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EVENTS:

October 15, Peterborough: Monadnock Writers' Group Speaker Series will host poet bg Thurston, who will read from her poetry collection, Nightwalking. At 9:45 a.m., Peterborough Town Library (www.monadnockwriters.org).

October 14-16, Brattleboro, VT: The Tenth Annual Brattleboro Literary Festival will dedicate three days to celebrating books. Events will include readings, panel discussions, workshops, and more. Authors participating will include Andre Aciman and Alexi Zentner. All events, except workshops, are free. If you want to volunteer or have questions, email bookfest.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org (www.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org).

Oct 15 , Jaffrey, NH.  Audio Graffiti Poetry Series/ poetry open mic and featured poet ; pot luck dinner at 7pm, followed at 8pm by the open mic and feature. There is a $3 donation at the door. at MindFull Books & Ephemera at 29 Main Street in Jaffrey, NH. at brandi_603.hotmail.com or send me a message at www.facebook.com/audiograffiti.

These Just In :

Boston, Oct 15, The Boston Book Festival  FREE The Boston Book Festival  2 Canal Park  Cambridge, MA 02141(617) 252-3240  E: info.bostonbookfest.org  http://www.bostonbookfest.org/

Portsmouth, Oct. 20th  •  7:00 - 8:00   PM BEAT NIGHT- An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word accompanied by   Live Music featuring writers from The Wire- Accompanied byThe Larry Simon Ensemble followed by the open mic with Tammi Truex /Chris Elliot  The Press Room 77 Daniel St Portsmouth NH   Phone (603)   431-5186

 Effingham Oct 20 Writers Night at The  Effingham Public Library 7pm- presenting poet/songwriter, Arthur Surrette and Wonalancet poet, Peggy Johnson . followed by Open Mic- Light refreshments Effingham Public Library (539-1537) is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham. For more information, contact Katie McCarthy, 539-7694.

Oct. 25 Washington, D.C. Birthday Celebration for American Poet John Berryman,

The Library of Congress will celebrate the birthday of American poet John Berryman, who would have been 97 this year, with a reading of his work by award-winning poets Mary Jo Bang and Michael Collier. The celebration will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Whittall Pavilion on the ground level of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are needed.

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-185.html

BIRTHDAYS:

October 15

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (0070 – 09/21/0019 BC)  Roman writer / poet

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/virgil.htm

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html

http://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilEclogues.html

Allan Ramsay 1686?- 7 January, 1750 Scot Augustan poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/273.html

Amiel Weeks Whipple, 1816 – 1863 Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19694
Irvin McDowell, 1818 – 1885 Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWmcdowell.htm

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson 1830 – 08/12/1885 ; American novelist

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/175.html

http://www.nndb.com/people/677/000101374/

Henry Harrison Walker, 1832 – 1912 Brig General (Confederate Army),
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4876
Thomas Lafayette Rosser, 1836 – 1910  Mjr General (Confederate Army),

http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/rosser.html

Severi Nuormaa (1865-1924)    Finnish journalist, educator and poet

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/severin.htm

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche  (1844 – 08/25/1900) German writer, philosopher
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nietzsch.htm

http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/nietzsche.shtml

(Sir) P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse (1881 – 02/14/1975)  English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pgwod.htm

http://wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com/

http://www.wodehouse.org/

http://www.thelooniverse.com/books/plum/plumpoems.html

The Pessimist

THEY tell me that the weather's fair,

The day serene and balmy;

No more for rain need I prepare --

No chilly blast shall harm me.

They prate of 'warmth', of 'gentle glows',

They rave of how sublime it is;

I shake my head, as one who knows

Just what the British climate is.

They say the trees are growing green,

That flowers are in bloom,

That bees and butterflies are seen;

They bid me quit my room.

My hat and boots to me they bear.

They tell me what crime it is

To stay indoors; but I'm aware

Just what the British climate is.

The tale they tell is just the same

They told in days of yore.

I know the weather's deadly game --

I've seen it played before.

I call it deadly: well, to those

By nature such as I'm, it is.

One suffers much before one knows

Just what the British climate is.

This is my fixed resolve -- to keep

Thick clothing always handy,

Add extra blankets when I sleep,

And not run short of brandy.

I wager we'll be having snow

Before midsummer-time it is.

