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Events:

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 1, Manchester – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – poetry open mic followed by a feature and then an open poetry slam ;feature this week will be Eliel Lucero (647-9991 or Click here )

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Nov 13,Newmarket  Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 - Enjoy a full kitchen and bar and (as always) Feature is Jade Sylvan!  bluegrass will follow afterwords. Contact: Beau Williams Click here   Click here

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James Renwick, Jr., (1818-June 23,1895   ). American architect -St. Patrick's Cathedral, the main building of the Smithsonian Institution, the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the original structure for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
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David Jones (1895- 28 October 1974) painter, essayist, engraver, and one of the first generation Click here Click here poets

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Edmund Charles Blunden (1896– 20 Jan 1974) Click here Click here, Click here and Click here. Can You Remember? Undertones of War

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Johan Nordah Brun Grieg, (1902-1943   ), Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist, and seaman The Ship Sails On. Norway in our Hearts  (1929). The Young Dead Ones (1932).

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Zenna Chlarson Henderson (1917 – May 11, 1983) Click here science fiction and Click here novella and short story author, and an elementary school teacher.

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Click here (1937– ) US singer, songwriter Po' Folks

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from Church

I went to church last Sunday
So I could sing and pray
But something quite unusual
Happened on that day

Now church it started right on time
Just like it does without a doubt
And everything was all just fine
Except when it came time to let us out

You know the preacher he kept preaching
He told us I have one more thing to say
Children before you think of leaving
You better think about the Judgment Day

Now everyone got nervous
Because everyone was hungry too
And everyone was wondering
What was the next thing he would do

And the preacher he kept preaching
He said now I'll remind you if I may
You all better pay attention
Or I might decide to preach all day

And now everyone was getting so hungry
That the old ones started feeling ill
And the weak ones started passing out
And the Click here ones they could not sit still

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So I snuck up on the balcony
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And I begged them brothers, Click here, help me please

I said when I give you a signal
I said when I raise up my hand
Won't you please join with me together
And praise the Lord I have a plan

And the preacher he kept preaching
Long is the struggle, hard the fight
And I prayed, Click here please forgive me
And then I stood up and with all my might
I sang

To the Lord let praises be
It's time for dinner now let's go eat
We've got some beans and some good cornbread
And I listened to what the preacher said
Now it's to the Lord let praised be
It's time for dinner now let's go eat

Yes and I did give a signal
Yes and I raised up my hands
And then joined with me the choir
Yes every woman, Click here, and man
They sang

To the Lord let praised be
It's time for dinner now let's go eat
We've got some beans and some good cornbread
And I've listened to what the preacher said
Now it's to the Lord let praised be
It's time for dinner now let's go eat

And the preacher he stopped preaching
And a hush the church did fill
And then a great white dove from up above
Landed on the window sill

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Click here ( 1508-1588) French Pléiade poet

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Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) Click here writer and controversialist.

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Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 - 1964) Click here Click here and Click here

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Click hereClick hereClick hereClick here (Click here/1885 –1972) US poet The Cantos The Return

Further Instructions

Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.
Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.
You are very idle, my songs,
I fear you will come to a bad end.
You stand about the streets, You loiter at the corners and bus-stops,
You do next to nothing at all.

You do not even express our inner nobilitys,
You will come to a very bad end.

And I? I have gone half-cracked.
I have talked to you so much that I almost see you about me,
Insolent little beasts! Shameless! Devoid of clothing!

But you, newest song of the lot,
You are not old enough to have done much mischief.
I will get you a green coat out of China
With dragons worked upon it.
I will get you the scarlet silk trousers
From the statue of the infant Christ at Santa Maria Novella;
Lest they say we are lacking in taste,
Or that there is no caste in this family.

                                                                          from Lustra (1913-1915)

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from the”InCaseYouMissedIt”Dept:

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History:

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Click here in the western Christian church, commemorating all the saints of the church, both known and unknown. Pope Gregory the Third dedicated a chapel in St. Peter's in Rome on November first of the year 731. In the year 800, November first appeared as All Saints Day on the English calendar, and it was officially set by Pope Gregory the Fourth in 835. In medieval England, the festival honoring this day was known as All Hallows Day, and the day before is still known as Halloween.- the Writer’s Almanack archive

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Bonus Poem:

                      Ghazal

It is night and these words come to me
By the call of my voice words come to me

What fire blazes in me, what water do I get?
From my body, the fragrance of my soul comes to me

I do not know from where these great words come
The fresh breeze takes loneliness away from me

That from the clouds of light comes this light
That there is no other wish that comes to me
The cry of my heart sparkles like a star
And the bird of my flight touches the sky
My madness can be found in his book
O do not say no, my master, O look once at me

It is like the day of judgment
Like doomsday my silence comes at me
I am happy that the giver gives me silk
And all night, all along these verses come to me

by Nadia Anjuman
Translated by Khizra Aslam

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RIP

John C. Fitch:

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