APRIL19

Events:

April 19, Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or Click here)

April 19, Effingham – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Writers' Night - Features -Poets Sarah Acott and Liz Jones followed by open mike (Click here,  539-7694, Click here , or Click here )

April 19, Portsmouth - 7-9pm – Press Room, Portsmouth – Beat Night – Features followed by open mike (431-5186, Click here )

April 19, Durham NH  7-8 pm [National Poetry Month] University of New Hampshire Art Gallery, Durham NH AMBUSHED BY POETRY: No Second Takes II an encore of 9/15/11 event; book release reading for The Bird Catcher, with Mike Anniccharico, Prof. of Theory and Composition and jazz pianistNo Second Takes II² is part of Mr. Albert¹s two-year,multi-part Poet Laureate project under the umbrella of ³Ambushed by Poetry.²It is sponsored by the UNH Art Gallery, Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program,which will be providing light refreshments, and Moon Pie Press, publisher of Mr. Albert¹s anthology. Click here ]

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Roger Sherman, Click here -93, signer (Decl of Ind, Constitution)

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Louis Amédée Achard, (Click here - 1875) French novelist

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Click hereMortimer Dormer Leggett (1821 – January 6, 1896) US lawyer, school administrator, Click here, and Click here of the Click here during the Click here.
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Click here (1823- May 10, 1910  ) Click here Welsh Anglican Hymnist/poet “Hymns and Meditations” "In Heavenly Love Abiding"

Tender Mercies, on my Way

1Tender mercies, on my way

2 Falling softly like the dew,

3Sent me freshly every day,

4 I will bless the Lord for you.

5Though I have not all I would,

6 Though to greater bliss I go,

7Every present gift of good

8 To Eternal Love I owe.

9Source of all that comforts me,

10 Well of joy for which I long,

11Let the Click here I sing to Thee

12 Be an everlasting song.

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Ricardo Bacchelli, 1891 -1985 Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)

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Edith Clara Summerskill (1901 – 02/04/1980) English politician, physician, writer

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CELL SONG

Night Music Slanted
Light strike the Click here of sleep. I alone
tread the red circle
and twist the space with speech

Come now, etheridge, don't
be a savior; take your words and scrape
the sky, shake rain

on the desert, sprinkle
salt on the tail
of a girl,

can there anything
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Lani Guinier 1950- . African-American Jewish educator, author, administrator and activist

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Dar Williams, 1967 - American musician and songwriter

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Passed:

Thomas Sackville,1536- 1608 Earl of Dorset, poet, Lord Treasurer of England,

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Queen Christina, Click here/1626 –1689) Swedish royalty

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George, (Gordon), Lord 6th Byron (of Rochdale) (Jan. 22, 1788 -1824) Romantic poet and satirist

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Vasili A Zjukovski, 9th February,1783-Click here Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus)Click here
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Click hereBenjamin Disraeli, (Click here/1804 –1881) 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/ English Prime Minister (29) novelist

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Charles Darwin (02/12/1809 – 1882) English scientist

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John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840  -1893) Eng poet & literary critic

The Pursuit of Beauty

Man's soul is drawn by beauty, even as the moth

By flame, the cloud by mountains, or as the sea,
Roaming around earth's shore incessantly,
Ebbs with the moon and surges with her growth;

And as the moth singes her wings in fire,

As clouds upon the hillsides melt in rain,
As tides with change unceasing wax and wane,
Nor in the moon's white kisses quell desire;

So the soul, drawn by beauty, nothing loth,

Burns her bright wings with rapture that is pain,
Faints and dissolves or e're her goal she gain,

Flies and pursues that unclasped deity,

Fretful, forestalled, blown into foam and froth,
Following and foiled, even as I follow Thee!

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William Hope Hodgson, 15 November 1877 -1918

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Henry John Newbolt Click here, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray)
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Click here  (Click here/1876 –1967) Chancellor, German Republic

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Daphne Du Maurier, (Click here/1907 –1989)English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn)

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Octavio Paz, 1914- Click here Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate

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History:

1954 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78^th

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Bonus Poem:

   WORKING OUT ON THE SCHUYLKILL

The river is the place to flex your muscles.
Rowers work their sculls toward the bridge
while the sound of metal weights comes clanging
from the boathouse where their teammates are
lifting and laughing and the path beside the street
is busy with runners working up a sunny afternoon sweat.
It takes two buses and ninety minutes to get here,
but once the weather breaks it's time to train,
and today I've brought along Mr. Emerson; he and I will sit
in the fresh greeny grass between the rowers and runners.
The heavier the book, and the more reps,
the quicker the road to success.

                                          Louis McKee

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