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Strafford Notes 13 March, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:25:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

If you're in the Exeter NH area this evening, the Water Street Bookstore is the place to be......

March 13
Events:
March 13 Exeter - 6:30 p.m. - Water Street Bookstore, downtown Exeter - Poetry Reading with featured readers Julie Dickson and Rosemary Staples, followed by open mic. Contact John Ferguson, 778 9731.

Born:
March 13
Joseph Priestly (1733 – 02/06/1804) English chemist , clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRpriestley.htm

James W. Alexander, 1804 -July 31, 1859 American Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0CE3D91F31EE34BC4D53DFBE668382649FDE

Harriet Jacobs 1813-97. African-American abolitionist and author.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html

Percival "Percy" Lowell 1855 - 1916 US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/04/27/the_man_who_invented_mars/?page=full

Charles E. Cowman, 1868-Sept 25,1924 American missionary pioneer..
http://lifelineprinting.com/cowman_lettie_charles_e_cowman_missionary_warrior.htm

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-Oct.1,1949) American journalist- NY Post; activist NAACP /anti-war pacifist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAvillard.htm

(William) 'Wee Willie' Keeler, (1872-) star outfielder —among the smallest men ever to play major league baseball. "Keep your eye on the ball and hit 'em where they ain't."
http://baseballhall.org/hof/keeler-willie

Sir Hugh Walpole (1884 – 06/01/1941) New Zealand/ English novelist, critic, and dramatist
http://www.visitcumbria.com/hugh-walpole/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Walpole%2C%20Hugh%2C%20Sir%2C%201884-1941

Janet Flanner aka Genet (1892 – 11/07/1978) US journalist, Paris columnist for the New Yorker
http://www.amazon.com/Janet-Flanner/e/B001IXS4IS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_9?qid=1363087584&sr=8-9
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0011.html

Jan Lechoń, (1899 - 1956) Polish poet
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strangers+in+New+York%3A+Jan+Lechon's+encounters+with+William+Faulkner.-a0190284863

L. Ron Hubbard (1911 – 01/24/1986) US sci-fi writer & Church of Scientology founder
http://www.amazon.com/L.-Ron-Hubbard/e/B000AP9H6S/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363087687&sr=8-1

Bill S. Ballinger 1912-March 23,1980) American thriller writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ballinge.htm

Sergey Mikhalkov, 1913 –Aug.27,2009 Russian writer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/aug/30/sergei-mikhalkov-obituary

Al Jaffee, 1921 - comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
http://www.madmagazine.com/tags/al-jaffee
Mike Stoller, (Leiber &),1933 -, songwriter, and producer for Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, The Monkees, Cliff Richard.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-stoller-mn0000487288

George Kofi Awoonor Williams 1935- Gold Coast poet Rediscovery(1964)
http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/?p=901
Neil Sedaka, 1939-, singer, songwriter, (1959 UK No.3 single 'Oh Carol' plus over 30 US & 14 UK other Top 40 singles, 1962 US No.1 & UK No.7 single 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/neil-sedaka-mn0000330575

Mahmoud Darwish ( 1941- Aug.9,2008) Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/darwish.htm

Adam Clayton (1960 – ) Irish bassist (U2) (1984 'Pride, In The Name Of Love' 1987 No.1 album 'The Joshua Tree'
http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Adam-Clayton-reveals-how-U2-saved-him-from-clutches-of-depression-192514341.html

Yuri Andrukhovych, 1960 - Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist

LIBRARY
we search for the most esoteric knowledge
climb ladders to reach highest sections in the stacks
rummage through the shelves with spiders
raising clouds of dust
that hover near the ceiling
we hold our breath and
barely keep our balance
like aerial gymnasts
as we dive into the thickest tomes
without the slightest hope of ever emerging
books swallow us up like the sea
we grab onto carved overhangs
and somehow manage to stay afloat
then when we lose our strength
breathless and covered with plaster
we seem to find
in the thicket of leather bindings and hard-covers
pressed against the wall
the small warm
nest
of a simple swallow

