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Strafford Notes, 3 March 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013 6:51:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Sunday here, more poems and stuff from Skip

March 3
Events later this week:
March 7th, Wells Maine, Wesley McNair, poet and author 4:30 p.m All events are held annually at York County Community College and all events are free. 112 College Drive in Wells, Maine
http://www.yccc.edu/WhatWeOffer/VisitingArtistSeries
March 7th Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , www.facebook.com/slamfreeordie
030713 Rochester Portable Pantry Hanson St ; Feature and Open Mic
March 8 Boston Salmon Poetry Reception 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. AWP at https://www.awpwriter.org/ Reception Room 303, Reception Space - 4-1460, Hynes
Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA 900 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
http://www.salmonpoetry.com/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/events/182776038528235/permalink/216516531820852/#!/PoeticIvy
http://www.advantageboston.com/events/event-calendar.aspx
March 8 Laconia, at the Beane Conference Center; Fundraiser for the dog park
35 Blueberry Ln Laconia, NH 03246 http://www.beanecenter.com/
This Just In!
March 9 Exeter (2nd Saturday) Exeter Contra Dance Music by Stone Soup and Ricky Holt workshop qt 7:30,dance 8-11 dontion $6. Children $3 Info 603-670- 1915

Born:
0303
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-20 Aug ,1648 ) 17th century Eng royalty/poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/elegy-over-tomb

Sir William D'Avenant (1606-April 7, 1668) Eng “page’ /Poet Laureate: 13 December 1638
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/davenant-sir-william

Edmund Waller (1606 – 10/21/1687) English writer Go, Lovely Rose
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/waller-edmund

Thomas Otway (1652 – 04/14/1685) English writer -dramatist Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21515/21515-h/21515-h.htm
http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/otway001.html

William Godwin (1756 – 04/07/1836) English writer [in the early 1800s he served as a mentor to poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and most notably Percy Bysshe Shelley, until Shelley eloped with his daughter, Mary Shelley].An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/godwin/Godwinarchive.html

John Frederick William Herschel (1829 –May 11,1871) Eng Victorian astronomer-poet-translation of works by Schiller, Bürger, Homer (Iliad), and Dante. Also Outlines of Astronomy (1849)& Essays (1857).
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/herschel-john-frederick-william

Alexander Graham Bell, 1847- . Scottish -American-Canadian inventor He was a founding member of AT&T in 1885 and the National Geographic Society in 1888. Units of Measure -sound (bel, decibel)
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/11.html

Arthur Machen 1863 – 15 December 1947) Welsh author and mystic The Great God Pan
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/machen.html

Emile-Auguste Chartier “Alain” (1868 – 06/02/1951)\ French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist.
http://www.normandie-heritage.com/spip.php?article477

David Lindsay (1876 – 16 July 1947)_Scottish author A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).
http://www.violetapple.org.uk/

Edward Thomas (1878- 9 April ,1917) Eng [Welsh} Poet/soldier
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/thomas-edward
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22423/pg22423.html

Ring Lardner, Sr. (1885 – 09/25/1933) US writer DISCIPLINE
http://www.online-literature.com/ring-lardner/

Yury Olesha(1899-May 10, 1960) Russian/ Ukrainian Writer, journalist, and playwright, , Zavist' (1927, Envy)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/olesha.htm

Rabbe Enckell (1903- June 17, 1974) Fin /Swed. Writer and painter
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/renckell.htm

James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan, (1920 –7/20, 2005)Canadian character and voice actor Scotty on Star Trek
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/doohan_james

James Merrill (1926-Feb .6,1995), US poet/playwright -1976 Pulitzer Prize, Ingram Merrill Foundation; First Poems, 1951 Nights and Days National Book Award for Poetry 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1977 for Divine Comedies Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1973
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3154/the-art-of-poetry-no-31-james-merrill
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-merrill

Jennifer Warnes 1947- US Singer songwriter The Time of My Life
http://www.jenniferwarnes.com/

from The Right Time Of The Night

Sun goes down on a silky day
Quarter moon walkin' thru the Milky Way
oh you and me baby
We could think of somethin' to do...
…………………………

No use talking when the shadows fall,
night words callin'and he says it all.
You and me baby
We could think of somethin' to do...
………………………..

