APRIL22

Events:

April 22 Portsmouth,  4-6 p.m. – Jazzmouth Festival — Early special event:  South and Vine Event: 359 Marcy Street (603) 430-2984 FREE. Wine, Cheese and Poetry reception/ fundraiser. Open to all. Click here

April 25 Farmington Goodwin Library Poet's Tea at 6:00 pm. Awards will be given out. There will be 4 guest poets and then, if there is time, open mike. Click here

April 26 Concord  Grace Mattern book launch reading from her new book, The Truth About Death and signing will be April 26, 7:00 at Gibson's Bookstore in Concord

April 27 Portsmouth, Jazzmouth Jazz Night  at The Press Room   ATTACK OF THE WOMEN OF JAZZMOUTH Jazzmouth Jazz Night  at The Press Room Celebrating  Women Musicians of the Seacoast featuring Cynthia Chatis Catherine Sikora Joanne Connolly Agnes Charlesworth w/ Swing a Cat special guests The Manchester Slam  Poetry Team, 8:00 pm. The Press Room 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH Click here

April 27 Goffstown  open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in the village area of Goffstown. Click here        Click here

April 26-29, 2012 Portsmouth Click here   Highlights of this years festival include special guests: David Amram • Eric Mingus  * XJ Kennedy • Lawrence Kraman  ALSO  at The Music Hall, screening of "The Manchurian Candidate” with composer David Amram present and “David Amram, the First 80 Years” at The Loft. Click here

April 28th. Portsmouth NH “Jazzmouth Young Writers Beat Night Festival”. If you wish to participate please contact: Click here or just show up at River Run books, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth NH by 10:40 am o    It is free and open to all area teens. Click here

4/28 Portsmouth at 1 PM. Riffing on the Rhythms of  Poetry THE JAZZMOUTH poetry workshop at the .Portsmouth Public Library Taught by .Annie Finch!

Discover one of the most powerful poetry tools for uniting body and spirit, idea and intuition. Express your inner poetic beats through drumming, movement, and voice. Participants will explore the fundamentals of poetic rhythm and will write and revise your own rhythmical texts. Suggested preparation: bring at least one poem, song, children's verse, or other rhythmic piece that has "stuck with you"-that you find impossible to forgetClick here

April 29, Portsmouth 11 am – 2 pm, Jazzmouth: Portsmouth Poetry and Jazz Festival, Sunday Brunch, The Library Restaurant/The Rockingham, Portsmouth Click here

April 30, Cambridge, MA: Franz Wright, author of the recent book Kindertotenwald, will read with Geoffrey Brock, author of the poetry collection Weighing Light, at the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. Tickets are $3 each and may be purchased 45 minutes before the reading. At 8 p.m., Blacksmith House (617-547-6789; Click here).

Time to plan a road-trip:

July 20, Farmington, Maine Western Maine Storytelling Festival Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:00 PM - Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:00 PMPlan a summer visit to Maine for the 2nd Annual Western Maine Storytelling Festival. Featured tellers will include Judith Black and Michael Cooper. Enjoy a showcase of regional tellers and area stories told by good talkers. Learn all about us at Click here          Contact: Phyllis Blackstone  Phone: 207-860-6622  Email: Click here

Born:

Apr 22

Henry Fielding (1707-Click here/1754)) British writer, playwright and journalist

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Joseph Warton (1722-February 23,1800) Eng Scholar ,teacher

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Click hereImmanuel Kant (1724-Click here/1804)) German philosopher, professor of logic and metaphysics

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James Grahame Click here of Montrose (1765 – September 14, 1811) Scottish poet.

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Madame de Staêl Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein (1766- July 14, 1817)

French-Swiss writer, woman of letters, early champions of women's rights

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Click herePhilip James Bailey (1816 – 09/06/1902) English writer

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William Hopkins Morris 1827 -1900  Major General (Union volunteers),

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Vladimir Illich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 – 01/21/1924) Russian political leader

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Ellen Click here (1874 – 11/21/1945) US writer ; 1942 Pulitzer

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James Norman Hall (1887- July 6,  1951) American writer, best-known for the Bounty trilogy

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 07/02/1977) Russian writer

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 02/18/1967) US physicist

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Charles Hubert Sisson, Click here - 5 September 2003)  Brit author/poet (Christopher Homm)

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Jan de Hartog, 1914 –Sept 22 ,2002 Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)

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Virginia "Ginny" Doris Gerstenfeld,  Heinlein (1916 – Jan. 18, 2003),US Chemist/ wife of Click here,

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William Jay Smith (1918) USA Poet

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Click hereClick here  (1922 – Click here/1979)  US bassist, composer

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Adam Raphael, 1938 – May,99 English journalist and author
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Jason Miller, Click here - Click here, Click here Scranton PA, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day)

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Louise Elisabeth Click here (1943-  ) American Click here. Wild Iris (1992), Pulitzer Prize,12th US Poet Laureate /Click here in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000.  

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  Circe's Torment

I regret bitterly
The years of loving you in both
Your presence and absence, regret
The law, the Click here
That forbid me to keep you, the sea
A sheet of glass, the sun-bleached
Beauty of the Greek ships: how
Could I have power if
I had no wish
To transform you: as
You loved my body,
As you found there
Passion we held above
All other gifts, in that single moment
Over honor and hope, over
Loyalty, in the name of that bond
I refuse you
Such feeling for your wife
As will let you
Rest with her, I refuse you
Sleep again
If I cannot have you.

from Meadowlands. © 1986 by Louise Glück.

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Click here (1946 – ) US director

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Gielijn Escher, 1945 - Dutch postage stamp artist

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Ana María Shua, Click here - Argentine poet,novelist

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Passed:

Apr 22

Click here  (Click here/1499 –1566)   French mistress (of George II)

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Georg Stiernhielm, Click hereClick here Click here , Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules)

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Denis Davydov, 1784-Click here Russian general and poet

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T.homas H.aynes Bayly (10/13/1797 –1839) English writer

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Kathe Kollwitz (07/08/1867 –1945) German artist

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Ansel Adams (02/20/1902 – 1984) US photographer

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Denis Pitts, (January 6, 1930 –1994) Click here, film-maker and novelist.

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Richard M. Nixon (01/09/1913 – 1994) US President (37), VP (36)

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1905 –1995)  US Gray Panther
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Erma Bombeck (02/21/1927 –1996) US humorist

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1939 –2002)  US porn star ("Deep Throat")

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Felice Bryant, (Aug.7, 1925-2003 ) American songwriter With her husband Boudleaux, wrote most of the Everly Click here' big hits: "Bye Bye Love," "Problems," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Wake Up Little Susie," and "Bird Dog."

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1912 –2003)  US congress (MI)

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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 –1957) S African Poet

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                Mass at Dawn

I dropped my sail and dried my dripping seines
Where the white quay is chequered by cool planes
In whose great branches, always out of sight,
The nightingales are singing day and night.
Though all was grey beneath the moon’s grey beam,
My Click here in her new paint shone like a bride,
And silver in my baskets shone the bream:
My arms were tired and I was heavy-eyed,
But when with food and drink, at morning-light,
The children met me at the water-side,
Never was wine so red or bread so white.

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History:

Apr 22

1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI

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1970 - Flat Earth celebrated

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1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)Click hereClick here
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Bonus Poem:

        Advice to a Girl


No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed;
Lay that on your heart,
My young angry dear;
This truth, this hard and precious stone,
Lay it on your hot cheek,
Let it hide your tear.
Hold it like a crystal
When you are alone
And gaze in the depths of the icy stone.
Long, look long and you will be blessed:
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.

                                           by Sara Teasdale

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