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Strafford Notes 18 March, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013 5:54:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

The calm before the storm....

March 18
Events:
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).
And ,The rest of This week :
March 19, Portland Port Veritas . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street ––All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic 7:30 Feature -. . 8:30) . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street Portland Enjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543 www.portveritas.com
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

Music,soon-
March29PortsmouthThe Press Room
March30PortsmouthThe Press Room
Martin England & the Reconstructed Live
Friday, March 29 at 8:30pm - Saturday, March 30 at 12:30am at The Press Room
http://www.reverbnation.com/martinengland
http://pressroomnh.com/enhancedCalendar.cfm

Born:
0318
John Caldwell Calhoun 1782- March 31, 1850. US congressman, senator, secretary of war, secretary of state, and Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1829-37)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar18.html

[Stephen] Grover Cleveland (1837 – 06/24/1908) US President (22nd & 24th President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/gcleveland.html
William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840 – 07/02/1901) English writer/poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/william-cosmo-monkhouse/poems/

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-Sept.9,1898) French leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry
A Throw of the Dice
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mallarme.htm

Edgar Cayce (1877 – 01/03/1945) US psychic
http://www.caycelibrary.com/
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1874/whats-the-scoop-on-edgar-cayce-the-sleeping-prophet
Robert P Tristram Coffin 1892 – Jan 20, 1955) writer, poet and professor at Wells College (1921–1934) and Bowdoin College (1934–1955). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936. Strange Holiness
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/rptcg.shtml
http://mainehumanities.org/podcast/archives/607
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/39/4#!/20578380/0
http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1815&context=cq

Wilfred Owen (1893 – 11/04/1918) English WWI soldier, writer –Poet
http://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owen/e/B001HOL67E/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6?qid=1363540469&sr=8-6

Manly Hall (1901 – 08/29/1990) Canadian writer The Secret Teachings of All Ages
http://www.amazon.com/Manly-P.-Hall/e/B001JRWQVE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363540434&sr=8-1

George Plimpton (1901 – 09/26/2003) US actor / sports writer (Paper Lion)
http://www.amazon.com/George-Plimpton/e/B000APBJ7S/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363540372&sr=8-1
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1297/plimpton/

Richard Thomas Condon (1915April 9-96) American satirical novelist, playwright, and crime writerThe Manchurian Candidate (1959) and Prizzi's Honor (1982
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/condon.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174410/

John Updike (1932-01/27/2009) American novelist, short story writer and poet,
http://www.amazon.com/John-Updike/e/B000APTBGO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1363540348&sr=8-1
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=3/18/2013
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4219/the-art-of-fiction-no-43-john-updike

Mark Neary Donohue, Jr. (1937 – Au 19, 1975), US auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
http://www.sportscardigest.com/driver-profile-%E2%80%93-mark-donohue/

Michael S. Harper 1938- US Black poet Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, 1988-93. Nightmare Begins Responsibility
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/277
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-history/

MAKIN’ JUMP SHOTS

He waltzes into the lane ‘cross the free-throw line,
Fakes a drive pivots, floats from the asphalt turf in an arc of black light,
and sinks two in the chains.
One on one he fakes down the main, passes into the free lane and hits the chains.
A sniff in the fallen air-he stuffs it through the chains riding high:
“traveling” someone calls-and he laughs, stepping to a silent beat, gliding
as he sinks two in the chains....

http://www.aaregistry.org/poetry/h
Bill Frisell 1951 US Jazz musician/Guitarist
http://www.billfrisell.com/
Irene Cara 1959 - , actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)1983 single 'Flashdance...What A Feeling'). Cara played Coco Hernandez in Fame.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001011/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Mike Rowe 1962- TV Personality Dirty Jobs; Narrator for The Deadliest Catch and The Ultimate Fighter.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1192046/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Vanessa L Williams 1963 - US model ,1st black Miss America (1984)/singer (Colors of the Wind) 1992 single 'Save The Best To Last'). actress (Eraser)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001853/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] 1970 - US rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single (1990 with De La Soul, 'Mama Give Birth To The Soul Children' All Hail the Queen)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001451/?ref_=tt_cl_t1

Passed:
0318

Laurence Sterne (11/24/1713 –1768) Irish-English writer
http://www.shandean.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1079/1079-h/1079-h.htm
Louis Bromfield, (1896-1956 ) American popular novelist and essayist, agrarian reformer ; Pulitzer Prize for his novel EARLY AUTUMN (1926
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bromfiel.htm
Leigh Douglass Brackett (Dec7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) American author/science fiction; also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102824/
http://leighbrackett.blogspot.com/
Faith Baldwin (10/01/1893 –1978) US writer
http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Baldwin/e/B001HPLH5E
Erich Fromm (03/23/1900 –1980) German psychoanalyst
http://www.ifefromm.it/
Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 –1986) American author of novels and short stories His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award[1] and the Pulitzer Prize.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538897/
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL232501A/Bernard_Malamud

Odysseas Elytis Nov 11,1911-1996 Greek poet Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979 Axion Esti
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4953701/Odysseas-ElytisA-Selection-of-Poems

"THIS WIND THAT LOITERS..."

This wind that loiters among the quinces
This insect that sucks the vines
This stone that the scorpion wears next to his skin
And these sheaves on the threshing floor
That play the giant to small barefoot children.

The images of the Resurrection
On walls that the pine trees scratched with their fingers
This whitewash that carries the noonday on its back
And the cicadas, the cicadas in the ears of the trees.

Great summer of chalk
Great summer of cork
The red sails slanting in gusts of wind
On the sea-floor white creatures, sponges
Accordions of the rocks
Perch from the fingers even of bad fishermen
Proud reefs on the fishing lines of the sun.

No one will tell our fate, and that is that,
We ourselves will tell the sun’s fate, and that is that.

© Translation: Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
From: Sun the first

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/2462/20/Odysseus-Elytis

John Phillips (08/30/1935 –2001) US singer, songwriter guitarist, of Mamas and The Papas, 'Monday, Monday'. His second solo album was released on Rolling Stones records and featured Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood.
http://www.papajohnphillips.com/

R.A. Lafferty, (Nov 7,1914- 2002 ) American science fiction writer
http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/RALafferty.php

Andrew Britton, ( 1981- 2008 ) British-born American novelist
http://andrewbrittonbooks.com/content/index.asp
Fess Parker, (Aug 16, 1924-2010 ) American actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662240/?ref_=sr_1

Sites:
http://pollyspancakeparlor.com/
http://pubcan.widgetstudios.com/
http://www.muzzlemagazine.com/taylor-mali-1.html
http://www.loa.org/
http://www.fs.usda.gov/whitemountain

Bonus Poem:

Veins of Salt
Wind and stone blend,
water and wind
in a flowing
underworld. Their currents converge
in deep pools. Echoes spin there
and reflect back. Voices
gather. Along the riverbed of time,
so pliable, and primitive,
they strew their minerals; liquid suns.
They leave their veins
of salt.
by Coral Bracho
http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/Coral_Bracho

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