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Strafford Notes 27 March, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:38:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Skip's bonus poem today is very evocztive, especially if you are the paent of a daughter.

March 27
Events:
March 27, Farmington– 6 pm – The Goodwin Library, Farmington – Adult Poets and Writers Group //COME WISH Steph Your Best! (795-5944, http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/poetwrite.html
March 27, Washington Lib of Congress 6:30 PM Fellowship Of Southern Writers Celebration Mumford, James Madison Building An event to highlight distinguished literary writers and writing from the South, hosted by Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (and Mississippi Poet Laureate) Natasha Trethewey. Readers include Madison Smart Bell, Edward P. Jones, Jill McCorkle, Ron Rash, and Charles Wright. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Publishing Office of the Library of Congress. Contact: (202) 707-5394
Coming Up:
March 29, NY,NY - 6:30PM Poets House This is a private event. Guests will gather to celebrate the life and work of poet and educator Charles W. Pratt. The evening begins at 6:30pm with cocktails, followed immediately by readings and presentations in memory of Charles W. Pratt. After the readings, guests are invited to enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres and drinks in Poets House's library, located on the second floor. RSVP by email to blongstreth.mindspring.com or nfpotter.debevoise.com or cpratt.exeter.edu http://www.poetshouse.org/
Born:
0327

Wilhelm Röntgen, (1845- 10 Feb 1923)). Prussian physicist the man who discovered X-rays by accident, in 1895— which ushered in a new age of physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html
Patty Smith Hill, (1868 – May 25, 1946) American nursery school, and kindergarten teacher,author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
http://www.recess.ufl.edu/transcripts/2005/0325.shtml
Heinrich Mann (1871-03/12/1950) German novelist and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm
Marie Under (1883 -09/25/ 1980) Estonian poet Question
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/under.htm
Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (1889 Dec11,1969) English author of historical novels
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Margaret%20E.%20Irwin&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMargaret%20E.%20Irwin
James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( 1892 – June 21, 1934) US writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction - Topper novels
http://www.thornesmith.net/
Kenneth Adolf Slessor OBE (1901 – 30 June 1971) Australian poet and journalist.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kenneth-slessor
Budd Schulberg (1914-08/05/2009) U.S. Novelist and screenwriter / scriptwriter ,won eight Academy Awards On the Waterfront (1954)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/schulbe.htm
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (1923- Jamaica) American poet. 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry At The End Of The Open Road.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/86

On The Lawn At The Villa
On the lawn at the villa—
That’s the way to start, eh, reader?
We know where we stand—somewhere expensive—
You and I imperturbes, as Walt would say,
Before the diversions of wealth, you and I engagés.

On the lawn at the villa
Sat a manufacturer of explosives,
His wife from Paris,
And a young man named Bruno,

And myself, being American,
Willing to talk to these malefactors,
The manufacturer of explosives, and so on,
But somehow superior. By that I mean democratic.
It’s complicated, being an American,
Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
Perhaps, after all, this is not the right subject for a poem.

We were all sitting there paralyzed
In the hot Tuscan afternoon,
And the bodies of the machine-gun crew were draped over the balcony.
So we sat there all afternoon.
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poet/louis-simpson
Sarah Vaughan 1924- April 3,1990, . African-American vocalist
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_vaughan_sarah.htm
Anthony Lewis, (1927- March 25, 2013) American New York Times columnist Gideon's Trumpet (1964), a history of the landmark Supreme Court case in which prisoner James Gideon fought for the right to legal counsel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/26/anthony-lewis
Michael Jackson (1942 – 30 August 2007) English writer and journalist. He was the author of several influential critical books about beer and whisky. 1977 The World Guide to Beer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/sep/04/guardianobituaries.lifeandhealth
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/speccoll/michaeljackson.html
K. Peddlar Bridges US Bikerpoet, Writer and former Connecticut Bike Week and Super Sunday Expo (R) Poet Laureate. He has been a Columnist and Senior Columnist for the Connecticut Cruise News, Motorcyclegoodies.com, The Motorcyclists' Post and The Chop-Shop Customs News Letter.
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2012/05/shifting-gears-remembering-miles-by-k.html
http://www.highwaypoetsmc.com/apps/videos/videos/show/14878624
Julia Alvarez (1950-) novelist and poet
http://www.amazon.com/Julia-Alvarez/e/B000APAQVS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1364373258&sr=8-1
Thomas Reid Pearson, (1956- ). US Author - Neely Trilogy of novels: A Short History of a Small Place (1985), Off for the Sweet Hereafter (1986), and The Last of How It Was (1987)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/t-r-pearson/
John O'Farrell (1962-) Eng author-humorist , columnist, a stand-up comedian, and an author. An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always (2009). His fourth novel, The Man Who Forgot His Wife (2012)
http://www.amazon.com/John-OFarrell/e/B001HORTY8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1364373291&sr=8-1
Quentin Tarantino, 1963 – US director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
http://www.fandango.com/quentintarantino/biography/p113658
Pauley Perrette, 1969 - American actress, photographer, poet, writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005306/bio
Mariah Carey 1970-African-American R&B & pop singer, songwriter, record producer & actress
http://mariahcarey.com/
Passed:
0327
Anton Ulrich, ( October 4,1633-1714 German duke of Brunswick/ 1685-/poet
http://welfen.de/AntonUlr.htm
Jean-Jacques Ampère, ((12 August 1800 –1864) French philologist and man of letters
http://www.bibliotheque-mazarine.fr/expoampere/expoampere.htm
John Bright (11/16/1811 –1889), Quaker, British Radical and Liberal statesman; great orator writer
http://www.amazon.com/John-Bright/e/B001HCRXVO
Henry Brooks Adams (02/16/1838 –1918) US writer -The Education of Henry Adams (1918 Pulitzer Prize for in 1919.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5
M. C. Maurits Cornelis Escher (06/17/1898 –1972) Dutch artist
http://www.mcescher.com/
Malcolm Cowley (08/24/1898 –1989) US novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcowleyM.htm
H.R.F.Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating (31 October 1926 –2011) English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/Entry/keating_h_r_f
Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 –, 2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=428
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/21%20love%20poems
from Twenty-One Love Poems
III
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time
for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp
in time tells me we're not young.
Did I ever walk the morning streets at twenty,
my limbs streaming with a purer joy?
did I lean from any window over the city
listening for the future
as I listened here with nerves tuned for your ring?
And you, you move toward me with the same tempo.
Your eyes are everlasting, the green spark
of the blue-eyed grass of early summer,
the green-blue wild cress washed by the spring
. At twenty, yes: we thought we'd live forever.
At forty-five, I want to know even our limits.
I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
http://southerncrossreview.org/41/rich.htm
Sites:
http://www.artsjournal.com/
http://www.conwaypubliclibrary.org/
http://www.goodwinlibrary.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-bergquist/crowdsourced-books_b_2792704.html?utm_hp_ref=books
http://www.itif.org/

History:
0327
1802-Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850) wrote Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/

1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Top of Form
Bonus Poem:
My Little Sapling
I want for her what I want for it.
That she take hold, branch out and stand tall.
Her roots find a home in the stony brown soil.
That she may embrace each season of change.
And know in her branchings to seek balance.
When to flower and when to bide.
To face the sun and know that what is lost
Will surely grow again and again.
That she may one day find a place of her own
In an orchard for others to see
Standing tall with the rest of the forest . . .
And most of all, that she outlast me!
- Linda Mannke
http://www.thesomervillenews.com/archives/2157

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