September 23

Events:

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

September 23 Dublin, N.H. 2:30 p.m. Social/Sign-up, 3 p.m. Open Reading

Feature poets :  Richard Hoffman (Emblem: Barrow Press, 2011),

William Doreski (City of Palms, 2012)

with Host Rodger Martin New book celebrations

Donation          Del Rossi’sTrattoria Rt.137N  , Dublin NH        603 563- 7195

September 23 Portsmouth at 4pm celebrate the release of Memory Won't Save Me, the new book by former Portsmouth Poet Laureate Mimi White. RiverRun Bookstore 142 Fleet Street   Portsmouth, NH 03801   (603) 431-2100       Click here

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Click here Pseudonym: Anodos (1861-Aug 25 ,1907 ) Eng Teacher ,Woman of Letters

L'oiseau bleu

1The Lake lay blue below the hill.

2 O'er it, as I looked, there flew

3Across the waters, cold and still,

4 A bird whose wings were palest blue.

5The sky above was blue at last,

6 The sky beneath me blue in blue.

7A moment, ere the bird had passed,

8 It caught his image as he flew.

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Click hereClick here  (1863 – Click here/1954)  US writer, social reformer

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Click here 1865-1947 Hungarian-British novelist THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905).

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Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) midwestern poet and author of Click here

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Click here (1889 – Click here/1974) US writer journalist and commentator Today and Tomorrow
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Click here1901-Jan 10,1986 Poet and journalist who was the first Czech to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984   The Nightingale Sings Out of Tune

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Click here (1926– Click here/1967) US jazz composer, musician

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Click here (Click here/1692 –1763) English writer

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Click here Nathan Ben Saddi(1703-64) Eng Augustan Bookseller/poet

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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 –1889) English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories.

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Click here (Dec .24, 1818-89) Eng Victorian poet

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SUMMER'S FAREWELL.

WHAT sound is that? 'Tis Summer's farewell,

In the breath of the night-wind sighing;

The chill breeze comes like a sorrowful dirge,

That wails o'er the dead and the dying.

The sapless leaves are eddying round,

On the path which they lately shaded:

The oak of the forest is losing its robe;

The flowers have fallen and faded.

All that I look on but saddens my heart,

To think that the lovely so soon should depart.

Yet why should I sigh? Other summers will come

Joys like the past one bringing:

Again will the vine bear its blushing fruit;

Again will the birds singing.

The forest will put forth its “honours" again;

The rose be as sweet in its breathing;

The woodbine will climb round the lattice pane,

As wild and rich in it’s wreathing.

The hives will have honey, the bees will hum;

Other flowers will spring, other summers will come!

They will, they will; but ah! Who can tell

Whether I may live on till their coming?

This spirit may sleep too soundly then

To wake with the warbling or humming.

This cheek, now pale, may be paler far,

When the summer sun next is glowing;

The cherishing ray may gild with light

The grass on my grave -turf growing.

Oh! What a change in my spirit's dream

May there be ere the summer sun next shall "beam”.

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John Gawsworth  Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 - 1970), British writer, poet and compiler of Click here, both of poetry and of short stories.

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Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], July 12, 1904 1973 - poet (100 Love Sonnets) Residencia en la Tierra

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Cliff “Click here (Click here/1905 –1974) US comedian, actor, pianist, composer

Robert Bloch, Aug 5,1917 -1994 screenwriter (Psycho)
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Bonus Poem:

The Shadows

BOUGHS of the pine and stars between,

In woods where shadows fill the air,

Oh, who may rest that once has been

A shadow there?

Sounds of the night and tears between,

The grey owl hooting, dimly heard;

Can footsteps reach those lands unseen,

Or wings of bird?

Days of the years and worlds between,

Still through the boughs the stars may burn,

The heart may break for lands unseen,

For woods wherein its life has been,

But not return.

                                   -Violet Jacob

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