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Strafford Notes 25 March, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013 8:12:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

When will spring come????

March 25
Events:
March 25th Portland . Mama’s CrowBar Featuring Desireé Dallagiacomo, a New Orleans based performance poet 189 Congress Street, 9pm, 21+ (beer only/cash only)
Born:
0325
Anne Brontë / Acton Bell (1820-28 May 1849) Eng Victorian Governess / writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/abronte.htm
Arturo Toscanini (1867 – 01/16/1957) Italian violinist, conductor, composer
http://test.toscaninionline.com/
http://test.toscaninionline.com/bio.htm
Alan John Percivale Taylor (1906 – 09/07/1990) English historian
http://www.amazon.co.uk/A.-J.-P.-Taylor/e/B000AP5G6S
[Mary] Flannery O'Connor (1925-08/03/1964)) Georgian novelist
http://www.amazon.com/Flannery-OConnor/e/B000APYI6W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1364131034&sr=8-1
http://www.flanneryoconnor.org/
Paul Mark Scott (1920-March 1,78) British writer; Booker Prize (1977) The Raj Quartet (1965-1975), The Jewel in the Crown
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/pscott.htm
Gloria Steinem (1934 – ) US feminist, writer
http://www.amazon.com/Gloria-Steinem/e/B000APGDAQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1364131080&sr=8-1
http://www.gloriasteinem.com/
Miltona Mirkin Toni Cade Bambara (1939- Dec9,1995) African-American fiction writer, scriptwriter, and essayist Gorilla, My Love
http://lead.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/bambara.html
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, (1941- ) US novelist and poet, author of Buffalo Afternoon (1988), The Golden Rope (1996), and The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat (1997)
http://www.amazon.com/Susan-Fromberg-Schaeffer/e/B000APHUD0
Sherlock Holmes
From the mansion staircase the marble floor is a chessboard
And she is a round plump pawn moving from square to square
Scrubbing that floor clean,
While up above, the detective watches her
As rounds of light pick out this object and that,
Saying: this belongs to the guilty party,
As does this, and this, and this,
And on the chessboard that is his mind,
He moves them from place to place, and in minutes
The guilty one has sunk into the floor, knee-deep
While the innocent erratically and guiltily ascend
Like angels newly made.
But life is not like that.
There is no innocence or guilt in the thick and trackless wood,
No intention in the leaves covering the footprints as they fall
So that the wanderer who has unwittingly turned his face
To the hungry dark cannot be followed,
Coaxed to turn back to the light.
The wolves, too, are innocent, their strong jaws hungry,
Their joints of polished steel, running darkly through the dark,
As the night would run, could it run,
And if they overtake him in the clearing, in the wood,
Where he pauses to look up at the bright, blind moon
His blood is another kind of rain
And the earth accepts it as it accepts everything that falls.
The wind in the blood, the storm in the heart,
The wolves in the skull seeing with your eyes,
Speaking with your voice,
There is innocence here, and mystery,
And he chews on his pipe as the light pools and clots,
And Watson is dead, has he killed Watson?
As the room gets darker, he grows smaller and smaller,
A random wind whirls him up and higher up,
Until he is only a tiny black dot of dust
Temporarily blocking a star.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n18/susan-frombergschaeffer/sherlock-holmes
Aretha Franklin (1942 – ) US Queen of Soul 1967 'Respect, 1968 'I Say A Little Prayer' & 1987 with George Michael 'I Knew You Were Waiting'
http://www.aretha-franklin.com/
Elton John ( Reginald Dwight), (1947 – ) English singer/pianist, , songwriter, Nickname, Rocket Man. 1971 'Your Song', 1973 'Crocodile Rock' Biggest selling single of all time with 1997 'Candle In The Wind 97', Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
http://www.eltonjohn.com/
Kate DiCamillo (1964). US young adult novelist Because of Winn-Dixie- Newbery Medal (2000). The Tale of Desperaux (2003), Newbery Medal (2004) The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006), and The Magician's Elephant (2009).
http://www.amazon.com/Kate-DiCamillo/e/B001H6MDMY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1364131364&sr=8-3

Passed:
0325
Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (05/02/1772 –1801) German writer
http://www.rspearson.com/novalis.html
Frederic Mistral, 1914- French poet (Nobel-1904) Provençal poet and ethnographer
http://archive.org/stream/mirioprovena00mistuoft/mirioprovena00mistuoft_djvu.txt
http://www.nobelliterature.com/nobelliteraturelist/nobelprize19011910/82-1904frederic-mistraljose-echegaray-.html
Marseilles
Thou fair Marseilles, who openest on the sea
Thy haughty eyes and gazest languidly,
As though naught else were worthy to behold,
And, though the winds rage, dreamest but of gold,
When Lazarus preached to thee, thou didst begin
Those eyes to close, and see the night within,
And to the fountain of l'Huveaune speeding,
The source whereof Magdaleue's tears were feeding,
Didst wash thy sins away; and in this hour
Art proud once more; but other storms may lower.
Forget not, then, amid thy revelries,
Whose tears they are that bathe thine olive-trees!
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/author/338/fr%E9d%E9ric-mistral.html

Claude deBussy (08/22/1862 –1918) French composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/claude-debussy-mn0000768781
Max Eastman (01/04/1883 –1969) US writer critic/essayist
http://www.marxists.org/archive/eastman/
Goodman Ace (01/15/1899 –1982) US humorist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009640/
R. V. Cassill ( May 17,1919-2002) US Novelist Dr. Cobb's Game
http://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Ronald%20Verlin%2C%20Cassill&ie=UTF8&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
Buck Owens (08/12/1929 –2006) US musician - singer and guitarist /Pioneered the Bakersfield sound a reference to Bakersfield, California. He scored twenty No.1 hits on the Billboard country music charts.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654325/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Dan Seals (Feb 8. 1948-2009) US Country Musician England Dan and John Ford Coley
http://www.sealsandseals.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/england-dan-john-ford-coley-mn0000196993

Sites:
http://www.authorsden.com/categories/poetry_top.asp?id=186083&catid=33
http://www.makeup.com/beauty-news-2/
http://www.geekswhodrink.com/index.cfm
http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Wild.htm
http://www.locusmag.com/
http://www.poeticentanglement.com/
History:
0325
1634, arrival of the first colonists to the land (Maryland) that King Charles I of England had chartered to Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore is celebrated . Named for the king's wife, Henrietta Maria. In 1649, Governor William Stone, under the direction of Lord Baltimore, passed an act ensuring religious liberty and justice to all who believed in Jesus Christ.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar25.html
1957, U.S. Customs agents seized 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl on the grounds of obscenity.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=3/25/2013
1960, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the unabridged version of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, was not obscene
http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=12/20/1929
Bonus Poem:
Brass Kaleidoscope

My daughter raises the smooth
brass kaleidoscope
and watches as coloured glass slivers
conspire together.
New worlds create themselves before her eyes.
Garnet spires flirt with sapphire
and turquoise.
Topaz and amethyst meet in harmony,
a selenic mystery.
A melody of stars singing a tune only she
can hear.
Eclectic patterns shiver and shimmer
then splinter,
sparking off at tangents of
tourmaline and jasper.
An image complete in itself.

I had a kaleidoscope once.
Sometimes
I still see oblique patterns.

Slowly my daughter turns the wheel, finds
a jewelled tapestry
to her liking, and hands the kaleidoscope
to me.
For a time I see the world she sees
and it is good.

by Dale Harcombe

*First published LiNQ October 1990
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/dale_harcombe/poems

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