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Events:

October 17, Concord: PSNH Poetry Open Mic  Nancy Bailey Miller & Mary Chivers are featured, followed by open mike, at Gibson’s Books, 7-9 p.m. (Click here , Don Kimball,224-0562, Click here ).

Oct 17, Exeter In Honor of Charlie Pratt. Everyone is invited to come to Water Street Book Store in Exeter on Oct 17 from 6 to 7:30. The Voice and Vision piece made by Charlie and Kit Cornell will be installed at Water Street. "Poems will be read by Charlie's friends John Perrault, Marie Harris, Mimi White, and Katie Towler. Finally, Joan Pratt will read some of Charlie's poetry. . Refreshments also

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November 1st Rochester ,Portable Pantry Open Mic Featuring Bruce Valley Author & Poet Sign-ups start at 6 PM, our feature starts at 6:15. After our feature we take a short break, then begin the open mic portion of the program. During the open mic, writers are able to perform their original works of poetry, prose or music. Each performer has a 5-minute limit with extra rounds as time allows. 12 Hanson St. in Rochester NH  ( Pat O’Brien, 332-6357, (Click here)

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Click hereClick here  (1864 – Click here/1943)  English writer Three Weeks (1907)
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E(rnest) W(illiam) Goodpasture, (1886-   )  US pathologist - who devised a way of cultivating viruses and rickettsia in fertile chicken eggs.

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Click hereClick here  (1898 – Click here/1998)  Japanese violinist, teacher

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Click here, (1900- June 19,1991). US movie star Click here

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Arthur Yvor Winters (1900 – 25 January 1968) American Click here and Click here Click here.

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Moonrise

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The rising moon draws
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Click hereNathanael West 1903-December 22,,1940 American writerThe Day of the Locust (1939),
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Click here, (1906). Poet  He published a volume of more than 700 sonnets, called Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1934),

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Click hereClick here  (1912 – Click here/1978) Italian Pope

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Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (1914 – January 28, 1996), the American co-creator of Click here (along with Click here),

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Click hereClick here (/1915 – Click here/2005)  US playwright Death of a Salesman
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Click hereClick here (/1917 – Click here/2006)  US actor (was married to Click here)
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Click hereClick here  (/1920 – Click here/1966) US actor
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Click hereClick here  (10/17/1930 – )  US writer The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel

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CK Christian Karlson Stead, (1932) Click here writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism

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Les Leslie Allan Murray, ( 1938), Australian poet, anthologist and critic.

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Click hereClick here  (10/17/1947 – )  US comic actor Click here, "David St. Hubbins" in Click here)

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Click hereClick here  (10/17/1948 – )  Canadian actor lois Lane

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Click hereClick here  (10/17/1948 – )  US actor Norm on Cheers

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Click here  (Click here/1819 –1897)  US newspaper magnate New York Sun

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Click here  (Click here/1819 –1910)  US writer (wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")

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Road-Hymn For The Start

Leave the early bells at chime,
Leave the kindled hearth to blaze,
Leave the trellised panes where children linger out the waking-time,
Leave the forms of sons and fathers trudging through the misty ways,
Leave the sounds of mothers taking up their sweet laborious days.

Pass them by! even while our soul
Yearns to them with keen distress.
Unto them a part is given; we will strive to see the whole.
Dear shall be the banquet table where their singing spirits press;
Dearer be our sacred hunger, and our pilgrim loneliness.

We have felt the ancient swaying
Of the earth before the sun,
On the darkened marge of midnight heard sidereal rivers playing;
Rash it was to bathe our souls there, but we plunged and all was done.
That is lives and lives behind us--lo, our journey is begun!

Careless where our face is set,
Let us take the open way.
What we are no tongue has told us: Errand-goers who forget?
Soldiers heedless of their harry? Pilgrim people gone astray?
We have heard a voice cry "Wander!" That was all we heard it say.

Ask no more: 't is much, 't is much!
Down the road the day-star calls;
Touched with change in the wide heavens, like a leaf the frost winds touch,
Flames the failing moon a moment, ere it shrivels white and falls;
Hid aloft, a wild throat holdeth sweet and sweeter intervals.

Leave him still to ease in song
Half his little heart's unrest:
Speech is his, but we may journey toward the life for which we long.
God, who gives the bird its anguish, maketh nothing manifest,
But upon our lifted foreheads pours the boon of endless quest.

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History:

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1823, President James Monroe wrote a Click here to his friend and Virginia neighbor Click here seeking advice on foreign policy. The issue at hand was whether to accept an offer from Great Britain to issue a joint declaration warning other powers such as Spain and France not to intervene in the affairs of Central and South America.

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1826, Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh married.

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Bonus Poem:

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     TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM

A linnet who had lost her way
Sang on a blackened bough in Hell,
Till all the ghosts remembered well
The trees, the wind, the golden day.

At last they knew that they had died
When they heard music in that land,
And someone there stole forth a hand
To draw a brother to his side.

                                               James Elroy Flecker

Title: Forty-Two Poems