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Events:

April 3 Moultonborough -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro – Featuring Eleanor Corliss  followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)

April 4, Portsmouth– 7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth Poetry Hoot -Mike Albert Book release for The Bird Catcher & Poet Laureate’s Choice  followed by open mike (7724345,Click here ). 738 Islington St.,

April 5 ,Portsmouth  An Evening of Poetry and Music with poet, Diana Durham andcellist, Dorothy Braker. spoken word with the voice of the cello7-8PM  Free and open to the public.Portsmouth Library, Levenson  Community Room  Click here

April 5, Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here)

April 5, Rochester – 6:30 p.m. – Portable Pantry, Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

April 6, Exeter – 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Features Deep Hole Road is string band followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or Click here )

April 6, Concord: Marilynne Robinson, author of When I Was a Child I Read Books, and Paul d Harding, author of Tinkers and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s 2011 Writers’ Day keynote, will have a conversation on-stage. Both authors are Pulitzer Prize winners. At 7 p.m., Capitol Center for the Arts (603-224-0562; Click here)

April 13, Portsmouth  6-8 p.m., Discover Portsmouth Center, 8 Islington St., Portsmouth, Ambushed by Poetry: Brick Project Kickoff for John-Michael Albert's poet laureate project to place three cycles of poetry in public spaces around downtown Portsmouth throughout the summer. Light refreshments.

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April 3

Click here  (1593 – Click here/1633)  English writer /metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)

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Click here   (1764 – Click here/1831)   English surgeon
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Click here  (1783 – Click here/1859)  US writer, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist.
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Charles D Wilkes 1798 -1877 Commander (Union Click here)

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Click here  (1822 – Click here/1909) US religious leader /author (Man without a Country)
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William Marcy "Boss" Tweed 1823-April 12, 1878)   corrupt NYC political boss

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James Bell 1826-1902 black poet, laborer and abolitionist

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John Burroughs 1837- March 29, 1921 writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)

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Downy came and dwelt with me,
Taught me hermit lore;
Drilled his cell in oaken tree
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Architect of his own home
In the forest dim,
Carving its inverted dome
In a dozy limb.

Carved it deep and shaped it true
With his little bill;
Took no thought about the view,
Whether dale or hill.

Shook the chips upon the ground,
Careless who might see.
Hark! his hatchet's muffled sound
Hewing in the tree.

Round his door as compass-mark,
True and smooth his wall;
Just a shadow on the bark
Points you to his hall.

Downy leads a hermit life
All the winter through;
Free his days from jar and strife,
And his cares are few.

Waking up the frozen woods,
Shaking down the snows;
Many trees of many moods
Echo to his blows.

When the storms of winter rage,
Be it night or day,
Then I know my little page
Sleeps the time away.

Downy's stores are in the trees,
Egg and ant and grub;
Juicy tidbits, rich as cheese,
Hid in stump and stub.

Rat-tat-tat his chisel goes,
Cutting out his prey;
Every boring insect knows
When he comes its way.

Always rapping at their doors,
Never welcome he;
All his kind, they vote, are bores,
Whom they dread to see.

Why does Downy live alone
In his snug retreat?
Has he found that near the bone
Is the sweetest meat?

Birdie craved another fate
When the spring had come;
Advertised him for a mate
On his dry-limb drum.

Drummed her up and drew her near,
In the April morn,
Till she owned him for her dear
In his state forlorn.

Now he shirks all family cares,
This I must confess;
Quite absorbed in self affairs
In the season's stress.

We are neighbors well agreed
Of a common lot;
Peace and love our only creed
In this charmèd spot.

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Click here (1898 – Click here/1967) US publisher

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Click here  (1898 – Click here/1981)  US actor -Entertainer, composer, songwriter ("My Mother's Eyes"), producer and actor
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Herb Caen (1916 – 02/01/1997) US columnist

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Click here  (04/03/1921 – Click here/2004)  US actor

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Click here  (1924 – Click here/2004)  US actor
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Click here  (1924 – )  US actor

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Click here (1928 – Click here/2003) US songwriter  ("Oh Lonesome Me")
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Click here  (1942 – )  US singer
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Richard Thompson 1949 songwriter /vocalist/guitarist (Shoot out the Lights)

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Click here  (1953), U.S. writer -children's books  Hippos Go Berserk, Chocolate: The Consuming Passion and Philadelphia Chickens (2002)
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Click here  (1958 – )  US actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)

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Eddie Murphy  (04/03/1961 – )  Click here (Click here) (Saturday Night Live, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
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Today is the birthday of novelistClick here (Click here), born in Baltimore (1924) author of the best-sellingExodus (1958). The movie was directed by Otto Premin (Click here)

It's the birthday of San Francisco columnistClick here (Click here), born in Sacramento (1916) whose column in theSan Francisco Chronicle began in 1938, when he (Click here)

Passed:

April 3

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Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852 –1915), Click here author and playwright

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Robert Bridges (Oct.23,1844-1930) Brit Poet

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MY Delight and Thy Delight

MY delight and thy delight
Click here, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:

My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
Leaping live, and laughing higher:

Thro' the everlasting strife
In the mystery of life.

Love, from whom the world begun,
Hath the secret of the sun.

Love can tell, and love alone,
Whence the million stars were strewn,
Why each atom knows its own,
How, in spite of woe and death,
Gay is life, and sweet is breath:

This he taught us, this we knew,
Happy in his science true,
Hand in hand as we stood
'Neath the shadows of the wood,
Heart to heart as we lay
In the dawning of the day.

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Click here (Click here/1876 –1933) US writer

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Click here (Click here/1875 – 1950) US historian "father of black history"

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Ira B. Wilson, 1950 American hymnwriter. "Make Me a Blessing" (aka "Out of the Highways and Byways of Life").

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Click here (Click here/1905 –1971) US mystery writer (as "Ellery Queen," with Click here)

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Click here (Click here/1904 –1991) English writer

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Frank G Wells, 1931-94 - US director (Walt Disney)

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Click here  (Click here/1927 –1996)  1st black mayor of a major US city /US mayor (Cleveland)
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Bonus Poem:

I Don't Feel At Home Where I Am

I don't feel at home where I am,
or where I spend time; only where,
beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,
that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,
you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,
turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone,
to pebbles and sand . . . where life's mean-
ing lies buried, that never let one
come within cannon shot yet.
From cloud-covered wells untold
pour color and light, a fete
of cupids and Ledas in gold.
That is, silk and honey and sheen.
That is, boon and quiver and call.
That is, all that lives to be free,
needing no words at all.

                                                                            by Regina Derieva

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