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Events:

Nov 6 Moultonborough Evening of Poetry at the Moultonborough public library 7:30 PM- 9:30 PM Feature Performer/Reader Musician Don Watson, & an Open Mic

Nov 7 Portsmouth  PPLP Poetry Hoot at Click here restaurant at 7:00 PM. Featuring  poets  Click here & Click here  Open Mic follows, great group, menu and refreshments   738 Islington Street  in the 800 Islington Plaza  Click here

November 8, Plymouth: 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist Forrest Gander, author of Core Samples From the World, will be featured at the Eagle Pond Authors' Series. Followed by a dessert reception and a book signing, where Donald Hall will sign his newest book, Christmas at Eagle Pond. Tickets are free, but must be reserved by calling (603) 535-ARTS. At 7 p.m., Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University. Click here

November 8, Portsmouth, 7-8:30 pm: Make ’Em Laugh  Host ; Maren Tirabassi

Rules: “An open-mic evening of funny, light, humorous, ha-ha, knee-slapping, amusing (but not dirty or insulting) poetry by living poets—namely YOU. Bring your funniest poems and sign up at the door.”    Portsmouth Public Library, Levinson Community Room    Contact: Mike Albert, Click here

Born:

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Click here  (1850 – Click here/1919)  US writer Poems of Passion MAURINE

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Click here  (1855 – Click here/1926)  US labor organizer Walls and Bars, 1926.

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Ida M(inerva) Tarbell, (1857- January 6, 1944), US investigative journalist Click here (1904)

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Click here  (1884 – Click here/1915)  English writer Stillness
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Click hereClick here  (1885 – Click here/1981)  US historian and philosopher (married to Click here) Volume Ten: Rousseau and Revolution (1967), Pulitzer Prize in 1968.

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Click here  (1892 – Click here/1964)  Scottish scientist

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Click here 1905- Oct 20,1990 US Actor Ride the High Country

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Click here  (1906-Aug 30,2004 ) Astronomer -Comet Guy

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Click hereClick here  (1911 – Click here/1998)  US actor, singer

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Helvi Juvonen 1919-Oct 1,1959 Finnish poet and translator

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Click hereClick here  (1941 – )  US singer (also see Click here)

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Click here,(1943- ) American playwright and actor Buried Child

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Click here (1946-Sept 17,1993)  US musician ‘ father of country-rock’. Flying Burrito Brothers

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Oh my land is like a wild goose
Wanders all around everywhere
Trembles and it shakes till every tree is loose
It rolls the meadows and it rolls the nails
So take me down to your dance floor
And I wont mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to
It sails the rivers and it sails the tide
Some of my friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside
So take me down to your dance floor
And I wont mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there

I loved you every day and now I'm leaving
And I can see the sorrow in your eyes
I hope you know a lot more than you're believing
Just so the sun don't hurt ou when you cry
So take me down to your dance floor
And I wont mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there
And tomorrow we will still be there

                                                                                         Gram Parsons

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Passed:

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James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 1879) Scottish   Click here.  His most prominent achievement was formulating classical Click here.

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Ole EdvartClick here ( April 22, 1876- 1931 ) Click here Novelist Giants in the Earth

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Click here July 3, 1878 -1942 Singer Songwriter Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Click here  ( Sept 21, 1902-1963)  Spanish/Mexican Poet Generation of '27

“Nocturne Among Grotesqueries”:

Body of stone, morose body
In woolens like the walls of the universe,
Body like the birthdays of the races,
Like edifices overwhelmingly innocent,
Like the shyest waterfalls
White as the night, while the mountain
Rips up manic shapes,
Pains like fingers
And pleasures like fingernails.

Not knowing where to go, where to go back to,
Seeking those merciful winds
That wear away the wrinkles in the earth,
That bless those desires cut out at the roots
Before flowering.
Their great blossom, like a child.

Lips want that flower
Whose fist, kissed by the night,
Opens the doors of oblivion lip by lip.

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1909 –1979)  US cartoonist (Li'l Abner)

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Click hereClick here (Click here/1903 –1989)  Russian pianist

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Click here ( Sept 11,  1899-2000)  Singer Songwriter You Are My Sunshine

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Click here 1940-2003 Singer The Righteous Brothers

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1926 –2005) English novelist and essayist The French Lieutenant's Woman

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History:

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Click here		Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China Click here
Click here		Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged Click here   1805           Click here   Click here

Bonus Poem:

November Morning

A tingling, misty marvel Blew hither in the night, And now the little peach-trees Are clasped in frozen light. Upon the apple branches An icy film is caught, With trailing threads of gossamer In pearly patterns wrought. The autumn sun, in wonder, Is gayly peering through This silver tissued network Across the frosty blue. The weather vane is fire tipped, The honeysuckle shows A dazzling icy splendor, And crystal is the rose. Around the eaves are fringes Of icicles that seem To mock the summer rainbows With many colored gleam. Along the walk, the pebbles Are each a precious stone; The grass is tasseled hoarfrost, The clover jewel sown. Such sparkle, sparkle, sparkle Fills all the frosty air, Oh, can it be that darkness Is ever anywhere!

                                                                                                              by Evaleen Stein