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Strafford Notes, March 12, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:21:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Your poetry fix fopr a rainy Tuesday afternoon

March 12
Events:
March 12th Portland Port VERITAS Open Mic featuring Poet, activist, and essayist RACHEL MCKIBBENS At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeneys Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street Portland, ME 04101 All Ages $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30 FMI please visit our site www.portveritas.com
Born:
0312
John Aubrey (1626-June 7,1697), English biographer and antiquary
http://www.britannia.com/wonder/aubry.html
Simon Newcomb (1835 – July 11, 1909) Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician.
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/newcomb_simon
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19309/pg19309.html

Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-March 1,1938) Italian poet, novelist and dramatist, military hero
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/dannun.htm
http://www.gabrieledannunzio.net/english/index.htm

Irving Layton (1912 – 01/04/2006) Romanian-Canadian writer Misunderstanding
http://irvinglayton.ca/

Lane Kirkland (1922 – 08/14/1999) US union leader
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Lane-Kirkland-1922-1999

[Jean-LouisLebris de] Jack Kerouac, (1922 - 21 October 1969) American beat writer
http://www.poemhunter.com/jack-kerouac/poems/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-kerouac-mn0000120487

Edward Albee (1928- ) U S playwright Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, A Delicate Balance,
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4350/the-art-of-theater-no-4-edward-albee

Virginia Hamilton (1936-Feb .19,2002), African American children's author and novelist; Newbery Medal and the National Book Award
http://www.amazon.com/Virginia-Hamilton/e/B000AP85W0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363008055&sr=8-1
http://www.virginiahamilton.com/

Liza Minnelli (1946 – ) US entertainer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591485/?ref_=sr_1

James Taylor (1948 – ) US singer, songwriter
http://www.jamestaylor.com/

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952- ). American poet and fiction author
http://www.amazon.com/Naomi-Shihab-Nye/e/B000APE8JO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1363008116&sr=8-2
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/naomi-shihab-nye
The Rider
A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,
the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.
http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/category/naomi-shihab-nye/

Dave Eggers, (1970- ). US writer, editor, and publisher; creative memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000); What Is the What (2006); screenplays for Away We Go and Where the Wild Things Are (2009).
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/about-dave-eggers
http://www.amazon.com/Dave-Eggers/e/B001H6UAH4/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363008182&sr=8-1

Passed:
0312
Gabriel TéllezTirso de Molina (October, 1571? -, 1648) Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet & Roman Catholic monk.
http://ffh.films.com/id/11314/Tirso_de_Molina_El_Burlador_de_Sevilla.htm

John Peter Altgeld (30th December, 1847 -1902) German/US Governor of Illinois
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAaltgeld.htm
The Eagle That is Forgotten By Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931
The Eagle That Is ForgottenThe Eagle That Is Forgotten(John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinois and my next-door neighbor, 1893-1897.
http://www.bartleby.com/267/89.html
Born December 30, 1847; died March 12, 1902.)
Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone.
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own.

“We have buried him now,” thought your foes, and in secret rejoiced.
They made a brave show of their mourning, their hatred unvoiced.
They had snarled at you, barked at you, foamed at you day after day,
Now you were ended. They praised you . . . and laid you away.

The others that mourned you in silence and terror and truth,
The widow bereft of her crust, and the boy without youth,
The mocked and the scorned and the wounded, the lame and the poor,
That should have remembered forever . . . remember no more.

Where are those lovers of yours, on what name do they call,
The lost, that in armies wept over your funeral pall?
They call on the names of a hundred high-valiant ones,
A hundred white eagles have risen the sons of your sons,
The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began
The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man.

Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone,
Time has its way with you there and the clay has its own.
Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame—
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,
To live in mankind, far, far more . . . than to live in a name.
Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 - 1947) American novelist.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/winston-churchill/
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5400/pg5400.html

Charlie Parker (08/29/1920 –1955) US jazz great
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-parker-mn0000211758
241st Chorus
And how sweet a story it is
When you hear Charley Parker
tell it,
Either on records or at sessions,
Or at offical bits in clubs,
Shots in the arm for the wallet,
Gleefully he Whistled the
perfect
horn
Anyhow, made no difference.

Charley Parker, forgive me-
Forgive me for not answering your eyes-
For not having made in indication
Of that which you can devise-
Charley Parker, pray for me-
Pray for me and everybody
In the Nirvanas of your brain
Where you hide, indulgent and huge,
No longer Charley Parker
But the secret unsayable name
That carries with it merit
Not to be measured from here
To up, down, east, or west-
-Charley Parker, lay the bane,
off me, and every body
-Jack Kerouac

John Cazale (Aug 12, 1935 -1978) US actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001030/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Morton Downey, Jr. (12/09/1933 –2001) US talk show host, actor, composer (wrote Wipe Out and Pipeline!)
http://www.mortondowneyjrhome.com/

Robert Ludlum, 1927 -2001 US Novelist-thrillersThe Bourne Identity (1980
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ludlum.htm

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 –2003) American novelist and television writer
http://www.trussel.com/f_how.htm

Sites:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149
http://www.counterpunch.org/
https://www.ezpassnh.com/en/home/index.shtml
http://holyjoe.org/index.htm
http://www.popoffvalve.com/haiku-tuesday
http://mallettbrothersband.com/

History:
0312

(1864) The Round Table publishes Emily Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"
http://www.bartleby.com/113/2057.html

1901 steel magnate Andrew Carnegie gave N Y City $5.2 million to construct 65 branch libraries
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

1912, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of America in Savannah, Georgia.
http://www.girlscouts.org/
http://www.vintagegirlscout.com/
1969 John Cheever’s Bullet Park, published
http://bookchase.blogspot.com/2009/03/bullet-park.html
1994 the Church of England ordained its first women priests—32 of them, in a ceremony at Bristol Cathedral

Bonus Poem:
‘The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain’
There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.
He breathed its oxygen,
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.
It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,
How he had recomposed the pines,
Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds,
For the outlook would be right,
Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion:
The exact rock where his inexactnesses
Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,
Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea,
Recognize his unique and solitary home.
by Wallace Stevens
101 Sonnets is published by Faber and Faber. http://thecoldtapsings.com/tag/sonnet/

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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