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Strafford Notes 24 March, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:22:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

A dose of poetry for a sunny Sunday

March 24
Events:
March 24 Falmouth Mass "Poems & Pints" an open mic reading of published poems or those written by local poets, on food, drink & cultural heritage, hosted by Alice Kociemba. Celebrate (with music, food and drink) at Liam's Irish Pub, 273 Main Street, , 3 to 5 PM. This event is in collaboration with "What's Falmouth Reading? 2013" (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, and Candy Freak by Steve Almond.) http://www.liammaguire.com/ http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/?/readers/whats-falmouth-reading-2013
March 24, Dublin, 2:30 p.m. Social/Sign-up, 3 p.m. Open Reading Feature poets: Christopher Locke, (Waiting For Grace and Other Poems) new book celebration; Kyle Potvin, (Sound Travels on Water) new book celebration Complimentary coffee, tea and light refreshments offered during social/reading ; donations Del Rossis’ Trattoria, Route 137N rodgerwriter.myfairpoint.net

This just in:
Portsmouth, Apr 28, 2013 Jazzmouth Lite, Sunday at The Press Room, which is being opened that morning especially for us. 11:30-02:00 pm, The Beat Night / Jazzmouth band is in place. We have 15, 5-minute slots for poets (sign up at the door), and the price for the buffet, prepared by the new Press Room kitchen staff, is $15+drinks+tips. Information is posted on JMA’s web page Www.johnmichaelalbert.com

Born:
0324
Fanny Frances Jane Crosby (1820-Feb.12, 1915) American writer of hymns
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4173
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/r/o/crosby_fj.htm
William Morris (1834 – 10/03/1896) English poet, artist, designer and Renaissance man
- he helped to form the Pre-Raphaelite movement, based on a love of all things gothic. His poems were often written in a medieval style. His turned his interest to crafts, and co-founded a design firm that produced wallpaper and stained glass and furniture—particularly the Morris chair, with its removable cushions and adjustable back
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/morris//
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jmorris.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/
http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/
John Wesley Powell, 1834- ) US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/canyon/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html
Andrew Mellon (1855 – 08/26/1937) US lawyer, judge, banker, Secretary of Treasury
http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/pages/awmellon.aspx
Olive Schreiner (1855 – 12/10/1920) South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/schreiner/index.html
Harry Houdini (1874 – 10/31/1926) US magician
http://www.houdinitribute.com/
Donald Hamilton (1916-Nov.20,2006) American western, mystery and espionage writer
http://www.jottings.ca/john/thriller_quik1.html#DonaldHamilton
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-), American Beat poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Number 20
http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti/e/B001JS66R8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1364070961&sr=8-3
Dario Fo (1926-) Italian playwright, the author of irreverent, anarchic, satiric plays—Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! (1974), and One Was Nude and One Wore Tails (1985). actor and mime artist, manager-director Nobel Lit 1997
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/fo-bio.html
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997/
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc32.html
Steve McQueen (1930 – 11/07/1980) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000537/bio
Nick Lowe (1949 – ) English singer-bassist-songwriter-producer
http://www.nicklowe.net/
Tabitha King (née Spruce) (1949- ) American author and activist.
“A Gradual Canticle for Augustine”:
The thinnest bear is awakened in the winter
by the sleep-laughter of locusts,
by the dream-blustering of bees,
by the honeyed scent of desert sands
that the wind carries in her womb
into the distant hills, into the houses of Cedar.
The bear has heard a sure promise
Certain words are edible; they nourish
more than snow heaped upon silver plates
or ice overflowing golden bowls. Chips of ice
from the mouth of a lover are not always better,
Nor a desert dreaming always a mirage.
The rising bear sings a gradual canticle
woven of sand that conquers cities
by a slow cycle. His praise seduces
a passing wind, traveling to the sea
wherein a fish, caught in a careful net,
hears a bear’s song in the cool-scented snow.
http://readingbyeugene.com/2010/12/03/a-gradual-canticle-for-augustine/
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/SKPage/TabithaKing.html
Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (1954- ) Russian dissident, poet and writer (Beyond the Limit)
http://www.allmusic.com/composition/songs-5-to-poems-by-irina-ratushinskaya-mc0002481840
http://www.coalhillreview.com/?p=230
Passed:
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Queen Elizabeth I (09/07/1533 –1603) English royalty
http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=elizabeth1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (02/27/1807 –1882) US writer
From Epilogue from The Golden Legend

The Angel of Evil Deeds (with open book). Not yet, not yet
Is the red sun wholly set,
But evermore recedes,
While open still I bear
The Book of Evil Deeds,
To let the breathings of the upper air
Visit its pages and erase
The records from its face!
Fainter and fainter as I gaze
On the broad blaze
The glimmering landscape shines,
And below me the black river
Is hidden by wreaths of vapor!
Fainter and fainter the black lines
Begin to quiver
Along the whitening surface of the paper;
Shade after shade
The terrible words grow faint and fade,
And in their place
Runs a white space!

A booklenght dramatic poem published in 1851.

http://www.online-literature.com/henry_longfellow/golden-legend/

Sir Edwin Arnold (June 10,1832-1904) Brit translator, poet and journalist, Destiny
http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/bhagavadgita_edwin_arnold/bhagavad_gita_edwin_arnold.php
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Arnold%2C%20Edwin%2C%20Sir%2C%201832-1904
Jules Verne (02/08/1828 – 1905) French writer
http://www.julesverne.ca/vernetitles.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Verne%2C%20Jules%2C%201828-1905
J. ohn M. illington Synge (04/16/1871 –1909) Irish writer
http://www.online-literature.com/synge/
Charlotte Mary Mew (15 Nov.1869 –1928) English poet
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Mew%2c%20Charlotte%20Mary%2c%201869%2d1928
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 –1993) Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist (Hiroshima)
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hersey_john
http://www.amazon.com/John-Hersey/e/B000AP8MMS
Martin Caidin, 14 September 1927-1997 - American aviation writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128780/
Sites:
http://www.brendashaughnessy.com/home.html
http://www.writermag.com/en.aspx
http://writersday.org/content/home
http://www.toadbooks.com/
Www.johnmichaelalbert.com
http://www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/

History:
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1776, one week after the British troops under General William Howe evacuated Boston, General George Washington wrote a letter to the Continental Congress. General Washington expressed his "surprize and disappointment" that the British fleet had not departed the harbor and described its various exploits while still in the region.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar24.html

1955 Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened at the Morosco Theater in New York. It starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Margaret, Ben Gazzara as Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3209/the-art-of-theater-no-5-tennessee-williams
http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=8822

Bonus Poem:

Lighting one candle
Lighting one candle
with another candle--
spring evening.
by Yosa Buson
or as the lightweight was heard to ask:

Haiku 24
If never nothing,
And always maybe something,
Why not everything?
Slm 032313

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