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Strafford Notes December 19, 20`1`1
Monday, December 19, 2011 12:43:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Take a minute, brew up a cup of tea, and see what happened tyoday in the lit'rary world.

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Events:

Dec 19 RYE, 3rd Mondays – 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Rye– Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, Click here ).

Born:

December 19

Su Tung Po, (1036-1101) Chinese poet and essayist /painter/calligrapher

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Click here (1778 – Click here/1868) English politician

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Sir William Parry 1790 -1855 Eng. Arctic explorer

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Manuel Breton de los Herreros 1796 - November 8, 1873 Spanish, poet/comic playwright

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Horatius Bonar, 1808 –JULY 31,1889 Scottish clergyman and poet. He authored several missionary biographies and penned over 600 hymns, including "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say."

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James Jay Archer 1817-1864 Brigadier-General (Confederate Army)

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James Clifford Veatch 1819-1895 Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)

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Click here (1820 – Click here/1905) US social reformer-anti-slavery/pro women's suffrage

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William Henry Draper, 1855 -1933 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter. His words to "All Creatures of Our God and King" are an English translation of a Latin text believed to have been penned by St. Francis of Assisi. Click here

Click here (1861- 1928 ; Italian writer / novelist 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner Oliver Lafarge (1901)

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It's the birthday of novelist and short-story writer Eleanor Hodgman Porter (Click here), born in Littleton, New Hampshire (1868). Beginning with her first novel, Cross Currents (1907), Porter was popular with readers, who loved her sentimental tales of orphaned heiresses and lost little girls. But her novel Pollyanna (1913), about a young girl who looks for the good in even the most dire hardships, eclipsed them all, spending two years on the best-sellers list and ultimately leading to a play, a movie, a calendar, and a daily almanac of reasons to be glad. Within a decade, the word "Pollyanna" entered the American lexicon, defined by Webster's Dictionary as "an excessively or blindly optimistic person" and one who is cheerful to a fault.

After the publication of a best-selling sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915), Porter became somewhat defensive about the character she'd created. She said: "You know I have been made to suffer from the Pollyanna books. ... People have thought that Pollyanna chirped that she was 'glad' at everything. ... I have never believed that we ought to deny discomfort and pain and evil; I have merely thought that it is far better to 'greet the unknown with a cheer.'" (Click here)

Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868- ). novelist and short-story writer from Littleton, New Hampshire

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Click here (1875 – Click here/1950) US historian (black studies)

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F. S. Flint (1885- February 28, 1960) ) Eng translator/poet (imagist movement)

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Click here(1906 – Click here/76) US writer- humorist/author ( Low Man on the Totem Pole)
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Click here(1906 – Click here/82) Russian statesman -1st Secretary of the Community Party/President of the USSR (1964-82)

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Click here (1910 – Click here/1986) French writer - novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)

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Jose Lezama Lima 1910- August 9, 1976 Cuban poet/novelist

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Click here [E Giovanna Gassion] (1915 – Click here/1963) French singer chanteuse (Little Sparrow)

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Anne Evelyn Click here (1928- ) Irish-born, Californian children's author

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Click here (1933 – ) US actor (Roots, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)

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Phil Ochs 1940 – April 9, 1976 El Paso TX, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)

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Changes

Sit by my side, come as close as the air,
Share in a memory of gray;
Wander in my words, dream about the Click here
That I play of changes.

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow they fade.
And then they have to die, trapped within
the circle time parade of changes.

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind,
Visions of shadows that shine.
Til Click here I returned and found they were the
Victims of the vines of changes.

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze,
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes.

Moments of magic will glow in the night
All fears of the forest are gone
But when the morning breaks they're swept away by
golden drops of dawn, of changes.

Passions will part to a strange melody.
As fires will sometimes burn cold.
Like petals in the wind, we're puppets to the silver
strings of souls, of changes.

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else,
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on
the rolling river shores of changes

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Jean-Patric Manchette 1942 -95 Fr.thriller writer

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Passed:

December 19

Vitus J Bering Aug,1681-1741 Dutch navigator/explorer

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Click here (Click here/1818-1848) English writer / Poet

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Henry Luttrell (1765? -1851) Eng dabbler/poet

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Charles Sangster (July 16, 1822(1822-07-16) -1893) Can Poet

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Alois Alzheimer June 14,1864-1915 German neurologist (first described Alzheimer's Disease)

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Click here ( 1862 -1947) Can Poet

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	THE WOOD BY THE SEA

I DWELL in the wood that is dark and kind But afar off tolls the main, Afar, far off I hear the wind, And the roving of the rain. The shade is dark as a palmer’s hood,		5

The air with balm is bland: But I wish the trees that breathe in the wood Were ashes in God’s hand. The pines are weary of holding nests, Are aweary of casting shade;		10

Wearily smoulder the resin crests In the pungent gloom of the glade. Weary are all the birds of sleep, The nests are weary of wings, The whole wood yearns to the swaying deep,		15

The mother of restful things. The wood is very old and still, So still when the dead cones fall, Near in the vale or away on the hill, You can hear them one and all,		20

And their falling wearies me; If mine the will of God,—O, then The wood should tramp to the sounding sea, Like a marching army of men! But I dwell in the wood that is dark and kind,		25

Afar off tolls the main; Afar, far off I hear the wind And the roving of the rain.

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Click here (Click here/1868 –1953) US physicist (Nobel 1923),
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Click here (Click here/1884 –1968) US social reformer / founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55)

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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Ernest K Gann October 13, 1910 -1991 US adventure novelist

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Michael Clarke June 13.1946 -1993 US 1^st drummer (Byrds)

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Click here (Click here/1924 –1996) Italian actor 8½, Assassin, Family Diary)

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Masaru Ibuka 1908-1997 co-founder (Sony Corp)

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Click here (Click here/1914 –1999) Welsh actor

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Sites:

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Bonus Poem:

how she knots it

I keep my pennies alive. Keep buttons and pins and other people’s Click here. Go home at night and

look at all my things.

put his heel on the rat’s head and killed it

Rat is not quiet and seems coy. I slept with a rat, slow poisoned a rat, called for help. It was large and

dead. I killed the rat.

the whole story of the home affairs

Abstinence and fainting. Figuring out what incognito really means. The park has a road that is a road,

pavement and social but not to be tread upon.

she used to be hoary

The opposite of white this time.

however those unhappy flowers are spelt

I will make room for the ranunculus, there are many parts of the ringlets and facets. Simple for the lichen

to mock the angel. You could chart everything by the organization of this tree.

-Dolly Lemke

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