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/5528

Alastair Preston Reynolds (1966) British science fiction author.
http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Alastair_Reynolds.html

Passed:
March 13
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (11/01/1636 –1711) French writer/poet
http://www.bartleby.com/100/742.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02623a.htm
http://www.poemhunter.com/nicholas-boileau-despreaux/
Benjamin Harrison (08/20/1833 – 03/13/1901) US President (23)
http://www.presidentsusa.net/bharrison.html
Susan B. Anthony (02/15/1820 – 03/13/1906) US suffragist
http://www.susanbanthony.net/
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 –1930) American author. (Pembroke)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293512/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Freeman%2C%20Mary%20Eleanor%20Wilkins%2C%201852-1930
Clarence Darrow (04/18/1857 –1938) US lawyer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdarrow.htm
Stephen Vincent Benet (07/22/1898 –1943) American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories,
Love in Twilight
There is darkness behind the light — and the pale light drips
Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen loom
Like the carven prows of proud, far-triumphing ships —
And the firelight wavers and changes about the room,

As the three logs crackle and burn with a small still sound;
Half-blotting with dark the deeper dark of her hair,
Where she lies, head pillowed on arm, and one hand curved round
To shield the white face and neck from the faint thin glare.

Gently she breathes — and the long limbs lie at ease,
And the rise and fall of the young, slim, virginal breast
Is as certain-sweet as the march of slow wind through trees,
Or the great soft passage of clouds in a sky at rest.

I kneel, and our arms enlace, and we kiss long, long.
I am drowned in her as in sleep. There is no more pain.
Only the rustle of flames like a broken song
That rings half-heard through the dusty halls of the brain.

One shaking and fragile moment of ecstasy,
While the grey gloom flutters and beats like an owl above.
And I would not move or speak for the sea or the sky
Or the flame-bright wings of the miraculous Dove!

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/312/312-h/312-h.htm#link2H_4_0031

Ivo Andric (10/09/1892 –1975) Bosnian -Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961)
http://www.amazon.com/Ivo-Andric/e/B000AQ6ULW
Judge Dread (Alex Hughes) May 2, 1945 -1998, English reggae and ska artist ;the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica. Dread has the most banned songs at radio of all time.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/judge-dread-mn0000246565
Garson Kanin (11/24/1912 –1999) US writer, director, actor
http://www.garsonkanin.com/
Maureen Stapleton (06/21/1925 –2006) US actor - Oscar for Reds
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822972/

Sites:
http://www.visitportland.com/
http://www.christianitytoday.com/
http://www.upworthy.com/
http://www.childrens-museum.org/cmnh2010/
http://www.jenniferreeser.com/
http://www.sierraclub.org/
http://www.sebringraceway.com/

History:
0313

Jonathan Swift's "Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719" and "Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727"
‘Stella’ was Esther Johnson (March 18, 1681 – January 28, 1728); they are buried together…
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/swift-jonathan

1789, The inscription someone carefully wrote ""Enoch Brooks' Book, Princeton, March 13th, 1789" in permanent ink. Inside the Library of Congress' copy of a rare children's Bible A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, printed in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in nearby Worcester, Massachusetts.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar13.html

1891, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts premiered in London
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Henrik-Ibsen/e/B000AQ4LFE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6?qid=1363165945&sr=8-6

1965, Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds
http://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/timelines/the_yardbirds_timeline/

Bonus Poem:

AND HAVE YOU ALSO WISHED

And have you also wished to leave the world
of unforgiving surface and hard time,
to enter mist and climb an autumn slope,
becoming all but invisible below
a gray and dripping baldachin of boughs
that lead to the little clearing in the woods
where much will be revealed, what love and dreams
had promised before you woke and had to leave?
And have you, even as you wished this all,
passionately wished it, nevertheless continued
in the old direction, stretching out
and out to dust, foregone and trampled flat,
because you were told to once or because—who knows—
you said you would, or something shallow as that?
-Leonard Nathan
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/11/two-poems-by-leonard-nathan/

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