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To: tunamelttunafeet.yahoo.com
Sent: 10/30/2012 7:39:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Oct 30 ///12 StraFFoRDnotes
 

 

October  30- The ‘Sandy ‘Version*

Events:

Oct 30  Portland Click here .Again,Port Veritas hostes this annual Halloween event. After our regular open mic poets are encouraged to bring down their favorite works by our deceased heroes of poetry and prose. This one evening alone we toss out all the rules. Costumes, props and gore are allowed and encouraged. Bring a few pieces of one or more of your dirt napping poetic inspirations and see if you can win the favor of the crowd at the 2012 Dead Poetry Slam open theme performances from International, National and Local artists. ] 375 Fore Street Portland All Ages $2 Cover7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature at 8:30) Click here  Or  Click here

 

Nov 1 Rochester Writers Night  Author & poet Bruce Valley 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. Click here

 

Nov 3 Strafford, Hill’s Library Poet’s Night Featuring the unique poems and stories of Jonathan Stoker Open mic follows; snacks & beverages(BYOB) follows –Ken Berry/ Click here

Musical concert:

Nov.7, Ogunquit, Me. "The Queen of Folkabilly." Nanci Griffith  "Once In a Very Blue Moon" and "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go." For tickets, call or visit our website! 92 Bourne Lane, Ogunquit. Just Around the Corner from the Ogunquit Playhouse! 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit, ME 03907  207-646-4777 Click here

 

Born:

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José Manuel Gallegos 1815- April 21, 1875. . the first Democrat elected as a delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Territory of New Mexico in 1853. Click here

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A DESIRE

 

OH, to have dwelt in Bethlehem When the star of the Lord shone bright! To have sheltered the holy wanderers On that blessed Christmas night; To have kissed the tender wayworn feet Of the mother undefiled, And with reverent wonder and deep delight, To have tended the Holy Child! Hush! such a glory was not for thee; But that care may still be thine; 10 For are there not little ones still to aid For the sake of the Child divine? Are there no wandering Pilgrims now, To thy heart and thy home to take And are there no Mothers whose weary hearts You can comfort for Mary's sake? Click here

Click hereClick here (1885 – Click here/1972) US poet
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Click hereClick here (1894 – Click here/1977) French Lampoonist, moralist, historian of the life sciences, biologist, popularizer scientific, pacifist, humanistic, anticlerical...
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James Laughlin (1914 – November 12, 1997) Click here Click here and literary book publisher who founded Click here.

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Click hereClick here (1915 – Click here/1998) US TV producer
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Passed:

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Click here  (Click here/1850 –1919)  US writer
Solitude

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.

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History:

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1938, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast the Orson Welles-Howard Koch-John Houseman radio adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel, The War of the Worlds. –TinLit

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1811 Click here's Sense and Sensibility, her first novel, was published

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Bonus Poem:

 

Ark

 

One stormy night I will open by myself
The lonely locked room beside me

I may find a candle-stub, a box of matches
A bolt of spiritual lightning to set me shivering

A stone sinks in the ocean five hundred metres off shore
The soul of a bird nesting in the cliffs is fervent and imperilled

Yes, the ocean is nearby, one stormy night
I will listen to the pounding of the waves and light the candle

Write life’s sun on the land
And the death-date of all things

But I am a young man walking towards the sea
After experiencing hardships I will be fully fledged

Three knocks on the door reverberate in my heart
The tide leaps onto the sandy shore like a great host of turtles

This night’s dagger, this flotsam from a seaborne ship
I pat the ancient ark, the bright moon hangs high

One stormy night I will open by myself
The lonely locked room beside me

 

                                                                                       © Xi Chuan

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© Translation: 2006, Tao Naikan and Tony Prince
From: Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets
Publisher: Wild Peony, Sydney, 2006, 1-876957-08-5

 

 

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