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Straffiord Notes, 4 March 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013 6:04:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Today's Strafford Notes...all the NH poetry news fit to print....

March 4
Events:
Portland Every Monday - Poetry On Tap . Mama's Crowbar 189 Congress St 9pm- ; an intimate uproar of poets and performance. This series hosts weekly local and national features presenting new work with a storyteller spin. There is a short open reading signup list.The reading includes a "no repeat" rule. The venue is 21+, beer only and cash only. http://www.facebook.com/mamascrowbar

March 4, Cambridge, MA: The Blacksmith House Poetry Series will feature Dana Levin and Alice Jones, who will read from their recent collections, respectively, Sky Burial and Plunge. Tickets cost $3 per person and may be purchased prior to the reading. At 8 p.m., Blacksmith House (617-547-6789; www.ccae.org)

March 4 Allentown 10AM Poetry Open Mic Suncook Senior Center, 10 School St.(the basement of the parish hall of St. Joan of Arc Church.) http://www.raymondfoss.com/

New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud 2012-2013 Competitions:
March 5 SNHU Frost Hall NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM*1
http://www.youvisit.com/college360.php?pano=2013&college=snhu&category=
March 7 Plymouth State University Boyd Auditorium NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM*1
http://www.plymouth.edu/
March 8 New England College Simon Center NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM*2
https://foursquare.com/v/simon-center/4e4ebb2a1f6eae4d250fe7bb
March 11 UNH Hennessey Theater NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM**
http://www.unh.edu/
March 15 The State House ,Concord,Representatives Hall NH Poetry Out Loud Finals 7PM***
*1 Snowdates March 9 ,10am * 2 Snowdates March 9, 1 pm **Snowdate March 12 ,7pm ***Snowdate March 18 7pm
Born:
0304
Charles Dibdin (1745 – 07/25/1814) English writer
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33324

Casimir Pulaski (1747 – Oct 15,1779) Count/American Revolutionary War general
http://www.poles.org/PulaskiBio.html

Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835- July 4,1910) Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
http://www.space.com/1583-mars-history-false-impressions.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7781/pg7781.html

Toru Dutt (1856 -30 August, 1877) Bengali/English and French Victorian poet and author

Sonnet
1Happy is he, who, like the Ithacan sage
2Or the brave hero of the golden fleece,
3Having far travelled, finds his troubles cease,
4Amidst his own, in ripe-experienced age.
5When shall I turn again to life's first page?
6From the world's tumult when obtain release?
7And greet the village and the home of Peace
8Where sweet affections quell each passion's rage?
9Dearer to me that home my grandsires built,
10Than Roman palaces with pillars brave,
11Dearer those roofs of slate than marble gilt,
12Dearer my Loire than Tiber's sacred wave,
13Dearer my Lyré than the Palatine,
14And oh how dear, thou climate Angevine!:
Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880): 1. Internet Archive
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/sonnet-0

Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 – 18 July 1944) English poet, author and artist. Silence Sings
http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/6344

Knute Rockne (1888 – 03/31/1931) US football great
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-29/sports/ct-spt-1230-rockne-notre-dame-legends--20121230_1_irish-football-knute-rockne-notre-dame

Robert Orben (1927 – ) US writer
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/robert_orben/

Thomas Sigismund Stribling, (1881 – July 8,1965) American writer
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stribling_t_s
Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo (1901/04?-1937) African Malagasy French poet (Enfants d'Orphée)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rabie.htm
George Gamow, (1904 - August 19, 1968) Russo-American nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...infinity)
http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001387.htm

Harry B Helmsley (1909 –Jan 4,1997) New York NY, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02292.html

Paul Mauriat, (1925- Nov 3,2006) , French, conductor, arranger, (1968 US No.1 single chart 'Love Is Blue')
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-mauriat-mn0000022574

Alan Sillitoe (1928-April 25,2010), British writer and poet - novelist, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) children's book writer, playwright and social critic ( The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1975)
http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Sillitoe/e/B000APHKAS

James "Jim" "Jimmy" Clark, Jr (1936 – 7 April 1968) British Formula One racing driver ;two World Championships- 1963 &1965; competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianapolis 500- won in 1965.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~garycr/2001/jim_clark_memorial/

James Ellroy, 1948 - American writer- crime novelist Brown's Requiem (1981). 1987, The Black Dahlia, the first in his L.A. Quartet series. The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), and White Jazz (1992)
http://jamesellroy.net/

