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Strafford Notes 15 March, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013 10:06:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Let us praise Fridays!!!

March 15
New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud 2012-2013 Finals:
March 15 The State House ,Concord,Representatives Hall NH Poetry Out Loud Finals 7PM***
Events Coming soon:
March 16 Dunbarton, NH The Spireside Coffee House at the Dunbarton Congregational Church will feature Decatur Creek Doors open by 7:00 PM to sign up for the Open Mic which starts at 7:30. We welcome Poets, Storytellers and all styles of music!
Come and enjoy the show as we serve delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. Visit www.dccucc.org or email Lizz.dccucc.org for more information.
March 18, Cambridge, MA: The Blacksmith House Poetry Series will feature Hafizah Geter, Ron Spalleta, and Tara Skurtu in New Voices: Emerging Writers. 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 18 Rye,(third Monday)– 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Rye– Open mike fiction and poetry(John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).
March 19 Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 –Feature & OpenMic Enjoy a full kitchen and bar Contact: Beau Williams 317design.gmail.com http://facebook.com/boetwilliams
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3023783721473&set=a.1581903595371.2081676.1469144497&type=1#!/StoneChurchRocks?sk=wall
March 20 Concord, - 7-9pm – Gibson’s Books, Concord - Features Walter Butts and S Stephanie followed by open mike (Don Kimball, 224-0562, prisdon.comcast.net).
March 21 Effingham Town Library, Effingham - Writers' Night – 7-9pm – - Rebecca Rule / Tom Diegoli Feature followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us , 539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com ) http://www.redgallagher.com/index.html
March 21 Portsmouth – Beat Night - 7-9pm – Press Room, – Featured Readers: Accompanied by The Larry Simon Ensemble- Larry Simon-Guitar, Scip Gallant-Keys, Cynthia Chatis-Flute Mike Barron & Frank Laurino-percussion, Chris Stambaugh-Bass(followed by the open mic with Tammi Truax) (431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom )
March 21 Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , www.facebook.com/slamfreeordie

Born:
0315

Andrew Jackson (1767 – 06/08/1845) US President (7)
http://www.thehermitage.com/
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (1830-April 2, 1914), German novelist, dramatist, poet, and 1910 Nobelist L'Arrabbiata
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/heyse-autobio.html
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory Persse, (1852-May22,1932), Irish playwright,
translator, and poet ,co-founder and co-director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre
http://www.enotes.com/rising-moon-salem/rising-moon-9820000224
http://gort.galway-ireland.ie/lady-gregory.htm
Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867-Oct.4, 1902) English Roman Catholic poet and critic
From The Dark Angel

When sunlight glows upon the flowers,
Or ripples down the dancing sea:
Thou, with thy troop of passionate powers,
Beleaguerest, bewilderest, me.
Within the breath of autumn woods,
Within the winter silences:
Thy venomous spirit stirs and broods,
O Master of impieties!
The ardour of red flame is thine,
And thine the steely soul of ice:
Thou poisonest the fair design
Of nature, with unfair device.
Apples of ashes, golden bright;
Waters of bitterness, how sweet!
O banquet of a foul delight,
Prepared by thee, dark Paraclete!
Thou art the whisper in the gloom,
The hinting tone, the haunting laugh:
Thou art the adorner of my tomb,
The minstrel of mine epitaph.
http://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/librarium/lionel_johnson.htm
Wallace Irwin (1875 – 02/14/1959) US writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410467/
Lawrence Sanders, 1920 –Feb 7,1998 American novelist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761628/
Carl Smith (1927-2010 Jan16) , Country Musician Honkytonker
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/carl-smith-mn0000163198
James Mitchell, 1931-Dec 18th 2000., tenor saxophone, The Memphis Horns. Worked with Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Sam And Dave, Elvis Presley, The Doobie Brothers, Otis Redding.
http://staxrecords.free.fr/markeys.htm
Ben Okri (1959- ) Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and poet The Famished Road (1991), Dangerous Love (1996), Starbook (2007) Tales of Freedom (2009).

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htm
Passed:
0315

H. P. [Howard Phillips] Lovecraft, Aug.20,1890-1937 American poet and author of macabre short novels
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lovecraf.htm

Dame Rebecca West (12/21/1892 –1983) English journalist, novelist, and critic
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rwest.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922306/
Al Sheikh Muhammad Jameel Didi, (May 1, 1915 - 1989) Maldivian poet
Maldivians National Anthem - 1972,
We salute you in this national unity.
We salute you, with many good wishes in the national tongue,

Bowing the head in respect to the national symbol.
We salute the flag that has such might ;

It falls into the sphere of victory, fortune and success
With its green and red and white together, and therefore we salute it.

To those heroes who sought out honour and pride for the nation
We give salute today in auspicious verses of remembrance.

May the nation of the Maldivians advance under guard and protection
And the name of the Maldivias become great.

We wish for their freedom and progress in this world
And for their freedom from sorrows, and thus we salute.

With full respect and heartfelt blessing towards religion and our leaders,
We salute you in uprightness and truth.

May the State ever have auspicious honour and respect.
With good wishes for your continuing might, we salute you.

http://www.nationalanthems.me/maldives-gaumii-salaam/

Dr. Benjamin Spock (05/02/1903 –1998) US doctor, baby specialist , activist
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_spock.html
Sites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnokNJzXdCI
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42201/42201-h/42201-h.htm
http://www.americanprecision.org/
http://pubcan.widgetstudios.com/Pre-Orders.html
http://www.camilledungy.com/
History:
0315
1820, Maine became the twenty-third state in the Union
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar15.html

1930 The Saturday Review publishes Hart Crane's "Cape Hatteras"
http://modernpoetry.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/cape-hatteras-hart-crane/
1956 My Fair Lady opened for a record-setting six-and-a-half year run on Broadway— music by Frederick Lowe, words by Alan Jay Lerner, direction by Moss Hart, story taken from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starring
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/my_fair_lady_soundtrack
Bonus Poem:
From THE TRAFFIC OF TULIPS
—for Nelson
When the snow finally melts
under his empty window
tulips sprout without regard.
They bloom in the late April rain,
slender yet looming
fire, fire reds,
only a handful
are school bus yellow.
If they were traffic
they would clatter incessantly
across the potholes,
in the Spring winds
if they were buildings
they would seem to sway.
S Stephanie, LPN
–from Rattle #28, Winter 2007
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/tag/s-stephanie/
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