Nov 27

Events:

Nov 27^th Portland, Women of the World Poetry Slam Qualifier. Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101  All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Slam at 8:30) This Poetry Slam Inc, certified event will qualify a local poet to compete at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam competition in Minneapolis, MN. There will be a $10 buy-in for poets wishing to compete. Please come with three original pieces of poetry to compete. Click here

Christmas Entertainment:

Dec 8 Laconia  SANTAMENTAL CHRISTMAS SPECTULAR, Musical comedy ;for one night only! show time is 7:30; tickets are $15 at the door (BYOB), and light refreshments will be available. Pitman’s Freight Room, a former warehouse lovingly refurbished as a function room and performance space, is located at 94 New Salem Street in Downtown Laconia. advance tickets at Click here.

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Click here  (1635 – Click here/1719)  French courtesan, writer

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Anders Celsius  (1701-April 24 1744 ) Swedish Click here., inventor (centigrade temp scale)

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Robert Livingston 1746-1813  statesman and amateur scientist ;delivered oath of office to George Washington ; delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and served on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence ;ambassador to France, where with the help of James Monroe he negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. He also experimented with steam power, and entered into a partnership with Robert Fulton.

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Click here (1758- 1800) Irish Romantic Poet

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Click here  (1874 – Click here/1948)  US historian  An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913); The Rise of American Civilization (1927), which he co-wrote with his wife, Mary Beard; and The American Spirit (1942).

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Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907 – November 6, 2000) Click here author - Click here ,Click here books, non-fiction and Click here.

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Click hereClick hereClick here (1909 – Click here/1955) US writer, film critic, and American writer (The African Queen) autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). novel A Death in the Family, and won the Pulitzer Prize (1957).

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"Buffalo" Bob Smith 1917- July 30 ,1998  Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody)

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Click here, born in Tampa, Florida (1935 filmmaker The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1969), Burden of Dreams (1982), Chulas Fronteras (1976), Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980), and All in This Tea (2007).

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Click here  (1937 – )  US writer ; journalist, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life.

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Click here ( 1942-  ) Click here Click here, translator and critic Presentation Piece

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     Villanelle for D.G.B.


Every day our bodies separate,
exploded torn and dazed.
Not understanding what we celebrate

we grope through languages and hesitate
and touch each other, speechless and amazed;
and every day our bodies separate

us farther from our planned, deliberate
ironic lives. I am afraid, disphased,
not understanding what we celebrate

when our fused limbs and lips communicate
the unlettered power we have raised.
Every day our bodies' separate

routines are harder to perpetuate.
In wordless darkness we learn wordless praise,
not understanding what we celebrate;

wake to ourselves, exhausted, in the late
morning as the wind tears off the haze,
not understanding how we celebrate
our bodies. Every day we separate.

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Click hereClick here  (1942 – Click here/1970)  US guitarist, singer, songwriter 'Hey Joe', 'Voodoo Chile', 'Electric Ladyland'. Hendrix who is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist in musical history made appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

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Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt (1941 – May 7, 1998)US country singer-songwriter and musician  'I Love A Rainy Night'. Elvis, Dr Hook and Tom Jones all recorded his songs.

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Barbara Anderson 1945 - Brooklyn, actress (Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible)
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Curtis Armstrong 1954-   US actor (Moonlighting)

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Click hereClick hereClick here  (1955 – )  US science guy

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Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg 1957 -  Click here Click here and Click here/  JFK's daughter

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Passed:

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Click here (Click here/0065 –0008 BC)  Italian writer poet & satirist   Satirae

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Click here  (Click here/1824 –1895)  French writer La dame aux camélias

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Click here (17 August, 1847-1922) Eng Victorian Poet

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Theodore Francis Powys (20 December 1875 –1953) British novelist and short-story writer.

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Click here   (Click here/1888 –1953)  US playwright -Nobel lit 1936

FREE

EARY am I of the tumult, sick of the staring crowd,

Pining for wild sea places where the soul may think aloud.

Fled is the glamour of cities, dead as the ghost of a dream,

While I pine anew for the tint of blue on the breast of the old Gulf Stream.

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;

I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame;

But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves,

Where the rainbows play in the flying spray,

'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Then it's ho! for the plunging deck of a bark, the hoarse song of the crew,

With never a thought of those we left or what we are going to do;

Nor heed the old ship's burning, but break the shackles of care

And at last be free, on the open sea, with the trade wind in our hair.

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Click here Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer ( Oct 18, 1898-1981 ) Singer  The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

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Click here   (Click here/1906 –1988)   US actor

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Click here (Sept 7, 1932-2000 ) Brit critic The History Man

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Click here  ( Feb 28, 1908- 2002) Actor
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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1931 –2007)   Canadian writer Desert of the Heart

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Click here  ( April 29,  1923-2010)  film dir The Empire Strikes Back

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Ken Russell July 3,1927-2011 Eng. Film Dir Altered States

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Sites:

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History:

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1966, The New Vaudeville Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Winchester Cathedral'

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1970, George Harrison released All Things Must Pass. The triple album included a number of songs that were left over from Beatle sessions, the set would go on to be certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle.

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Bonus Poem:

Another Sarah

          for Christopher Smart

When winter was half over
God sent three angels to the
apple-tree
Who said to her
"Be glad, you little rack
Of empty sticks,
Because you have been chosen.

In May you will become
A wave of living sweetness
A nation of white petals
A dynasty of apples."

                                                                     by Katherine Anne Porter

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