I got you, you got me
Tell you, that's the way my momma
Always said it should be
I'll be cruel, you'll be kind
We'll be bad, if you don't mind

It's the right time of the night
The stars are winkin' above
It's the right time of the night
For makin' love

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jennifer-warnes-mn0000267505

Robyn Hitchcock (1953 – ) English singer, songwriter The Soft Boys
http://www.robynhitchcock.com/

Ira Glass( 1959 -) US host of "This American Life" on PBS
http://www.avclub.com/articles/ira-glass,13841/

Tone- Loc (Antony Smith), ( 1966- ) US rapper
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tone-loc-mn0000621639
Passed:
0303
George Herbert (April 3,1593- 1633) Welsh-English Deacon /poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/herbert-george

Lady Marguerite Blessington (09/01/1789 –1849) Irish writer
https://www.google.com/search?q=Marguerite+Blessington

Georges Perec (March 7,1936-1982) Fr. Novelist La Vie: mode d'emploi
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=3/3/2013
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/perec.htm
http://people.lib.ucdavis.edu/~davidm/xcpUrbanFeel/neural.html

Arthur Koestler (09/05/1905 –1983) Hungarian Eng. Author, Journalist, Philosopher Darkness at Noon
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/koestler.htm

Karel Kryl (April 12, 1944–1994 Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs
http://www.karelkryl.com/

John Edward Williams (August 29, 1922 - 1994) American author, editor and professor. Stoner (1965) and Augustus (1972)-U.S. National Book Award
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/05/obituaries/john-williams-71-a-novelist-editor-and-professor-of-english.html

Marguerite Duras (04/04/1914 –1996) French writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/duras.htm

Ivor Cutler (Jan15, 1923-2006) Scot poet, musician, actor {Cutler found an avid fan in John Lennon, who persuaded him to take the role of Buster Bloodvessel in the Beatles vehicle Magical Mystery Tour (1967).}Glasgow Dreamer
Poems For Ivor Cutler # 3

I walk uphill to get groceries.

At the top of the hill, it goes down

and there’s the store in a small valley.

Then I walk back uphill and down, home;

though, sometimes, I have a pot of tea

half-way, when the ground flattens itself.

I see cows on these pleasant journeys;

and I hear birds. I lean on my stick.

I’d like life to go on for ever

as long as it doesn’t change too much

or get busy or run out of tea.

On good days, I go uphill again,

leaving my things to eat behind me.

I go past the store and then uphill

then downhill until the road turns left.

There is a good place to sit near there.

Lawrence Upton
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Norman Smith (nicknamed "Normal Norman" by John Lennon) (Feb 22,1923 -2008), engineer who worked on every studio recording The Beatles' made between 1962 and 1965 was. As a producer in 1966, he signed Pink Floyd and produced their early albums including Saucerful of Secrets
http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/norman-smith/
Sites:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
http://www.lrb.co.uk/
http://www.ericpinder.com/
http://www.vassar.edu/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/
History:
0303
1802, Ludwig van Beethoven published Sonata number 14 in C Sharp Minor, Opus 27, number 2 - the Moonlight Sonata
http://www.allmusic.com/composition/piano-sonata-no-14-in-c-sharp-minor-moonlight-op-27-2-mc0002373304
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck
1859, "The Weeping Time" ; largest recorded slave auction in U.S. history- 436 men, women, and children
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar03.html
1915, premier of D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
1966, Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/buffalo-springfield-mn0000939567

Bonus Poem:
Sonnet

LIKE an enfranchised bird, that wildly springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glancing eye,
And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
Up to the blue vault of the happy sky,—
So my enamored heart, so long thine own,
5
At length from Love’s imprisonment set free,
Goes forth into the open world alone,
Glad and exulting in its liberty:
But like that helpless bird (confined so long,
His weary wings have lost all power to soar)
10
Who soon forgets to trill his joyous song,
And, feebly fluttering, sinks to earth once more,—
So from its former bonds released in vain,
My heart still feels the weight of that remembered chain.

By Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877)

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