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Strafford Notes, 27 February 2012
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:51:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I am on a new ISP and off AOL....Until I find out how all the bells and whistles work, all may not run smoothly.

FEB 27 Events:UnutherSnowday!....sigh…. FEB 27 Farmington – 6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington – Adult Poets and Writers Group (795-5944, http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/poetwrite.html Born: 0227 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - March 1882) US Poet http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb27.html http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/henry-wadsworth-longfellow http://www.online-literature.com/henry_longfellow/ http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Longfellow%2C%20Henry%20Wadsworth%2C%201807-1882 WOODS IN WINTER When winter winds are piercing chill, And through the hawthorn blows the gale, With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale. O'er the bare upland, and away Through the long reach of desert woods, The embracing sunbeams chastely play, And gladden these deep solitudes. Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung. Where, from their frozen urns, mute springs Pour out the river's gradual tide, Shrilly the skater's iron rings, And voices fill the woodland side. Alas! how changed from the fair scene, When birds sang out their mellow lay, And winds were soft, and woods were green, And the song ceased not with the day! But still wild music is abroad, Pale, desert woods! within your crowd; And gathering winds, in hoarse accord, Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud. Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long. Richard Garnett 1835– 13 April 1906) English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker) scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10095/10095-h/10095-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27770/27770-h/27770-h.htm Angelina Weld Grimke. (1880-1958) African-American poet, playwright, and author of first staged play by an African American. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/grimke/grimke.htm http://archive.org/stream/rachelplayinthre00grim/rachelplayinthre00grim_djvu.txt http://books.google.com/books?id=TEZjEbEwWAYC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=The+Closing+Door+By+Angelina+Weld+Grimk%C3%A9&source=bl&ots=LL7rdUS1eQ&sig=ia9oR_fOUnyXd58KKBRL3QuJ8ug&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YuUtUc_JMKHd2QWK1YCoCQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Closing%20Door%20By%20Angelina%20Weld%20Grimk%C3%A9&f=false Hugo L. Black (1886 – 09/25/1971) US Supreme Court(1937-1971) http://www.oyez.org/justices/hugo_l_black David Sarnoff (1891 – 12/12/1971) US inventor http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989773,00.html Marian Anderson (1897 – 04/08/1993) US singer -contralto; the first African American to be named a permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Anderson-Marian.htm John Steinbeck, (1902-Dec. 20,1968) US novelist and 1962 Nobelist http://www.amazon.com/John-Steinbeck/e/B000AQ2D1I/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1361908243&sr=8-1 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/steinbeck-bio.html James Thomas Farrell (1904 – 08/22/1979) US writer - novelist and short story writer ; Studs Lonigan trilogy of books (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan and Judgment Day), http://www.marxistsfr.org/history/etol/writers/farrell/index.htm http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1487 http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680915/PEOPLE/910129998 Peter DeVries (1910 – 09/28/1993) US editor and novelist The Tunnel of Love http://www.amazon.com/Peter-De-Vries/e/B001IQWPGW Lawrence Durrell (1912 – 11/07/1990) English writer- novelist, playwright - The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60). http://kirjasto.sci.fi/durrell.htm http://durrell2012.com/ Irwin Shaw[ Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff] (1913 – 05/16/1984) US writer -playwright, screenwriter, and author of international bestsellers The Young Lions (1948), Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ishaw.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789758/ Paul Ricoeur 1913- 2005 . French philosopher “Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ricoeur/ Kenneth Koch (1925 – 6 July 2002) American teacher, poet, and playwright ;Along with poets John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, part of the "New York School" of poetry in the 1950's. On the Great Atlantic Rainway http://www.kennethkoch.org/index.htm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kenneth-koch Guy Mitchell, 1927- July 1st 1999 , -US singer 1957 ‘Singing The Blues’ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/guy-mitchell-mn0000652598 Joanne Woodward (1930 – ) US actor http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1518 Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 03/23/2011) English-US actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000072/ Ralph Nader (1934 – ) US activist http://nader.org/ N. Scott Momaday 1934-. Native American Poet, novelist House of Dawn 1969 Pulitzer Prize http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/momaday/momaday.htm Chelsea Victoria Clinton 1980- Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton http://www.helium.com/items/2298314-biography-chelsea-clinton Josh Groban, 1981- US singer; 2002 album ‘Josh Groban’ 2004 album 'Closer'. