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Events:

Oct. 23 Durham at 6:30 p.m. Rebecca Rule will be at the Durham Public Library  Good stories never die, they evolve from teller to teller. New England has a rich and ongoing storytelling tradition from folklore to ″Bert and I," to stories about your family, your life, or the town you live in. Humorist Rebecca Rule will prime the pump with stories she's collected at small-town gatherings, often at historical societies and libraries, over the last ten years, plus a classic or two.Our ″discussion″ will be the stories that listeners offer up, and as one story leads to another -- humorous, serious, thought-provoking, or just plain entertaining -- we practice and preserve our stories and tradition. And laugh, a lot.This program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

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Oct 23,NYNYClick here Witter Bynner State Reading Poets House, 10 River Terrace at 7:00 PM
L. S. Asekoff, co-recipient of the Library of Congress’s 15th annual Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, reads in his home state. A moderated conversation with 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Philip Levine (who selected Asekoff for the fellowship) will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Poets House, 10 River Terrace Contact: (212) 431-7920 Click here You are subscribed to Poetry Events for Library of Congress. This information has recently been updated, and is now available.

October 23 2012, LA Cal  07:30pm   Click here  Paris Review Presents the Art of the Story  Author Mona Simpson, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, and Paris Review Daily editor Sadie Stein discuss literary life and read selected stories from the new Paris Review anthology Object Lessons. A Q&A will follow the reading. ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required. Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm. Click here

Oct 24 Farmington Goodwin Library 6:00. Writer’s Night; If you have any scary, ghostly, gothic poems or stories that might be fun to share for a Halloween theme. Click here

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October 25 , Manchester  – 7:00pm - 11:00pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Featureing  Rico Frederick  and open mike (647-9991 or Click here )

October 25, Newmarket: POETRY NIGHT  Hosted by Jenn Monroe. Click here! Signups start at 7:00, so come early, grab a seat, and prepare yourself for a night of poetry, new friends, and of course coffee! Following the open mic portion, there will be a different featured reader every month. All are welcome to perform, or come just to listen This month, our featured reader is Paul Hostovsky. Click here

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Barron Field ( 1786 –April11,1846)  Supreme Court Judge, Sydney . He published the first book of verse in Australia in 1819.

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Click here  (1844 – Click here/1930)  English writer /poet Poet Laureate and co-founded, with Henry Bradley and Walter Raleigh, the Society for Pure English (1913) The Testament of Beauty (1929),
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Jonathan Wyatt Latimer Peter Coffin 1906-June 23 1983 American hard-boiled mystery writer

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Click here 1940 – aug 26 ,2009 US songwriter  Leader of the Pack

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John Michael Crichton ( 1942 – Nov 4, 2008) American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter

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Click here 1949- Film director

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Click here  (1954 – ) Chinese director

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from Smells Like Nirvana

Now I'm mumblin' and I'm screamin'
And I don't know what I'm singin'
Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'
I still don't know what I'm singin'
We're so loud and incoherent
Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Yeah

It's unintel-ligible
I just can't get it through my skull
It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss
With all these marbles in my mouth
Don't know, don't know, don't know, oh no
Don't know, don't know, don't know...

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Click hereClick here  (1976 – )  US actor (married to Click here) Green Lantern

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Passed:

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Richard  Lovelace   December 9, 1617- 1657   Click here Click here poet

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Click here ( July 26,  1866-1928 ) Novelist Brewster's Millions

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Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 –1946) Click here U.S. citizen author, wildlife artist, founder of the Click here, and one of the founding pioneers of the Click here (BSA).

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1886 –1950)  US actor Click hereThe Jazz Singer

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Gavin Buchanan Ewart (4 February 1916 –1995) Click here poet

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      Dream of a Slave

I want to be carried, heavily sedated,

into a waiting aircraft.

I want to collapse from nervous exhaustion.

I want to bow my head like Samson

and bring down with me

the top ten advertising agencies.

I want to see the little bosses

vanish like harmless fairies.

I want the pantomime to be over,

the circus empty.

I want what is real to establish itself,

my children to prevail,

to live happy ever after

in this world that worships the preposterous.

It is better to be a scribe

than hacking at the salt mines,

heaving the building blocks.

Everybody wants to be a scribe.

But I want out. I want non-existance.

A passive dream, a future for my children.

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Click here ( Dec . 2,1914 2002 ) Songwriter Singin' in the Rain

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History:

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1920. publication of Sinclair Lewis's Click here

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1941, The Senate passed a $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-Lease Bill bringing the United States one step closer to direct involvement in World War II.

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1978, The Stories of Click here was first published

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Bonus Poem:

             Psalm

I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure

I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament

for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine

so I dully repeat
you hurt me
I hate you

I pull my eyes away from the hills
I will not kill for you
I will never love you again

unless you ask me

        Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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-RIP-

Stanford Robert Ovshinsky (Nov 24, 1922 – Oct 17, 2012) prolific American Click here and Click here

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George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – Oct 21, 2012) American historian, author and Click here, Click here, and the Click here presidential nominee in the Click here.

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Your Editorz ’s been thinking:

1/ wouldn’t it be nice if we [the US] had an energy policy ?

2 / And wouldn’t it be nice if the first time someone suggested “peace” we all picked up the word ?

& a personal note-

My Old Buddy Al Gould was in South East Asia in the late ‘60’s…when he talks about buying a pig in a poke ,he always mentions:” But then again, I voted for Nixon because he told us he was going to get us out of VietNam.”