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April 12
Events coming-up:
April 14, Durham: As part of the New Hampshire Authors Series, Rebecca Rule will interview Willem Lange, author of the new children’s book The White-Footed Mouse. Recorded live by New Hampshire Public Television. At 2 p.m., fifth floor reading room, Dimond Library, UNH. This event is free, but seating is limited. Register online at www.unh.edu. For more information, email nh.authors.unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540.
April 14, Dublin NH Spring Oracles 2013,at Del Rossi’s Trattoria, 2:30 p.m.Social/Sign-up,
3 p.m. Open Reading Feature poets: Chinese poet Janghe Ouyang (Doubled Shadows)
Maudelle Driskell (Poetry, Kenyon Review, founding editor, The Atlanta Review) (tentative)
Donation Route 137N, Dublin, N.H. 603-563-7195
April 15 Rye, 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Rye– Danielle Jacobowitz Open mike fiction and poetry 25 Sagamore Road (John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).
April 16 Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 –Feature & OpenMic Enjoy a full kitchen and bar Contact: Beau Williams 317design.gmail.com http://facebook.com/boetwilliams
April 17 Concord, 7pm , Gibson’s Bookstore featured poets Nancy Bailey Miller & Pat Callan. Open mic follows. All are welcome, newcomers are encouraged! (arrive early to ensure a spot on the sign-up sheet). Street:27 S Main St http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/psnh-nancy-bailey-miller-pat-callan
Additional: City: April 18 National Poetry Day! Effingham 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Writers' Night - Features Sky King and music by Jim Pittman and Martha Nichols of Any Day Now.
followed by open mike (folks are encouraged to read Walter Butts poems at open mic)
(http://effingham.lib.nh.us, 539-7694, or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com
April 18th Portsmouth Teen Writer's Beat Night with special guest David Amram The Beat Night Band Larry Simon – electric guitar ,Scip Gallant – keyboards, Cynthia Chatis – woodwinds, Chris Stambaugh – bass, Mike Barron – drums, Frank Laurino – percussion 7-8pm, There is a $5 admission for this evening's special performance. Followed by The Open Mic 8-9 pm hosted by Tammi Truax Bruce Pingree at brucepingree.gmail.com. The Press Room 77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-5186 www.pressroomnh.com , www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )
April 20--Deerfield COFFEE HOUSE, Dave Surrette and Suzie Burke Deerfield Town Hall, Deerfield , NH 7:30 pm 603-463-9804 or leslie.vanberkumnursery.com
April 20 Dunbarton, The Spireside Coffee House at the Dunbarton Congregational Church will feature Steve Redic !!Doors open by 7:00 PM to sign up for the Open Mic which starts at 7:30. We welcome Poets, Storytellers and all styles of music! delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. Visit www.dccucc.org or email Lizz.dccucc.org for more information.
April 21 Portsmouth Riverrunbooks - 5:00 pm celebrate national poetry month with a reading featuring poets Gibson Fay-Leblanc And Christopher Locke. http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
April 22 Earth Day Farmington Goodwin Library Writer’s And Poet’s Project 6 PM In honor of Earth Day the theme will be about nature, spring, the Earth, and new found reflection or renewal. http://farmingtonnhpoetandwriterproject.blogspot.com/
April 22, Wolfeboro Public Library, 6:30 pm. Featured Readers: Barbara Bald & Charlotte Cox in "Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward," plus open mike.
April 23 Franconia World Book Night The Frost Place will distribute free books as a part of World Book Night. We are proud be a part of the movement helping to spread the love of reading, person to person, in our local community. http://frostplace.org/
April 23 Portsmouth - Shakespeare’s birthday http://7stagesshakes.wordpress.com/programs/shakespeares-day/
April 25 Newmarket Crackskulls Open Mic rte 108 Newmarket , sign-ups start at 7 follwing open mic ,a feature, Hosted by Jenn Monroe 7-8:30pm 659-8181www.thepoetgirl.com!
Born:
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Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (1550- 24 June 1604) Elizabethan courtier, playwright, lyric poet, sportsman and patron of the arts
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/patron.cfm?PeopleListID=550
http://theotherpages.org/poems/vere01.html#2
http://www.deverecode.com/dvchome.html?gclid=CKWh8prmxLYCFRMInAodnGsAWg
Henry Clay, (1777 – 06/29/1852) US Secretary of State ;U.S. SenatOR, - the author of some important compromises between slave and free states, earning him the title, "the great compromiser”
http://henryclay.org/
Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin Charteris (1907-April16,1993) Eng- American mystery-adventure writer (The Saint)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/charteri.htm
Lionel Hampton (1908 – 08/31/2002) US jazz percussion great /first time jazz was ever played on vibes
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lionel-hampton-mn0000833150
Emil [Theodore] Petaja, 1915 –Aug 17,2000 US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane)
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/petaja_emil
Beverly Cleary (1916) American Children's book writer
http://www.beverlycleary.com/
Carol Emshwiller (1921- ) American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction the Nebula Award , Philip K. Dick Award.
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/emshwiller_carol
http://www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller/
Tiny Tim (1932 – 11/30/1996) US singer 1968 ‘Tiptoe Through The Tulips’.
