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Events:

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Sept. 25 , Northampton ,Mass - Open Mic at Hinge, John Survivor Blake featured, 8pm  413) 727-8561 Click here        Click here

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Oct 4 Rochester Writers Night featuring Barbara Bald . Our feature begins at 6:15After the feature performance we will take a short break and then return for the open mic portion of our program. Participants have a 5 minute limit, with extra rounds if there is time..Please come early for some of the Pantry's remarkable food, bring your original poetry, prose, or music to read, or just relax and listen to our talented feature performer and enjoy a great night.Sign-up at 6 PM We end just before 8PM Portable Pantry 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH.

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October 21, Dublin, N.H 2:30 p.m. Social/Sign-up,                3 p.m. Open Reading

Feature poets: (Two Novels in Verse) Terry Farish (The Good Braider: Marshall Cavendish, 2012)                     Meg Kearney (The Girl in the Mirror: Persea, 2012) New book celebrations                                                                                                   with Host Rodger Martin New book celebrations

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

And later:

October 18, 2012 New York, NY Academy of American Poets: 2012 Poets Forum   Click hereThursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM - Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 9:00 PM New York, NY       Click here

Chancellors Reading       Thursday, October 18, 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an unforgettable evening as some of the most acclaimed poets of our day come together on one stage to read from their latest work.
The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts   at New York University  566 LaGuardia Place

Poetry Walking Tours       Friday, October 19, 10:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.
Walk the same streets traversed by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, and countless other poets. These poet-guided walking tours will explore the literary history of Harlem, the West Village, the Museum of Modern Art, and SoHo. This year’s poet guides are Jordan Davis, Dante Micheaux, Stacy Szymaszek, and Matthew Thorburn.
All-Events Passholders only
All-Events Passholders will be contacted about walking tour details by early fall.

Chancellors Discussions on Contemporary Poetry Saturday, Oct2010:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
Through a series of intimate talks, some of the most renowned poets of our time examine issues central to poetry today:
Poetic Beginnings: Beats, New York School & Language Poetry - Lyn Hejinian, Ron Padgett, Gary Snyder & Anne Waldman
The Poet as Hermit or Social Being - Mark Doty, Marie Ponsot & Arthur Sze
Writing Rituals: In the Frame of Mind to Write - Victor Hernández Cruz, Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye
The Poetry and Legacy of Adrienne Rich - Marilyn Hacker & Sharon Olds
“This Is Just To Say”: Short Poems - Toi Derricotte, Jane Hirshfield & Carl Phillips
The New School     Tishman Auditorium       66 West 12th Street

Born:

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Click here 1764-c.1793 Led the mutiny on the Bounty

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Click here Zhou Shuren 1881-October 19,1936 Chinese Short-story writer, essayist, critic, and literary theorist

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Click here (1894- Aug 11,1977 ) Playwright One of the Hollywood Ten

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Click here (1936- Sept 14,1996 ) Actress / Dancer Can-Can

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Aram Saroyan (, 1943)  Click here Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here.

Today

I saw
the sea
(as I glanced
to my right
at the wheel
driving home
from Oxnard)
as if it were
all one thing
and alive

it there
me in the car
in my life
which will end
as it continues
as the planet
and the universe
does

it had to do
with being
this age
and being
happy
with life
as a phenom-
onon
not abstract
but not so
personal
as it was

my wrist watch
telling
the same time
as anybody's
in this
time zone
I got a
glimpse
of being
alive and

dead at the
same time
the ocean and sky
a continuum
in which I too
for the moment
exist

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Shel Silverstein, 1930 – May 10/11,1999 American humorist and author

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Barbara Walters, Click here -Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)

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Click here  1935-  Swedish writer and journalist Click hereBest Novel winner (Click here) : The Laughing Policeman

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Michael Kirk Douglas (1944) American actor and Click here,

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Christopher D'Olier Reeve 1952 – October 10, 2004) American actor, Click here, producer, screenwriter and author

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Michael Søren Madsen (1957)-  American actor, poet, and photographer

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Mary Herbert (née Sidney), Countess of Pembroke (27 October 1561 –1621), one of the first Click here women  to produce Click here works, poetry, poetic Click here and literary patronage.

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Click here ( March 5,  1794-1870 ) US Supreme Court Justice, 1846-70

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Arthur Fremantle, ( 1835-Click here ) British general and American Civil War observer

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Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Löwry (December 27, 1882 –1966), Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, actress, Click here, designer of lamps, and Click here

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Love Songs

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Spawn of Fantasies
Silting the appraisable
Pig Cupid his rosy snout
Rooting erotic garbage
'Once upon a time'
Pulls a weed white star-topped
Among wild oats sown in mucous-membrane

I would an eye in a Bengal light
Eternity in a sky-rocket
Constellations in an ocean
Whose rivers run no fresher
Than a trickle of saliva

These are suspect places

I must live in my lantern
Trimming subliminal flicker
Virginal to the bellows
Of Experience

Coloured glass

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Click here (Click here/1898–1970) German writer Click hereAll Quiet on the Western Front

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Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886 –1971) American politician and jurist

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William Milligan Sloane III (15 August 1906, 1974, American author of fantasy and science fiction literature, and a publisher.

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Marie Under, 27 March 1883 –1980 Click here Click here  

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Click here (Click here/1930 –1999) US writer The Mists of Avalon

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Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 –2000), Welsh poet and Click here priest

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Click here ( March 18,1927-2003 ) Author Paper Lion

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John M. Ford, (1957-2006 ) American author and poet

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Bonus Poem:

If I Go Strolling with My Dead Girl Friends,

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends
the city will be flooded with mute girls
the wind with an acrid aroma of death
the forts will unfurl white flags
vehicles will halt

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends. -

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends
you will see a thousand girls
with riddled breasts uncovered
calling out to you
"Why did you send us to sleep so soon,
in so much snow, uncombed, in tears?"

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends.

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends
crowds in amazement will see
that no lighter column stepped
on earth no more sacred litany
ever paraded no more glorious and bloody resurrection—

If I go strolling with my dead girl friends.

                                                                    Rita Boumi-Papa

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