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Strafford Notes 22 March, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013 8:54:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

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Poetry 4 U

Steven Manning
6:24 AM (6 hours ago)

to Steven
March 22
Events:
March 22 (Friday)Machester The NorthBEAST Regional Slam -for one night only: Up to eight teams will compete in this official Poetry Slam, Inc. "Win and You're In" match to see who will be guaranteed a spot at the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Boston.
* Providence Poetry Slam
* Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam
* Worcester Poets' Asylum
* Portland Poetry Slam
* Rhythmic Cypher
* Mill City Poetry Slam
* Jersey City Poetry SlamMilly's Tavern 500 Commercial Street, Manchester, Hosts: Mark Palos & Mckendy Fils-Amie

March 22 Goffstown open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in the village area of Goffstown. http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/ http://www.apothecaonline.com/
Born:
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Anthony Van Dyck, 1599 – Dec. 9 , 1641 Flemish painter Eng court painter to King Charles 1
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/dyck/
Adam Sedgwick (1785 – 27 Jan 1873) Eng scientist - one of the founders of modern geology.
http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/

Louis Dearborn LaMoore L'Amour (1908 – 06/10/1988)- US “western” Novelist
How the West Was Won (1963) and The Quick and the Dead (1973).
http://www.todayinliterature.com/
Nicholas Monsarrat 1910- Aug. 7, 1979 English Historical novelist -The Cruel Sea (1951)
H.M. Corvette (1942).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/monsarra.htm

Edith Grossman (1936- ).US translator. In the mid-1980s, she set out to translate Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera. She used Faulkner's style as a guide for her translation. She said: " Any time I could, I chose a longer word rather than a shorter word, as if Hemingway had never lived."
http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Grossman/e/B000AQ3IP8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1363870596&sr=8-2

Billy Collins, 1941 - American poet The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988),. The Art of Drowning (1995), Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001), Horoscopes for the Dead (2011).
http://www.billy-collins.com/

http://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/poetsonline/archive/archparadelle.html

"The Quaintness of the Past"
I turn the page of a magazine
and find a black-and-white photograph
of a roadhouse taken in the 1950s,
an old clapboard affair
with a car of that vintage,
maybe a Plymouth, parked in front.
It is almost enough to inspire me
to take a snapshot of something around here
first thing in the morning,
maybe the little bakery down the street
where I often go for coffee and a muffin
and the big city paper
and the French girls behind the counter.
Ideally there would be a few modern cars
parked in front,
then all I would have to do
is walk back home and wait 50 or 100 years
for the photograph to become a thing of interest and value.
Of course, I will be long gone by then
and time will have marched on,
though I never think of time as marching
down a football field blowing a trumpet
or into a city square
with a rifle on its shoulder.
I picture time advancing more slowly
up a mountain, leaving
all the moments of history behind
like climbers who have to leave behind
one of their companions on a cold glacial slope.
And sometimes, decades later,
the body is discovered,
the ice is chipped away, and we get to see
a photograph of the remains—
the bones of the hands arthritically
fisted up, the jaw locked tight,
a skull wearing a woolen cap,
the man quaintly smiling out at us from the past
before we wet a finger and turn the page.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/06/the_quaintness_of_the_past.html

James Patterson, (1947- ). U.S. novelist He has published more than 70 novels, and according to recent data, he outsells Stephen King, Dan Brown, and John Grisham combined.
http://www.amazon.com/James-Patterson/e/B000APZGGS/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1363870670&sr=8-2-ent
Passed:
0322
Thomas Carew (1594/5 – 1639/1640) English writer Disdain Returned (The Rapture),
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/carew/
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 08/28/1749 –1832) German philosopher
http://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/poetsonline/archive/archparadelle.html

Wayfarer's Evening Song

Over every hilltop
comes repose.
From every treetop
there blows
barely a breath toward you.
Birds in the woodland cease their song.
Wait, now. Before long
You will rest, too.

Translated by A.Z. Foreman
http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/search/label/Goethe
Baird Searles (4/30/1934-1993 )US science fiction author and critic
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/searles_baird

Sites:
http://www.32poems.com/
http://stephanie-piro.blogspot.com/
http://www.pw.org/writing_contests/frost_farm_prize
http://www.nhwritersproject.org/
http://50.87.50.94/
History:
0322
1961, industrial designer Raymond Loewy made a dozen sketches of a futuristic sports car at the request of Sherwood Egbert, the recently appointed president of the ailing Studebaker Corporation- The "Avanti" Automobile
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar22.html

Bonus Poem:
The Truth

Since I have seen a bird one day,
His head pecked more than half away;
That hopped about, with but one eye,
Ready to fight again, and die —
Ofttimes since then their private lives
Have spoilt that joy their music gives.

So when I see this robin now,
Like a red apple on the bough,
And question why he sings so strong,
For love, or for the love of song;
Or sings, maybe, for that sweet rill
Whose silver tongue is never still —

Ah, now there comes this thought unkind,
Born of the knowledge in my mind:
He sings in triumph that last night
He killed his father in a fight;
And now he'll take his mother's blood —
The last strong rival for his food.

William H. Davies

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9640/9640-h/9640-h.htm#spose

…and on the lighter side:
Haiku 23-

In the recliner,
Ignoring leash and my pleas,
Dog, doggedly curls;

Not falling for my:
“Do you want to go outside?”
And “Get down! My chair! ”;

Resigned to “No dog
On this trip to Rochester”,
I envy the dog.
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