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-last-days-of-tiny-tim
Elechi Amadi (1934-) Nigerian educator, novelist, dramatist, writing in English; has also translated Protestant prayers and hymns
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/amadi.htm
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (1939) British playwright/ writer Absent Friends (1975), The Norman Conquests (1977), Absurd Person Singular (1973), Intimate Exchanges (1985) and, Comic Potential (2000) House & Garden (2000 )
http://www.alanayckbourn.net/
Toi Derricotte 1941- ,US Poet, Writer
http://www.toiderricotte.com/
http://www.cavecanempoets.com/
http://www.creativewriting.pitt.edu/people/faculty/toi-derricotte
B: Amazing! I did not think that they could speak this tongue.Tom Clancy (1947- ) American adventure and espionage novelist
http://www.tomclancy.com/
David Letterman (1947 – ) US comic
http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/bios/29714
Gary Soto, (1952) American Writer/ Poet
http://www.garysoto.com/
When I was Sixteen
I asked Richard, “What did you do yesterday?”
He said, “I helped my brother hang Barbara
Over the balcony.” I could see this,
Richard’s older brother, mean at heart,
Holding his wife Barbara by one leg
And she screaming, “Stop it! Stop it.”
Her dress would be around her head
Like a parachute, and he and Richard
Laughing at the sight of her girdle.
This was 1965, no hippie fun at all,
Though we had drawn happy faces
In the dirt yard. I ate an orange,
Tossed the peels to the chickens,
Slowly got up, and left on my bicycle.
In truth, I loved Richard’s brother’s wife,
But destroyed in my mind
From then on she was the young bride
Hanging over the balcony,
Her crying muffled by the dress
Around her face, a veil of shame.
http://www.tupelopress.org/books/humannature
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30743.Gary_Soto
Passed:
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Thomas Stanley (1678) Eng. Philosopher /trans./ poet
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_Stanley
William Kent, (1685 – 1748) English gardener painter, sculptor, and architect
http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/william_kent
Pietro Metastasio (01/03/1698 –1782) Italian writer poet
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pietro-metastasio-mn0002200375
Clara Barton (12/25/1821 -1912) US humanitarian, Red Cross founder
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/clara-barton.html
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (01/30/1882 –1945) US President (32)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fdroosevelt.html
Alan Paton (01/11/1903 –1988) South African writer Cry, the Beloved Counry
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/apaton.htm
Abbie Hoffman (11/30/1936 –1989) US writer, '60s revolutionary
http://users.wpi.edu/~cityofwords/hoffman.html
James Schuyler (Nov 9, 1923 - 1991 - US poet (Pulitzer 1980)
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/james-schuyler-poems-other-flowers/
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1120
COMING NIGHT
It darkens brother
and your crutch tip grinds
the gravel the deer stepped delicately along
one breakfast, you were a kid.
Mother says after thirty
decades clip by
“and then you have the sum”
or spent it.
What was it like when the car
swerved on the ice,
what did you think of,
how long did you wait
in the wreck with the pain?
I see the sumacs by the turning space
turn their lank leaves,
the railway moves to us
and the willows below us
and think of you turning nineteen,
of the deer, the sumac, trains, a wreck.
http://sienese-shredder.com/2/james_schuyler-poems.html
Sites:
http://www.32poems.com/blog
http://www.artstreamstudios.com/
http://eh.net/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100024006/ten-myths-about-margaret-thatcher-exploded/
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/
http://katesavage.com/index.htmlISS
http://www.everseradio.com/koi-pond-in-slow-motion-by-alexander-long/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EverseRadio+%28E-Verse+Radio%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
http://theotherpages.org/poems/drayton2.html
History:
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1776, North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1857, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. published
http://www.amazon.com/Gustave-Flaubert/e/B000APWNZA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365758405&sr=8-1
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27575/27575-h/27575-h.htm
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, published
http://www.amazon.com/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald/e/B000AQ0J28/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365758452&sr=1-1
http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/
1936 Dylan Thomas met his wife Caitlin McNamara
http://www.dylanthomas.com/index.cfm?articleid=5399
1954, Bill Haley recorded 'Rock Around The Clock' at Pythian Temple studios in New York City.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-around-the-clock-mw0000696907
1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin ,Soviet cosmonaut / first human in space /Vostok 1
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/vostok1.htm
1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his Corvette
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jan-dean-mn0000213165
http://www.rogerscorvette.com/specs/65.htm
1969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "The Boxer"
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Simon+%26+Garfunkel+
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/simon-amp-garfunkel-mn0000038936
1981The first mission of the space transport system (STS-1) or the Columbia Space Shuttle, flew
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter12.html
Bonus Poem:
The Net of Memory
I cast the Net of Memory,
Man's torment and delight,
Over the level Sands of Youth
That lay serenely bright,
Their tranquil gold at times submerged
In the Spring Tides of Love's Delight.
The Net brought up, in silver gleams,
Forgotten truth and fancies fair:
Like opal shells, small happy facts
Within the Net entangled were
With the red coral of his lips,
The waving seaweed of his hair.
We were so young; he was so fair.
Laurence HopeWhite men in business suits
Last Poems, Translations from the Book of Indian Love Laurence Hope [Adela Florence Cory "Violet" Nicolson]a dollar or two without stopping. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5125/pg5125.html
Brown men in work-soiled khakis
stand with their mouths open,
arms crossed on their bellies
WHISPERS OF THE HEART is artist and author J. Allen Wilson's second book of poetry.It can be autographed and shipped within 48 hours of order. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
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