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Events:

September 13, Bristol, NH Click here 7:30pm until 9:30pm open mic for poets that would like to share their original work in a warm and welcome atmosphere! Sign-up will begin at 7PM. After the open mic, our featured poet, Christina Cook will perform! 2 Central Street, Bristol, NH 03222  Click here   Click here

September 13, Derry : · Sharon Olds, Featured Reader at the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series. Hyla Brook POET Robert Crawford follows, The program, held at the Robert Frost Farm, 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt28) in Derry, begins at 6:30pm and concludes with an Open Mic from 7:30-8:30pm.Free and open to the public. For info, email Robert Crawford at Click here , Click here

Every Thursday, 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  )

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

Sept 13, Washington D.C.  Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to Give Inaugural Reading As U.S. Poet Laureate, The reading, which will open the Library’s 2012-2013 literary season and kick off the 75th anniversary of the Poetry and Literature Center, will start at 7 p.m., in the Coolidge Auditorium on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Natasha Trethewey, is a poet-historian who gives voice to the forgotten with clarity and beauty .The reading is free and open to the public, and a book-signing and reception will follow. Tickets are not needed, but early arrival is strongly recommended. For more information, visit Click here .

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Samuel Wilson (1766- July 31,1854) supplier to US military in War of 1812  The label on his containers read “EA US” ) US =Uncle Sam/ Click here of the Click here.

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Countess Dubsky Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austria's premiere woman author

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Masaoka Shiki  Masaoka Tsunenori   ( 1867- Sept 9,1902) Japanese writer usually credited with reviving the traditional Japanese poetic form of haiku.

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Tanka 1

curtains drawn,
the emperor’s love
still lies abed—
on crimson peonies,
the morning sun shines

Tanka 3

The man
I used to meet in the mirror
is no more.
Now I see a wasted face.
It dribbles tears.

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                                              Haiku by Shiki

A mountain village

under the pilled-up snow

the sound of water.

Night; and once again,

the while I wait for you, cold wind

turns into rain.

The summer river:

although there is a bridge, my horse

goes through the water.

A lightning flash:

between the forest trees

I have seen water.

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Sonnet

So gentle and so modest seems my lady
to everyone to whom she bids good-day,
that every voice must, trembling, cease to speak
and eyes are not so bold to look on her.
Where'er she walks she hears her virtue told,
yet dresses kindly, in humility;
and so she seems a wondrous thing sent down
from heaven to earth to be a sign to men.

To all who see, so gracious is her charm,
that through her eyes, her sweetness strikes their hearts,
as those who have been struck alone can know:
and from her face there ever seems to come
a gentle spirit full of love which flies
into one's soul, and whispers simply: "Sigh!"

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Click here ( Jan 6,1859    - 1938 ) Australian Philosopher Space, Time, and Deity

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Bonus Poem:

She Is Standing