June 20 

Events:

June 20 Rochester NH Portable Pantry writers night Sign-ups are from 6 to 6:15. Our feature Jon Shutt. Reading from Blood Red Dawn- his new book inspired by  his  service in Iraq and Afghanistan begins at 6:15, after which there will be a short break and the open mic portion of the program. Please;original poetry, prose, or music. Close at 8 PM. Portable Pantry at 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH. (Pat O’Brien, 332-6357)

June 20,Concord, 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured reader Michael Cantor followed by open mic,  27 S. Main St., hosted by Don Kimball (Click here)

June 21 Portsmouth - 7-9pm - Press Room , "Larry Doesn't live Here anymore Beat Night" All Open Mic (followed by the open mic with Tammi Truax 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth - Beat Night (431-5186)

June 21st Effingham Writers' Night at Effingham Public Library features Kay Morgan,author of , Beyond the Notches:  Stories of Place in New Hampshire’s North Country ,followed by Open Mic opportunity for writers /musicians (5 min. limit). Please come and bring your writing or music to share.Light Refreshments. The Library is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham.  Contact: Katie McCarthy 651-9796

June 21 Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, Click here ,  Click here  )

June 21 Portland Port Veritas reading series.  "Local Sprouts”  650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (Click here)

Born:

June 20

Click here, (1674-6-Dec-1718) English dramatist and poet laureate Editor of William Shakespeare

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Click here (1743 – Click here/1825) English writer, poet, and editor

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from EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN.

Oft shall the strangers turn their eager feet
The rich remains of antient art to greet,
The pictured walls with critic eye explore,
And Reynolds be what Raphael was before.
On spoils from every clime their eyes shall gaze,
Ægyptian granites and the Etruscan vase;
And when midst fallen London, they survey
The stone where Alexander's ashes lay,
Shall own with humbled pride the lesson just
By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

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Dorothy Ann Thrupp, 1779- December 14, 1847 , English devotional writer

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Click here (1824 – Click here/1907) US senator (AL)

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Click here (1858-Click here/1932), African-American novelist The Conjure Woman

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) German artist, typographer and writer

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Donald Edward Keyhoe,  1897-29 November 1988, US  Click here Click here author Click here

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Click here  (1905 – Click here/1984)  US writer / playwright Little Foxes

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Click here  (1909 – Click here/1959)  US actor Robin Hood

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Lilian Jackson Braun (1913 – June 4, 2011   American writer

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Audie Murphy  1924-May 28,1971   WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
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Click here  (1924 – Click here/2001)  US guitarist, singer, producer (Me & My Guitar)

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Click here 1931-   US Actress

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Click here (1936 – ) US writer

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Brian Wilson 1942-  US singer (Beachboys-In My Room)

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Anne Murray 1945 - Canada, singer (Snow Bird)

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Click here 1949 US Singer/Songwriter

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Click here, 1951-  Irish poet Moy Sand and Gravel

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Click here (1952-) Click here poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer & memoirist.It's the birthday of poet Click here (Click here), born in Portadown, Northern Ireland (1951). He said of his childhood: "The place was County Armad, about halfway across northern Ireland, an apple growing district where some of the people who had been planted there in the Elizabethan era had come from Warwickshire and brought with them their apple plants, but also much of the language, which William Shakespeare was using and which was fossilized where I was brought up." He published his first book, New Weather (1973), when he was 21 years old, and he has published more than 30 collections since then. His most recent book is Maggot (2010). (Click here)
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Click here  (1952 – )  US actor

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Click here  (1967 – )  Australian actor  

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Passed:

June 20

James Clarence Mangan  Click here-Click here -1849 Irish Poet O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire

Shapes and Signs

I SEE black dragons mount the sky,
I see earth yawn beneath my feet -
I feel within the asp, the worm
That will not sleep and cannot die,
Fair though may show the winding-sheet!
I hear all night as through a storm
Hoarse voices calling, calling
My name upon the wind-
All omens monstrous and appalling
Affright my guilty mind.

I exult alone in one wild hour -
That hour in which the red cup drowns
The memories it anon renews
In ghastlier guise, in fiercer power -
Then Fancy brings me golden crowns,
And visions of all brilliant hues
Lap my lost soul in gladness,
Until I awake again,
And the dark lava-fires of madness
Once more sweep through my brain.

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Click here (Click here/1830 –1870) French writer,

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Click here 13-Jun-1878-1945 Playwright Storm in a Teacup

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Click here (Click here/1870 –1965) US economist /Coined the term Cold War

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Ira Louvin, April 24,1924 -1965 country singer (Louvin Brothers)

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Click here  (Click here/1883 – 6/20/1984) US actor

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Click here (Click here/1904 –1999) US writer, radio host

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Click here 14-Sep-1929-2005 Author Is Paris Burning?

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History:

AD 451 The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of Click here sur Marne, took place between a coalition led by the Click here general Click here and the Click here king Click here against the Click here and their allies commanded by their leader Click here.
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1914 the first issue of the radical arts magazine, Blast, was published.

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Bonus Poem:

Unity

I DREAMED that life and time and space were one,

And the pure trance of dawn;

The increase drawn

From all the journeys of the travelling sun,

And the long mysteries of sound and sight,

The whispering rains,

And far, calm waters set in lonely plains,

And cry of birds at night.

I dreamed that these and love and death were one,

And all eternity,

The life to be

Therewith entwined, throughout the ages spun;

And so with Grief, my playmate; him I knew

One with the rest,--

One with the mounting day, the east and west--

Lord, is it true?

Lord, do I dream? Methinks a key unlocks

Some dungeon door, in thrall of blackened towers,

On ecstasies, half hid, like chill white flowers

Blown in the secret places of the rocks.

Violet Jacob

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Quote:

 (From the dark regions of my cranium )

“Reality is subject to annotation”

{Wicked …creative…annotation!}

     -SLManning