October  18

October 18^th. Effingham. The Friends of Effingham Library are pleased to welcome two young writers to Effingham Writers´ Night. Both Mike Harris of Brookfield, and UNH graduate, Dillon Welch have contributed to and served as student editor to the UNH Literary magazine, Aegis. Features followed by Open Mic opportunity for writers /musicians (5 min. limit). Please join us and bring a piece of writing or acoustic music to share. Light Refreshments and engaging conversation with other writers, musicians and artists. The Library is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham.

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Oct 18 Portsmouth Beat Night -An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word accompanied by Live Music. at: The Press Room  poet Mark DeCarteret is guest poetry curator this month. 7:00 - 8:00 PM The Readers: Mark DeCarteret, Ewa Chrusciel, S. Stephanie, and Walter Butts        Accompanied by  The Larry Simon Ensemble=  Larry Simon-Guitar, Scip Gallant-Keys, Mike Barron & Frank Laurino-percussion, Chris Stambaugh-Bass and guests  The Press Room 77 Daniel St Portsmouth NH   Phone Click here  , Click here )

October  18  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  )

October 18- 20 New York, NY  Academy of American Poets: 2012 Poets Forum   Click here7:00 PM - Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 9:00 PM  New York, NY       Click here

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Michael Wigglesworth (1631–June 10,1705) Click here minister and poet Click here

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Castles In The Air

My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone I build
My castles in the air.

I dwell not now on what may be:
Night shadows o'er the scene:
But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.

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Click hereClick here  (/1865 – Click here/1941)  French philosopher
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Click hereClick here  (/1865 – Click here/1946)  English-US writer
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Click hereClick here  (/1878 – Click here/1949)  US historian

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Miriam Hopkins   (1902 – Click here/1972)  US actor
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Click hereA.bbott Click here  (1904 – Click here/1963)  US writer (was married to Click here)

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Chuck Berry 1926- R&R songwriter guitarist,

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Click hereClick here  (1927 – Click here/1999)  US actor
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Click hereClick here   (1947 – Click here/1997)  US singer, songwriter

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Click here Paulette Williams (1948), US  poet, novelist, dramatist, and performer whose choreopoem  for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf opened on Broadway in 1976

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Click hereClick here  (/1950 – Click here/2006) US comic / playwright Pulitzer Prize winner for The Heidi Chronicles

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Click here (1951- ), US novelist Waiting to Exhale,

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Click here  (1961)  .US Author The Ice Storm (1995)

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Passed:

10/18

Click here (29 January 1817  -1903 )Eng. Painter Designed first Christmas card

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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (31 March 1848 –1919) Click here who became a Click here nobleman./publisher- The Observer

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A Light Bulb

A single light bulb, in a darkened room,
Will banish forever the stygian gloom.
Turning the night time into day,
Leaving no room for shadow play.

It will brighten up each hidden niche,
There is no place it's light won't reach.
Chasing nightmares out into the night,
With it's glorious incandescent light.


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                                                                                        Juan Olivarez

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Click here  (Click here/1886 –1973)  US writer Founder of the Little Review

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1913 –/1973)  US cartoonist  POGO

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1885 –1982)  US first lady (34)

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1925 –/2000)  US actor, dancer (was married to Click here) Damn Yankees

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History:

10/18

1896 Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, the first of his masterpieces, premiered in St. Petersburg.

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1898, American troops fighting in the Click here raised the United States flag in Puerto Rico formalizing U.S. control of the former Spanish colony.

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1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.

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1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the Click here Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.

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Bonus Poem:

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The sky is dark and the air is full of snow,
I go to a warmer clime afar and away;
Though my heart is so tired I do not care for it now,
But here in my empty nest I cannot stay;
Thus cried the swallow,
I go from the falling snow, oh, follow me - oh, follow.

One night my mate came home with a broken wing,
So he died; and my brood went long ago;
And I am alone, and I have no heart to sing,
With no one to hear my song, and I must go;
Thus cried the swallow,
Away from dust and decay, oh, follow me - oh, follow.

But I think I will never find so warm and safe a nest,
As my home, in the pleasant days gone by, gone by,
I think I shall never fold my wings in such happy rest,
Never again - oh, never again till I die;
Thus cried the swallow,
But I go from the falling snow, oh, follow me - oh, follow.

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