June 28

Events:

June 28,Concord, 7pm - Gibson's Bookstore in Concord - featured reader Andrew Merton reads from , Evidence That We Are Descended From Chairs. Join us for an evening of poetry as Andrew Merton reads and signs his new volume of verse. Click here  27 S. Main St., hosted by Don Kimball (Click here)

June 28,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 28,Portland Port Veritas reading series.   "Local Sprouts  , 650 Congress Street. 7-10pm  (Click here )

June 28,Wolfboro 4th Thursday of the month - 7-9pm - The Country Bookseller, Durgin Stables, N. Main St., Wolfeboro - Poets in the Attic - open mike (Click here or 539-4472)

Born:

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Click here  (1703 – Click here/1791)  English religious leader

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 07/02/1778) French writer, philosopher, political theorist

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Click here (1844-10 August 1890) Click here-born poet, journalist and fiction writer )

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Click here (1867 – Click here/1936)  Italian playwright Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore Nobel 1934
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Richard Rodgers (1902 – 12/30/1979) US composer -Pulitzer 1950.

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Ashley Montagu (1905 – 11/26/1999) English anthropologist

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Click here (1909- October 22 ,1998) English suspense author

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Mel Brooks (1926 – ) US actor, director

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Click here 1937- Radio Personality ‘Click & Clack’

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Voelcker, Hunce 1940- Poet, Biographer, Novelist

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Muhammad Yunus, 1940 - Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace

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Gilda Radner (1946 – 5/20/1989) US comic actor

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Robert L Asprin, 1946 -2008 US, sci-fi writer

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Peter Abrahams (1947- ) American writer of crime Click here.

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Click here (1947) , US  storywriter and novelist Winter's Tale

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Click here  (1958) US poet and novelist

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John Cusack (1966 – ) US actor

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Passed:

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Click here (Click here/1751– 06/28/1836) US President (4)

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Click here (29 October 1815-1904) organized the first black minstrel company, the Virginia Minstrels; reporter, soldier. Songwriter Dixie

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Velimir Khlebnikov,Oct 28, 1885-1922 Russian poet

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Edward Carpenter,Aug 29, 1844- 1929 English poet

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SO THIN A VEIL

O thin a veil divides

Us from such joy, past words,

Walking in daily life--the business of the hour, each detail seen to;

Yet carried, rapt away, on what sweet floods of other Being:

Swift streams of music flowing, light far back through all Creation shining,

Loved faces looking--

Ah! from the true, the mortal self

So thin a veil divides!

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Alfred Noyes (16 Click here, 1880-1958) Eng.Poet/Balladeer

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"IF I could whisper you all I know,"

Said the Old Fool in the Wood,

"You'd never say that green leaves grow.

You'd say, 'Ah, what a happy mood

The Master must be in today,

To think such thoughts,'

That's what you'd say."

"If I could whisper you all I've heard,"

Said the Old Fool in the fern,

"You'd never say the song of a bird.

You'd say, 'I'll listen, and p'raps I'll learn

One word of His joy as He passed this way,

One syllable more,'

That's what you'd say."

"If I could tell you all the rest,"

Said the Old Fool under the skies,

"You'd hug your griefs against your breast

And whisper with love-lit eyes,

'I am one with the sorrow that made the may,

And the pulse of His heart,'

That's what you'd say."

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Click here  (Click here/1924 –1975)  US writer
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Sterling E. Lanier (Dec18, 1927-2007) American editor, science fiction author and sculptor

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 R.I.P.

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 –June 26,2012)  American Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, and Click here.    Click here

six word biography:  "Secret to Life, Marry an Italian."  Click here

Bonus Poem:

         The Old Men Used to Sing

The old men used to sing
And lifted a brother
Carefully
Out the door
I used to think they
Were born
Knowing how to
Gently swing
A casket
They shuffled softly
Eyes dry
More awkward
With the flowers
Than with the widow
After they'd put the
Body in
And stood around waiting
In their
Brown suits.

                                     Annie Louisa Walker

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