Click here  (Click here/1838-1916)  German scientist

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Click here (Click here/1869 –1951) French writer

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Click here  (Click here/1859 –1952)  Norwegian writer

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Click here  (Click here/1904 –1997) Chinese communist leader

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Sites:

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History:

February 19
1942, The Tuskegee Airmen were initiated into the US armed forces.

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Bonus Poem:

	A Farewell

 

Thou wilt not look on me?
Ah, well! the world is wide;
The rivers still are rolling free,
Song and the sword abide;
And who sets forth to sail the sea
Shall Click here with the tide.

Thrall of my darkling day,
I vassalage fulfil:
Seeking the myrtle and the bay,
(They thrive when hearts are chill!)
The straitness of the narrowing way,
The house where all is still.


                              -Alice Brown

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