September  21

Events:

September 21 Rochester 4PM Book Bums. 8 Wallace St,  Book Bums Writer’s Open Mic

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September 15-September 30. The Vision & The Word,  National Poetry Week and 1000 Poets for Change. This is the 3rd year the EAC has hosted The Vision & The Word, the goal of which is to encourage artists and poets to cooperate in creating an original work of art consisting of a poem and a piece of art.. For more information: Click here .      Click here     Click here

A late note:

100 Thousand Poets for Change, Exeter, NH – Saturday, September 29th

One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change (100 TPC) and One Hundred Thousand Musicians for Change (100 TMC) will be held in Exeter, NH, Saturday, September 29th on the second floor of The Exeter Town Hall in conjunction with the poetry/art exhibit entitled “The Vision and the Word”.  The event will be held from 12-4 PM.  100 TPC and 100 TMC is a global event with the goal of celebrating the energy of the spoken word and music in a public forum.  Performances are being held in 115 Countries, 700 events are planned to occur on the same day.  The event in Exeter will be hosted by current Portsmouth Poet Laureate John-Michael Albert.  Other poets/musicians and poetry groups include John Perrault, Poets in the Attic, Diana Durham and Dorothy Braker, Julie Dickson, Nick and Sharon Pangaro, Phil and Sue Cassista, Pat O’Brien, Tabbalat, Cleone Graham, Tammi Truax, Ed Pacht, Joann Snow Duncanson, Jonathan Stoker, John Simon, Bill Burtis, and others not yet confirmed.  100 TPC and 100 TMC, Exeter is sponsored in part by Seacoast Peace Response, Veterans for Peace, The Poetry Society of New Hampshire, The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, and the Social Justice Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter. For more information, directions, e-mail: Click here or visit: Click here .

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Francis Hopkinson, 1737 - May 9, 1791 US, writer/lawyer (helped design Stars & Stripes)
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Sir Edmund William Gosse ( 1849 – 16 May 1928) English poet, translator/ LDS apostle and author and critic

Villanelle

WOULDST thou not be content to die

When low-hung fruit is hardly clinging,

And golden Autumn passes by?

Beneath this delicate rose-gray sky,

While sunset bells are faintly ringing,

Wouldst thou not be content to die?

For wintry webs of mist on high

Out of the muffled earth are springing,

And golden Autumn passes by.

O now when pleasures fade and fly,

And Hope her southward flight is winging,

Wouldst thou not be content to die?

Lest Winter come, with wailing cry

His cruel icy bondage bringing,

When golden Autumn hath passed by.

And thou, with many a tear and sigh,

While life her wasted hands is wringing,

Shalt pray in vain for leave to die

When golden Autumn hath passed by.

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Click here (1866 – Click here/1946) English writer

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Click here (1867 – Click here/1950) US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45

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Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (1895 -1925) The Witch

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Allen Lane, 1902 - 7 July 1970) English publisher/founder (Penguin Books)

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Click here  (1902-  Sept 11, 1973 ) Anthropologist Theories of Primitive Religion

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Click here (1912– Click here/2002) US animator

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Jay Ward, ( 1920 –Oct 12, 1989 ) cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle)

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Click here (  1928- Feb 3,20110F) rench-Caribbean poet, novelist, and philosopher L'Intention Poétique

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Click here (1929-  June 10,  2003) English moral philosopher

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Click here 1935-  Sept 14,2009 Actor Laugh-In

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Click here, (1944) actress and novelist-- she authored Fried Green Tomatoes

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Click here 1945-  Bombastic Movie Producer

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Click here  (1947 – ) US writer - Maine thriller/horror/suspense writer, aka Richard Bachman,

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Marsha Norman, 1947- ), American playwright and lyricist Pulitzer Prize

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Click here 1947- Guitarist for the Eagles

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Click here (1950 – ) US comic, actor (Click here)

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Click here 1953- Auto Racing Winner, 1990 and 1997 Indianapolis 500

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Click here 1954 – Scholar Why Societies Need Dissent

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Click here 1957 -   Film Director

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Click here  1963- baseball/  Hit 51 home runs in 1990

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Click here (Click here/0070 –19 BC) Roman writer The Aeneid
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George Read, Click here - US judge/signer (Decl of Independence)

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Click here (Click here/1788 –1860) German philosopher

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Joseph R Drake, Aug. 17, 1795-1820 -US poet (American Flag)Day Gradual Fades,

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Walter Scott, Sir (August 15, 1771-1832 -) Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe)

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Chief Joseph, 1840-Click here - US indian chief (Nez Perces),

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Click here (1857- 1909) Scot Poet, translator, novelist

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from War Song

In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song:
The race is to the swift;
The battle to the strong.

Of old it was ordained
That we, in packs like curs,
Some thirty million trained
And licensed murderers,

In crime should live and act,
If cunning folk say sooth
Who flay the naked fact
And carve the heart of truth.

The rulers cry aloud,
"We cannot cancel war,
The end and bloody shroud
Of wrongs the worst abhor,
And order's swaddling band:
Know that relentless strife
Remains by sea and land
The holiest law of life.
From fear in every guise,
From sloth, from lust of pelf,
By war's great sacrifice
The world redeems itself.
War is the source, the theme
Of art; the goal, the bent
And brilliant academe
Of noble sentiment;
The augury, the dawn
Of golden times of grace;
The true catholicon,
And blood-bath of the race."

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Click here ( March 7,   1844- 1915) New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

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Click here (Click here/1903 –1973) S. African-English libretto writer /writer

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Click here (Click here/1927 –2000) American screenwriter, author and occasional actor

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Robert L. Forward, (1932-2002) American physicist and writer

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Bonus Poem:

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'TIS true I write and tell me by what Rule

I am alone forbid to play the fool,

To follow through the Groves a wand'ring Muse

And fain'd Ideas's for my pleasures chuse.

Why shou'd it in my Pen be held a fault

Whilst Mira paints her face, to paint a thought?

Whilst Lamia to the manly Bumper flys

And borrow'd Spiritts sparkle in her Eyes,

Why shou'd itt be in me a thing so vain

To heat with Poetry my colder Brain?

But I write ill and there-fore shou'd forbear.

Does Flavia cease now at her fortieth year

In ev'ry Place to lett that face be seen

Which all the Town rejected at fifteen?

Each Woman has her weaknesse; mine indeed

Is still to write tho' hopelesse to succeed.

Nor to the Men is this so easy found;

Ev'n in most Works with which the Witts abound

(So weak are all since our first breach with Heav'n)

Ther's less to be Applauded then forgiven.

                                                                      Anne Finch

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NEEDAHAIKU?

Dog Haiku # 1379

He’s low maintenance;

A slice of American cheese…

It’s ‘back to the couch’