October  24

Events:

Oct. 24, Concord 7 p.m.: Presentation of the Donald Hall–Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry to Jane Hirschfield. 7 p.m. Sweeney Auditorium, New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord, N.H. $10. Click here. The prize is sponsored by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and the Concord Monitor. Also attending the event will be Donald Hall, New Hampshire resident and former U.S. poet laureate, and Wes McNair, New Hampshire native and poet laureate of Maine. Previous winners of the Hall-Kenyon Prize are former U.S. poets laureate Ted Kooser and Kay Ryan. Hirshfield has published seven collections of poetry, including Come, Thief; After; and Given Sugar, Given Salt, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012. A week before the event, the NHWP Book Club for Poets, a group open to writers who wish to discuss craft, will feature Hirshfield's Come, Thief on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the Danforth Library, New England College, in Henniker. For more information about the Book Club for Poets, visit Click here. For more information about the Hall-Kenyon Prize, contact NHWP at (603) 314-7980 or Click here.

Oct 24 Farmington 6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington –6:00pm – 7:30pm  Adult Poets and Writers Group. Join our wonderfully talented group to share your writing, poetry and songs with our supportive and encouraging group.   (795-5944, Click here )

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Click here  (1632 – Click here/1723) Dutch biologist

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The Earthwoman and the Waterwoman

        The earthwoman by her oven

                     tends her cakes of good grain.

The waterwoman’s children

are spindle thin.

                                 The earthwoman

                  has oaktree arms. Her children

full of blood and milk

       stamp through the woods shouting.

                 The waterwoman

       sings gay songs in a sad voice

               with her moonshine children.

When the earthwoman

has had her fill of the good day

      she curls to sleep in her warm hut

      a dark fruitcake sleep

but the waterwoman

                  goes dancing in the misty lit-up town

      in dragonfly dresses and blue shoes.

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Passed:

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From A CRUSADER’S TOMB

Unnamed, unknown:—his hands across his breast
Set in sepulchral rest,
In yon low cave-like niche the warrior lies,
—A shrine within a shrine,—
Full of gray peace, while day to darkness dies.

Then the forgotten dead at midnight come
And throng their chieftain’s tomb,
Murmuring the toils o’er which they toil’d, alive,
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And all the air thrills like a summer hive.

—How so, thou say’st!—This is the poet’s right!
He looks with larger sight
Than they who hedge their view by present things,
The small, parochial world
Of sight and touch: and what he sees, he sings.

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History:

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1861, the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed by Click here, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-nineteenth-century standards) from coast to coast.

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1901, Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to survive Click here. The barrel was heavily padded inside, and equipped with a harness, leading a reporter to remark that Mrs. Taylor "seems to be taking a lot of credit that belongs to the barrel."

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1929, Click here in a massive sell-off of stocks. Later in the day, six major banking institutions, led by the firm of J.P. Morgan and Company, put up 40 million dollars apiece to steady the market. The action by the banks held off a Stock Market crash for another five days.

1938 t the Click here went into effect, establishing the minimum wage and the 40-hour work week. It was the first effort by the federal government to regulate wages and hours for workers. The first minimum wage was set at 25 cents per hour.

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1945 the Click here officially went into effect.

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1958 Raymond Chandler began his last novel, the never-completed (by him) Poodle Springs.

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Bonus Poem:

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LITTLE cramped words scrawling all over the paper

Like draggled fly's legs,

What can you tell of the flaring moon

Through the oak leaves?

Or of my uncurtained window and the bare floor

Spattered with moonlight?

Your silly quirks and twists have nothing in them

Of blossoming hawthorns,

And this paper is dull, crisp, smooth, virgin of loveliness

Beneath my hand.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against

The want of you;

Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,

And posting it.

And I scald alone, here, under the fire

Of the greater moon.

Amy Lowell

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