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Strafford Notes, March 8, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013 12:09:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

The snow did come, and go

March 8
Events:
March 8 New England College Simon Center NH Poetry Out Loud SemiFinal 7PM
March 8{-9} 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/

Born:
0308
Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki (1761 – Dec 1815) Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author
http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/blog/polish-gothic/
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 – 03/06/1935) US Supreme Court Justice
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm
João de Deus, (1830 – Jan 11,1896) Portuguese poet
http://casamuseujoaodedeus-joao.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetic-soul-of-portuguese.html
Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 07/06/1932) Scottish essayist and children's story writer
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/poetrycompetition/article3228896.ece
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Grahame%2C%20Kenneth%2C%201859-1932
Otto Hahn, (1879-July 28,1968 ). German chemist In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fission of heavy nuclei.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1944/
(Eu)Gene Fowler,(1890- July 2, 1960 ). US author, journalist and screenwriter Call of the Wild (1935), White Fang (1936), and Billy the Kid (1941). He also wrote biographies Good Night, Sweet Prince (1944)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1542
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-Sweet-Prince-Fowler/dp/B0027N8EGU/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362738146&sr=1-10
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288706/
Juana Fernández Morales Vd. De Ibarbourou, / Juana de América, (1892–1979) Uruguayan poet of Galician origin.
Running Water

This water that comes
through the dark nerves of piping,
to give its pure freshness to my house
and the gift of cleanliness every day.

This bubbling water
that the faucet bestows,
this swelling of deep mystery
from the river bed, the wind and grass.

I view with envious impatience
this traveling wave that is my sister,
that has come to the big city
from some distant unknown meadow.

And halted before this open faucet
sprinkling my apron with beads,
I feel upon me the loving look
of a thousand clear eyes of water.

- Translated by Carlos Reyes
http://www.poetserv.org/SRR22/ibarbourou.html
http://ibarbourou.blogspot.com/2003_03_23_archive.html!
Eric Robert Linklater (1899- Nov 7 .1974) Scottish novelist, poet and history writer
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/linklater.htm
http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Eric_Linklater
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/linklate.htm
Howard Aiken (1900 – 03/14/1973) US mathematician, engineer
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/aiken.html
Rolf Jacobsen (1907— February 20 ,1994) Norway modernist writer [poet,novelist]
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jaco.htm
John Angus McPhee (1931- ) American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer -a literary journalist A Sense of Where You Are (1965).
http://www.amazon.com/John-McPhee/e/B000AQ4582/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1362737344&sr=8-1
Richard Farina, 1937 –April 30,1966 American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-fari%C3%B1a-mn0000351895
http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Farina/e/B000AQ1QZW
Mickey Dolenz (1945 – ) US singer, drummer, actor (Monkees), television director, radio personality and theatre director 1967 'I'm A Believer'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004880/
http://www.hooloovoo.com/dolenz/
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer (19xx-) US Poet

http://www.amazon.com/Jayne-Jaudon-Ferrer/e/B000AQ0COS
http://www.jaynejaudonferrer.com/
Carole Bayer Sager, 1946- singer, songwriter. Wrote 'Groovy Kind Of Love', hit for The Mindbenders and Phil Collins. Sinatra, Pitney and Dolly Parton have all recorded her songs. Married Burt Bacharach in 1982.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/carole-bayer-sager-mn0000796700
Randy Meisner, 1946- ,US guitarist with US group Poco who later joined The Eagles 1977 'Hotel California'.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/randy-meisner-mn0000394931
Kathy Ireland (1963 – ) US supermodel, actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001387/
Shawn Mullins, 1968- US singer, songwriter -Lullaby
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/shawn-mullins-mn0000013583

Passed:
0308
Hector Berlioz (12/11/1803 –1869) French composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hector-berlioz-mn0001436021
Millard Fillmore (01/07/1800 –1874) US President (13)
http://www.potus.com/mfillmore.html
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (30 September 1816 - 1887) French novelist and dramatist.
http://combosaurus.com/interest/paul-feval-p-ere
http://librivox.org/la-vampire-by-feval-paul-henry-corentin/
Henry Ward Beecher (06/24/1813 –1887) US minister ,writer ,editor
http://www.egs.edu/library/henry-ward-beecher/biography/
Charles Follen Adams
(Apr 21-1842
-1918)
US dialect Poet
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365348
Misplaced Sympathy

Little Benny sat one evening,
Looking o'er his picture-book:
Suddenly his mother noticed
On his face a troubled look.
He was gazing on a picture, —
"Christians in the early days,"
When the cruel tyrant Nero
Harassed them in various ways.
'Twas a family of Christians,
Torn by lions fierce and wild,
In the horrible arena,
Which had thus distressed the child.
Thinking it a golden moment
To impress his youthful mind
With our freedom, dearly purchased,
And by martyrs' blood refined,
His good mother told the story
Of their persecutions sore,
While he listened, all attention,
And the picture pondered o'er.
"See, my child, those hungry lions,
How upon the group they fall!
'Tis a sight, my precious darling,
That the bravest might appall."
Then, with little lip a-quiver,
"Mamma, look!" says little Benny:
"Little lion in the corner,
Mamma, isn't gettin' any!"
http://www.citatepedia.com/quote.php?id=37165
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (June 27, 1883-1929) Eng Anglican Priest, WWI poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/studdert-kennedy-geoffrey-anketell
William Howard Taft (09/15/1857 –1930) US President (27)
http://www.potus.com/whtaft.html
Sherwood Anderson (09/13/1876 –1941) US writer
http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/shanders.htm
Sir Thomas Beecham (04/29/1897 –1961) British composer, conductor
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Beecham-Thomas.htm
Wallace West ((1900-05-22)May 22, 1900- 1980(1980-03-08))American science fiction writer.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29410/29410-h/29410-h.htm
John Anthony Bellairs (Jan 17, 1938 –1991) American author, fantasy novel The Face in the Frost & many juvinile gothic mystery novels
http://www.bellairsia.com/
http://www.shelfari.com/authors/a7697/John-Bellairs/
Joe DiMaggio (11/25/1914 –1999) US baseball player
http://www.joedimaggio.com/
Alice Thomas Ellis (09/09/1932 –2005) Welsh writer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/mar/10/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

Sites:
http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/
http://cleanenergycanada.org/
http://www.speedwaymotorsports.com/
http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/
http://www.nytimes.com/

History:
0308
1884 Susan B. Anthony addressed the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives
, arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar08.html

1935 Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River, published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Wolfe/e/B000AP62F2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1362658207&sr=8-1

1939 W. H. Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" was published in The New Republic
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15544
1977, International Women's Day, designated by the United Nations
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Bonus Poem:
Love and Friendship
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?
The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.

by Emily Brontë
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/poetrycompetition/article3229022.ece

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