Irina G. Ratushinskaya 1954- Russian poet , dissident , writer
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=3311.0
http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/five-songs-poems-irina-ratushinskaya#/3
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1987/may/07/an-interview-with-irina-ratushinskaya/?pagination=false

Khaled Hosseini (1965- ), Afghani-American author The Kite Runner (2003)
http://www.amazon.com/Khaled-Hosseini/e/B001HCX9N0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1362388002&sr=8-1
http://www.khaledhosseini.com/splash.html

Passed:
0304
Robert Southwell (1561-95) Eng Elizabethan Priest/ Martyr /poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/southwell-sj-robert

Nikolai Gogol, March 31, 1809-, 52 Russian writer novelist, dramatist, & satirist,
http://www.thebhopalpost.com/index.php/2010/07/gogol-magic-realism/

Hamlin Garland, Sept16, 1860- 1940 American novelist, poet, psychical researcher essayist, and short story writer.

Do You Fear the Wind?
Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,
Go wade like the crane.
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your cheek will tan,
You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy,
But you'll walk like a man!

http://people.uncw.edu/newlink/garland/

Mark Sandrich, (Oct 26,1900-1945) American film director, writer and producer Holiday Inn
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762263/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Antonin Artaud ((09/04/1896 – 1948) French writer poet/actor (Napoleon)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/antonin-artaud

William Carlos Williams (09/17/1883 –1963) US Dr. Poet / Novelist SPRING
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/williams-william-carlos
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-carlos-williams
http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Williams.html
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/1999/09/artist-william-carlos-williams.html
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/Williams.html

Howard Greenfield, 1936 -1986 American songwriter. . Working out of the famous Brill Building with Neil Sedaka he co-wrote many hits including 'Calendar Girl', 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do', and 'Crying In The Rain' with Carole King. Also wrote TV theme songs including the theme to 'Bewitched.'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338997/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Richard Manuel (April 3, 1943-1986,) Another Canadian The Band band-mate, Robbie Robertson honoured his friend with the song, 'Fallen Angel' in 1987
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-manuel-mn0000346074

John Candy (October 31, 1950 -1994) Canadian actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001006/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Minnie Pearl (10/25/1912 –1996) US comic
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0669080/

Sites:
http://www.unicef.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-ROWn3Op8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.seacoastnh.com/today/seacoast-history-blog/
http://www.whitebirchbooks.com/index.html
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/370-wikileaks/16288-focus-true-cost-of-the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan
http://www.pen-international.org/

History:
0304
1675 John Bunyan went to prison for the third time, convicted of preaching his Baptist faith without a license
http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1863, President Lincoln signed an act creating Idaho Territory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

1887, William Randolph Hearst bought the San Francisco Examiner, By 1937, fifty years after he first purchased the Examiner, Hearst owned 28 major newspapers and 18 magazines, along with several radio stations, movie companies, and news services
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/willh.html
http://www.bartleby.com/227/1316.html

1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/frances-perkins

1952 Ernest Hemingway wrote his publisher saying he'd just finished— The Old Man and the Sea
http://www.classic-enotes.com/american-literature/american-novel/ernest-hemingway/the-old-man-and-the-sea/full-text-of-the-old-man-and-the-sea-by-ernest-hemingway/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldman/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1759143.stm

1966 John Lennon says ,as published in The London Evening Standard. "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary."
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search_result

Bonus Poem:

Magician
To the conjurer of rabbits out of black hats, the escapist
down to his final act of vanishing beneath 50 lbs of chains
you are born. To his legacy of tricks and Houdini-style
metamorphosis just waiting to spin out

into the San Francisco morning, where delivery trucks
back up to doors, caution lights sending yellow
like a heartbeat against the night.

He puts his hand over your mouth to keep the escapist
in there. You could be a fire eater. You come direct
from the illusionist to catapult from the black raft
of his blessing. The infant devotion: eyes newly open

believe the world: murky, against the white walls
ambient motions. You’ll play a charmed rodent and disappear
beneath his black cape. Another feat of possession.

Another vat of bottled smoke. He loosens the knots,
saws the box open, rips the red scarf from his sleeve.
The silk becomes a dove becomes a rabbit
and the cages hide in the floor.
-Amber Flora Thomas –
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/index.php

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