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Strafford Notes 14 March, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:08:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Thanks to all of you who follow this. The poetry scene in NH is very active and it''s great to keep friends from all over current.

March 14
Events:
Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die –Sean Patrick Mulroy! features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )

Born:
0314

George Frederick Handel (1681 – 04/14/1759) German composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-frederick-handel-mn0000805740

Hannah Cowley (1743 – 03/11/1809) English dramatist and poet
http://www.theatredatabase.com/18th_century/hannah_cowley_001.html
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?recordid=33205
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=35091

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835- July 4, 1910) Discovered canals on Mars
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Schiaparelli.html
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-Jan 30,1881 ) British poet
http://theibtaurisblog.com/2011/12/14/arthur-oshaughnessy-the-original-mover-and-shaker/
http://www.bartleby.com/103/6.html
http://archive.org/stream/musicmoonlightpo00osharich/musicmoonlightpo00osharich_djvu.txt

Paul Ehrlich( 1854-aug 20 1915) Father of chemotherapy
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1908/ehrlich-bio.html

John Luther Casey Jones 1863- April 30, 1900 US Railroad hero
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10214

Algernon Henry Blackwood, (1869 – Dec 10, 1951) English short story writer and novelist
http://algernonblackwoodsociety.org/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Blackwood%2C%20Algernon%2C%201869-1951

Albert Einstein (03/14/1879 – 04/18/1955) German physicist
http://www.alberteinstein.info/

Waclaw Franciszek Sierpinski (1882-Oct 21, 1869 ) "the greatest and most productive of Polish mathematicians." Sierpinski's gasket
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Sierpinski.html

Sylvia Beach (1887- October 5, 1962 ) American –ex-pat, Parisian bookseller and publisher
http://www.amazon.com/Sylvia-Beach/e/B000APJC2W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1363246542&sr=8-2
Les Brown (1912 – 01/04/2001) US bandleader Les Brown and his Band of Renown
http://www.tuxjunction.net/lesbrown.htm

Horton Foote (1916- March 4,2009) American dramatist To Kill a Mockingbird
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285210/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Robert Henry Rimmer (1917 –August 1, 2001) US author The Harrad Experiment
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727297/

Hank Ketcham (1920 – 06/01/2001) US cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
http://www.dennisthemenace.com/tribute.html

Les Baxter,1922- 15th January 1996 (1956 US No.1 single 'Poor People Of Paris'.)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/les-baxter-mn0000249175

Diane Arbus (1923 – 07/28/1971) US photographer
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/arbus/arbus.html

John Barrington Wain (1925-May 24,1994) English poet, novelist, and critic
http://www.willwain.com/JohnWainpoetry.htm

Michael Caine (1933 – ) English actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/

Quincy Jones (03/14/1933 – ) US music producer
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/jon0bio-1

Wolfgang Petersen 1941- German Film director Das Boot and Troy
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000583/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Edward Tufte (1942 – ) US design and usability maven The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Pam Ayres (1947) English poet, songwriter
A WOODLAND BURIAL
Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.

http://www.pamayres.com/

Billy Crystal (1947 – ) US comic, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000345/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Theo Jansen 1948- Netherlands Sculptor Evolves walking beach sculptures
http://www.strandbeest.com/

Rigdon Osmond Rick Dees III 1950- Radio personality Disco Duck
http://www.rick.com/

Brian Maxwell 1953-March 19, 2004 Canadian American marathon runner/ Inventor of the PowerBar
http://runningmagazine.ca/2010/09/sections/feature/raising-the-power-bar-the-brian-maxwell-story/

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (1957 -) American writer- fantasy and science fiction novels
http://www.tadwilliams.com/

Kevin Williamson ( 1965- ) US screenwriter Scream
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932078/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Passed:
0314
Sir Thomas Malory ( c.1400-1471)Eng. Author Le Morte d'Arthur
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/malory.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ( July 2, 1724-1803) German poet, Messias
http://www.poemhunter.com/friedrich-gottlieb-klopstock/poems/
Karl Marx (05/05/1818 –1883) German philosopher
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html

Walter Camp ( April 7,1859-1925 ) Father of American football
http://www.waltercamp.org/history/

George Eastman (07/12/1854 –1932) US inventor of the Kodak camera
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/48.html

Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 –1951) American film producer and screenwriter, low-budget horror films produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
http://brightlightsfilm.com/50/lewton.php

Linda Jones, Dec14,1944-1972 Soul singer. Jones scored the 1967 US No.21 single 'Hypnotized'.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/linda-jones-mn0000834673

Howard Aiken (03/08/1900 –1973) US mathematician, engineer Designer of early computers
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/aiken_howard.html
Susan Hayward (06/30/1917 –1975) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001333/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Fannie Lou Hamer (10/06/1917 –1977) US activist Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer
http://www.beejae.com/hamer.htm
Genevieve Ginette Marguerite Auger (April 17, 1920-2004) French American Singer on Jack Paar Show
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312808/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Edward Abbey (01/29/1927 –1989)US writer Desert Solitaire
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/Entry/abbey_edward
http://www.abbeyweb.net/

YES -- even after my death
you shall not escape me
I'll follow you
in the eyes of every hawk,
every falcon, vulture, eagle
that soars in whatever sky
you walk beneath,
all the earth over,
everywhere.
Yes -- and when you die too,
and follow me into that deep
dark burning delicious blue
and become like me --
a kind of bird, a feathered thing --
why, then I'll seek you out
ten thousand feet above the sea;
and far beyond the world's rim
we'll meet and clasp and couple
close to the flaming sun
and scream the joy of our love
into the blaze of death
and burn like angels
down through the stars
past all the suns
to the world's beginning again.

from "Earth Apples: Collected Poems," by Edward Abbey
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/abbey/abbey.html
http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/earth_apples.html

Howard Ashman ( May 17, 1950- 1991 )US Songwriter Beauty and the Beast
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039141/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Doc Pomus Jan 27,1925-1991, American songwriter / With Mort Shuman he wrote many early 60's hits including, ‘A Teenager in Love’, ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’, ‘Sweets For My Sweet’, ‘Can't Get Used to Losing You’, ‘Little Sister’, ‘Suspicion’, ‘Surrender’ and ‘Viva Las Vegas’.

Sites:
http://www.2river.org/default.html
http://arcpoetry.ca/
-http://pear-energy.com/default.aspx
http://www.nhms.com/
http://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/poetry-matters-womens-work-toward-a-new-poetic-language/
http://mainewriters.org/black-fly-writing-retreat/
History:
0314
1802, William Wordsworth composes "To a Butterfly"
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/2600

1896, San Francisco celebrated the official opening of the Sutro Baths
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar14.html

1955, CBS talent scout Arthur Godfrey turned down the chance to sign Elvis Presley, instead at the same audition he signed singer Pat Boone.
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=arthurgodfre
Bonus Poem:
Morning

Day came in
on an old brown bus
with two friends.
She crept down
an empty street
bending over
to sweep the thin dawn away.
With her broom,
she drew red streaks
in the corners
of the dusty sky
and finding a rooster still asleep,
prodded him into song.
A fisherman,
not far from the shore,
lifted his eyes,
saw her coming,
and yawned.
The bus rolled by,
and the two friends caught
a glimpse of blue
as day swung around a corner
to where the sea met a road.
The sky blinked,
woke up,
and might have changed its mind,
but day had come.

By Dionne Brand

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