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AUGUST  2

Events:

Aug 2 ,  7 pm –11:20;  Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – 2012 SFOD Team Features and an SPECIAL open mike (647-9991 or Click here )

 

Aug. 2 , Portland, Maine, Maine Branches—four widely published poets* read and reflect on their Maine Connections:  Margo Taft Stever (Frozen Spring,Mid-List Press); Estha Weiner (In the Weather of the World, Salmon Poetry); Jo Ann Clark (The Paris Review); and John Perrault( Here Comes the Old Man Now, OysterRiver Press). AT: University of New England Art Gallery,716 Stevens Ave., Portland, Maine, Free, donations gratefully  accepted  5:00pm, 207-221-4499, Click here

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Aug 3, Laconia  Poet Charlotte Cox will read from her husband Larry L. Cox’s new book Close Encounters with the Common Loon , 6-8 pm  , Annie's Book Stop 1330 Union AveLaconia, NH 03246 (603) 528-4445 ·

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Aug. 11, Wolfeboro, Poet Charlotte Cox will read from her husband Larry L. Cox’s new book Close Encounters with the Common Loon ,  11a.m.-1 p.m.) at The Country Bookseller 23A Noth Main Street, Durgin Stables Wolfeboro,  NH 03894 603-569-6030 For custom orders: Click here

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Kaspar von Stieler, Caspar Stieler (1632-1707) soldier-poet and later a linguist. (Teutsche Wolredner)

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Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 1754 - June 14, 1825 Franch architect; laid out Wash DC

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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1834 –Oct.4,1904 Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)

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Mrs. Lucy W. K. Clifford 1846 – 21 April 1929), British novelist and journalist,

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Francis Marion Crawford, 1854- 9 April 1909 ,1909  British author

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Click here (1878- Nov 9,1956 ) Finnish writer /poet, femme fatale

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Click here (1892 – Click here/1978) US movie studio head

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Isabel Allende  ( 1942- )  Chilean /American  . memoir,  My Invented Country2003

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Click here Zhao Zhenkai (1949-  ) Chinese poet / US Prof.

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Teacher’s Manual

A school still in session
irritable restless but exercising restraint
I sleep beside it
my breath just reaching the next
lesson in the textbook: how to fly

when the arrogance of strangers
sends down March snow
a tree takes root in the sky
a pen to paper breaks the siege
the river declines the bridge invites

the moon takes the bait
turning the familiar corner
of the stairs, pollen and viruses
damage my lungs damage
an alarm clock

to be let out of school is a revolution
kids jump over the railings of light
and turn to the underground
other parents and I
watch the stars rise

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James Fallows, 1949 - American journalist The Atlantic Monthly magazine

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Gerald Suster (1951 - 3 February 2001 ) British historian, Click here writer, and novelist.

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Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, 24 April ,1846-1881 - Australian novelist and poet,  (His Natural Life)

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Helen Hoyt, (1887- 1972 - American poet

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Rain at Night

Are you awake? Do you hear the rain?
How rushingly it strikes upon the ground,
And on the roof, and the wet window-pane!
Sometimes I think it is a comfortable sound,
Making us feel how safe and snug we are:
Closing us off in this dark, away from the dark outside.
The rest of the world seems dim tonight, mysterious and far.
Oh, there is no world left! Only darkness, darkness stretching wide
And full of the blind rain's immeasurable fall!

How nothing must we seem unto this ancient thing!
How nothing unto the earth—and we so small!
Oh, wake, wake!—do you not feel my hands cling?
One day it will be raining as it rains tonight ; the same wind blow—
Raining and blowing on this house wherein we lie: but you and I—
We shall not hear, we shall not ever know.
O love, I had forgot that we must die.

 

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History:

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1740 Click here masque, Alfred the Great was first produced, in an open-air performance before the Prince and Princess of Wales. Amid the lessons on Alfred's greatness and the prophetic visions of future glory were seven songs; one of them, "Rule, Britannia!" was immediately popular, and is still the unofficial national anthem

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Bonus Poem:

“True Confessions"

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If I'd been a ranch, they would've called me the Bar Nothing.
Gilda, 1946

I can never get a zipper
to close. Maybe that stands
for something, what do you think?
I think glamour is its own
allure, thrashing and
flashing, a lure, a spoon
as in spooning, as in l'amour
in Scotland, where I once watched
the gorse-twisted hills unzip
to let a cold blue lake
between them. St. Augustine says
the reason why humans behave
as they do is because they are
not living in their true
home. In Rita Hayworth's
first film, for example, Dante's Inferno
is a failing Coney Island
concession, and Margarita Cansino
plays the part of Rita
Cansino playing herself. And the true
home of glamour, by which
I mean of course the grammar
of glamour, is Scotland
because glamour is a Scottish variant
of grammar with its rustle of moods
and desires. Which brings us back to
the zipper and why we want it
to close, each hook climbing another
the way words ascend a sentence, trying on
its silver suture like clothes. In a satin
strapless gown, Gilda slowly peeled off
her black arm-length gloves, showed
how to strip down, diagram a sentence: Put
the blame on Mame, boys. In 1946, a pin-up
of Rita Hayworth and the name Gilda
rode on the side of the atomic bomb
tested at Bikini Atoll; it was summer
and you could buy a record, hear the sound
of her beating heart. By her last
film, The Wrath of God, her hair was a burning
bush; she couldn't remember
her lines, whether it's memory or loss
we're in need of most: to remember
the way home or forget
who we are when we get there.
Every man I have known has fallen
in love with Gilda and wakened
with me. St. Augustine asked, But when I love you,
what do I love? He asked the earth
and the breeze, perfume, song,
flesh, the sun, the moon
and stars: My question was the attention
I gave to them, and their response
was their beauty.

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RIP:

Gore Vidol October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012

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