I'll take no risks. I chance to know

Just what the British climate is.

http://swimtwobirds.org/plum/

Archbishop William Temple  (1881 – 10/26/1944)   English archbishop, writer

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REtempleW.htm

Ilya Ilf (1897-37)     Russian writer and journalist- co-wrote with Yevgeny Petrov (pseudonym of Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ilf.htm

Enrique Jardiel Poncela  (1901 – 02/12/1952)  Spanish writer

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7396213

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418600/

(Baron) C[harles] P[ercy] Snow (1905 – 07/01/1980)  British novelist and scientist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811243/

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/are_we_beyond_the_two_cultures/

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/authors/135

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/charles-percy-snow/

John Kenneth Galbraith  (1908 – 04/29/2006)  Canadian-US economist and political writer

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Galbraith.html

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), historian and winner of the 1946 Pulitzer

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/billyspencer2000/schlesinger.htm&date=2009-10-25+13:36:32

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/obituaries/02schlesinger.html

Kari Suomalainen (1920-98) Finnish political cartoonist, artist, conservative

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kari.htm

Mario Puzo  (1921 – 07/02/1999)  US writer

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mpuzo.htm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0701374/

Italo Calvino  (1923 – 09/19/1985)  Italian writer -Journalist, short story writer and novelist, experimental writer   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calvino.htm

http://des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/

Lee Iacocca  (1924 – )  US businessman

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9839029

http://www.nndb.com/people/988/000022922/

http://books.google.com/books?id=UrUDoIDN2voC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Milorad Pavic (1929-2009) Serbian novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, and literary historian

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4995

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pavic.htm

Evan Hunter (1926), Ed McBain crime writer

http://www.crimetime.co.uk/interviews/edmcbain.html

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/ed-mcbain/

PASSED:

October 15

Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, 1595 - Persian-Dutch E indies poet

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faizi/103733166332331

http://www.poemhunter.com/faiz-ahmed-faiz/

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, 1658-1730 , French explorer

http://www.historydetroit.com/people/antoine_cadillac.asp
Alfred Moore, 1755- 1810 American judge

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1673&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na

Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August ,1802-38)Eng writer /  poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/192.html

Ivan Dmitriev, 1760-1837 Russian statesman and poet

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivan-Dmitriev/107350439294323

Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, 1837-1891 English writer

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:11082&dsID=vkelly2.pdf

Mata Hari  (08/07/1876 –1917) Dutch spy

http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/matahari.htm
William Soutar (1898 -1943) Scot poet

Song

End is in beginning;
And in beginning end:
Death is not loss, nor life winning;
But each and to each is friend.

The hands which give are taking;
And the hands which take bestow:
Always the bough is breaking
Heavy with fruit or snow.

http://www.fife.50megs.com/william-soutar-poetry.htm

Philip Mechanicus,   1889-1944  journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau

http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/529264?lang=en

Cole Porter  (06/09/1892 –1964) US songwriter
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=12257

http://www.nndb.com/people/482/000022416/

Boris Marshalov  (01/17/1898 –1967) Russian writer

http://thethoughtsofroger.blogspot.com/2007/10/boris-marshalov-died-today-40-years-ago.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551252/

James Phillip McAuley (1917 -1976) Australian poet

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcauley-james-phillip-10896

Winter Morning

Spring stars glitter in the freezing sky,
Trees on watch are armoured with frost.
In the dark tarn of a mirror a face appears.
Time is moving through displacements.
Hungrily the blind earthworm burrows
Deeper into its night. Surely
Heaven must ache with all its vacancies.
A dog’s howl is thrown up like a rope-trick.
It is an hour for prayer without words.

http://www.poemhunter.com/james-phillip-mcauley/poems/

Cleveland Amory  (09/02/1917 –1998)  US writer ("The Cat Who...")
http://activistcash.com/biography.cfm/b/3383-cleveland-amory

Vincent Canby  (07/27/1924 –2000)  US film critic

http://movies.nytimes.com/movies/critics/Vincent-Canby

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, ( 1914- 2008  ) Turkish poet

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sibel/poetry/poems/fazil_husnu_daglarca/english/echo

SITES:

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/

http://www.vtstateparks.com/

http://off-the-coast.com/OTC_summer2011_reviews.html

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/

http://gutenberg.net.au/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20404/20404-h/20404-h.htm

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/home-accueil.aspx

http://www.everseradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Metal_periodic_table.jpg

BONUS POEM:

SUNSET

I saw the day lean o'er the world's sharp edge
And peer into night's chasm, dark and damp;
High in his hand he held a blazing lamp,
Then dropped it and plunged headlong down the ledge.

With lurid splendor that swift paled to gray,
I saw the dim skies suddenly flush bright.
'Twas but the expiring glory of the light
Flung from the hand of the adventurous day.

                                                    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16776/16776-h/16776-h.htm#SONNET