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/josh-groban-mn0000275335 Passed: 0227 John Evelyn, (10/31/1620 – 1706) English writer http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/john%20evelyn.htm Henry Vaughan (1622-66) Welsh Physician Poet Peace http://www.poetseers.org/the-great-poets/the-metaphysical-poets/henry/ Ivan Pavlov (09/14/1849 –1936) Russian scientist http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html Yvan Goll, Isaac Lang (29 March 1891 - 1950), French-German poet The Salt Lake Like a winter animal the moon licks the salt from your hands Still your hair sparkles violet as the lilac bush From where the veteran screech owl calls There stands our long-sought dream city built just for us With streets all black and white You walk in the glitter-snow of promise While the rails of dark reason are laid out for me The houses are drawn with chalk against the sky And their doors are poured of lead Only up under the gables yellow candles grow Like nails for countless coffins Yet soon we reach the Salt Lake Where the long-billed kingfishers lie in wait All through the night I fight them with bare hands Until their warm down serves as our lair Translated by NAN WATKINS http://www.theadirondackreview.com/YVANGOLL.html Harry Cohn (07/23/1891 –1958) US film producer http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=89 John Dickson Carr (Nov 30,1906-1977) American author of detective stories http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jdcarr.htm Edward Dahlberg ( July 22,1900-1977)US Novelist & Essayist Because I Was Flesh http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edward-dahlberg http://www.amazon.com/Edward-Dahlberg/e/B001HCTXP8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1361963126&sr=1-2 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (July 5, 1902 –1985) Republican U S Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See (as Representative) ; Republican nominee for Vice President 1960 . http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/mep/displaydoc.cfm?docid=erpn-henlod Konrad Lorenz (11/07/1903 –1989) Austrian zoologist- http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/konrad_lorenz.html Sam I. Hayakawa (07/18/1906 –1992) Canadian-US semanticist;politician http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb5q2nb40v&doc.view=content&chunk.id=div00208&toc.dept.. Lillian Gish (10/14/1896 –1993) US actor http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/lilliangish.html Spike Milligan (04/16/1918 –2002) Brit comic- the godfather of alternative comedy http://www.spikemilligan.co.uk/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589711/ Mr Frederick McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 -2003) children's television host http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FredRogersStatueinPittsburghPA.jpg William F. Buckley (11/24/1925 –2008) US writer http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/12/william-f-buckley-jr-conservative-icon Sites: http://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/ http://www.decordova.org/ http://moonpie.com/ http://www.moma.org/ http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/ http://www.guernicamag.com/ http://www.beyondbandofbrothers.com/itineraries/ History: 0227 1812 Lord Byron spoke for the first time in the House of Lords http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=2/27/2013 1860, Mathew Brady photographed presidential aspirant Abraham Lincoln before his speech at Cooper Union (external link) in New York. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a09102/ http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm 1971, Five months after her death, Janis Joplin started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Pearl.' http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/janis_joplin Bonus Poem: THE BLUNDER Some god, quite irresponsible and young, Has jumbled time and place and dealt amiss: A day of Grecian spring-time he has flung Into this winter-bound Metropolis. O blessèd blunderer! To-day the air Is blue as the Aegean, soft as wine, And there are Tritons in Trafalgar Square And white-limbed Naiads in the Serpentine. To-day great Centaurs gallop down the Row; Hyde Park's a silver mist of olive-trees; And all the costers' barrows overflow With golden apples from the Hesperides. Hide, careless god! There'll be, without a doubt, Hades to pay in heaven when Zeus finds out! by "Jan Struther" http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/betsinda/betsinda.html#36

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