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EVENTS:

 

Effingham, Oct. 20:  Writers Night – Features, followed by an open mike, at the Effingham Public Library, 7-9 p.m. (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, Katie McCarthy at katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com and 539-7694, or Marilyn O'Kelly at marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us and 539-1537).

 

Manchester, Oct. 20: Slam Free or Die – open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com, facebook.com/slamfreeordie)

 

Portsmouth, Oct. 20: Beat Night – Features followed by open mike at the Press Room, 7-9 p.m. (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom)

 

 

This just in-

Concord, NH ,October 23, 7-9  p.m.  NH Book Festival:  U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will receive the second annual award of the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry, and  will read her poems. St. Paul's Church, Concord, NH, Tickets are $10 general admittance and $5 for students.            

https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/nhwp/news.jsp?news=5

 

 

 

 

BIRTHDAYS:

October 20

Lord Palmerston   (1784 – 10/18/1865)   English statesman

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

Thomas Hughes  (1823 – 03/22/1896)  English writer

http://hymntime.com/tch/bio/h/u/g/hughes_t.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=645

Daniel Owen (1836 – 22 October, 1895), Welsh novelist  

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1356496.Daniel_Owen

Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 11/10/1891)  French poet and adventurer

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

John Dewey  (1859 – 06/01/1952)  US educator, philosopher  

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

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=446

Bela Lugosi  (1882 – 08/16/1956)  Hungarian actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000509/

Jelly Roll Morton Ferdinand Joseph Lamenthe ,1890-1941, . American jazz composer and pianist

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/composer-jelly-roll-morton-ragtime-early-jazz

Will Rogers Jr. 1911-10 July 1993,   US Pol /actor  

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736688/

Leslie Purnell Davies (1914 – 6 January 1988) British novelist of horror, science fiction and mystery.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?L._P._Davies

http://thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/search?q=leslie+purnell+davies

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/l-p-davies/

Philip Whalen (1923-2002) US Zen Poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/philip-whalen

http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Sagan-PhilipWhalenHaiku.html

Robert Pinsky (1940- ) US Poet, critic former U.S. Poet Laureate

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-pinsky

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/pinsky/pinsky.htm

Elfriede Jelinek 1946- Austrian novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in literature in 2004 

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

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/180170

Art Buchwald  (1925 – 01/18/2007)  US journalist - newspaper columnist and author

http://www.biography.com/people/art-buchwald-9230341

Dr. Joyce Brothers  (1928 – )  US Psychologist columnist

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Brothers.html

Frederick Dannay Daniel Nathan (1905 – 09/03/1982)  US mystery writer ("Ellery Queen,"

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6823242

Mickey Mantle  (1931 – 08/13/1995)  US baseball great

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mantlmi01.shtml

Wanda Jackson  (10/20/1937 – )  US singer
http://wandajackson.com/

Lewis Grizzard  (1946 – 03/20/1994)  US comic 

http://www.lewisgrizzard.com/

Tom Petty  (1953 – )  US singer, songwriter

 

         "Breakdown"

It's all right if you love me
It's all right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you running away
Honey, I've got the feeling you won't

There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do
We said all there is to say

Baby Breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I standin' here can't you see
Breakdown, it's all right
It's all right
It's all right

 

http://www.nndb.com/people/100/000025025/

Snoop Dogg  (1972 – )  US rapper

http://www.snoopdogg.com/

 

 

 

PASSED:

 

 

 

Charles Babbage   (12/26/1792 –1871)   English mathematician  

 http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/babbage.htm

Sir Richard Francis Burton  (03/19/1821 –1890)  English writer

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=898

Naim Frashëri, (1846- 1900 )  Albanian poet

http://www.frosina.org/about/infobits.asp?id=140

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sq&u=http://www.kosovarimedia.com/home/albakos/53-veprat-e-autoreve/188-naim-frasheri-poezi.html&ei=TPufTqD1Dun20gHF1NTWBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CE0Q7gEwBA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnaim%2Bfrash%25C3%25ABri%2Bpoezi%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422%26prmd%3Dimvnso

James A. Froude  (04/23/1818 –1894)  English historian

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4068/4068-h/4068-h.htm
Charles Dudley Warner  (09/12/1829 –1900)  US writer

http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/warner.htm

B[ithia] M[ary] Croker 1860? – 1920 British writer

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/croker.html

Eugene Debs  (11/05/1855 –1926)  US labor organizer

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

Annie Sullivan  (04/14/1866 – 10/20/1936)  US educator
http://www.afb.org/annesullivan/

Henry Stimson  (09/21/1867 –1950)  US Secretary of War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAstimson.htm

Herbert Hoover  (08/10/1874 –1964)  US President (31))

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/herberthoover

James Leo Herlihy , 1927-93 novelist (Midnight Cowboy)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379052/

Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004   )  American poet

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anthony-hecht

http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/anthony_hecht_2004_9.pdf

After the Rain

 

                                                                                                               for W D Snodgrass

 

The barbed-wire fences rust

As their cedar uprights blacken

After a night of rain.

Some early, innocent lust

Gets me outdoors to smell

The teasle, the pelted bracken,

The cold, mossed-over well,

Rank with its iron chain,

 

And takes me off for a stroll.

Wetness has taken over.

From drain and creeper twine

It’s runnelled and trenched and edged

A pebbled serpentine

Secretly, as though pledged

To attain a difficult goal

And join some important river.

 

The air is a smear of ashes

With a cool taste of coins.

Stiff among misty washes,

The trees are as black as wicks,

Silent, detached and old.

A pallor undermines

Some damp and swollen sticks.

The woods are rich with mould.

 

How even and pure this light!

All things stand on their own,

Equal and shadowless,

In a world gone pale and neuter,

Yet riddled with fresh delight.

The heart of every stone

Conceals a toad, and the grass

Shines with a douse of pewter.

 

Somewhere a branch rustles

With the life of squirrels or birds,

Some life that is quick and right.

This queer, delicious bareness,

This plain, uniform light,

In which both elms and thistles,

Grass, boulders, even words,

Speak for a Spartan fairness,

 

Might, as I think it over,

Speak in a form of signs,

If only one could know

All of its hidden tricks,

Saying that I must go

With a cool taste of coins

To join some important river,

Some damp and swollen Styx.

 

Yet what puzzles me the most

Is my unwavering taste

For these dim, weathery ghosts,

And how, from the very first,

An early, innocent lust

Delighted in such wastes,

Sought with a reckless thirst

A light so pure and just.

http://oddityandlight.posterous.com/after-the-rain-by-anthony-hecht

 

Peg Bracken  (02/25/1918 –2007)  US writer
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/22/print/main3389846.shtml

 

Sites:

 

http://webpages.charter.net/hobblebush/pages/catalog.html

http://maildogmanager.com/page.html?p=0000015Fu8vmpW3Too1QKAjeYtmJuUjLRukklOghJOtw==&email=tunamelttunafeet.yahoo.com

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/leggott.html#OCNZL

http://www.squidoo.com/heckava-haiku

 

 

BONUS POEM:

 

                 Gold Leaves

Someone ought to write about (I thought
and therefore do) stage three of alchemy:
not inauspicious metal turned into
a gilded page, but that same page turned back
to basics when you step outside for air
and feel a radiance that was not there
the day before, your sidewalks lined with gold.

 

                   -Rachel Wetzsteon

Silver Roses
Persea Books