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Strafford Notes 4 April, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:53:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Enjoy today's. If you can make it, the readings at the Portable Pantry in Rochester should be interesting. All those young poets!

Steven Manning
6:29 AM (6 hours ago)

to Steven
April 4
Events:
April 4, Plymouth: Eagle Pond Authors Series will present the Connecticut poet laureate and Pushcart Prize winner Dick Allen. Reception and book signing will follow. Tickets are free, but seating is limited. Tickets may be reserved through the Silver Center box office by phone (603) 535-2787 or by email silver-center.plymouth.edu. At 7 p.m., Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University (www.silvercenter.edu).
Rochester 4th Annual Young Writers Night Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the features start at 6:15 p.m. – 12 Hanson St Portable Pantry , Rochester – Features (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. Pat O’Brien, 866-6034
April 4 Exeter WaterStreet Books Portsmouth Poet Laureate Mark DeCarteret will introduce.
Poet award-winning poet, journalist, essayist, and playwright. Christopher Locke 7:00 pm 125 Water Street 603-778-9731 http://waterstreetbooks.com/event/poet-christopher-locke
1st Thursday of the month - 7:00pm – Adelle’s Coffeehouse, Dover – Primal Tongue - Features followed by open mike prose (Josiah Eikelboom, 205-6192, jeikelboom.osiail.com)
Manchester– 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )
ThisJustIn-
April 5 Exeter– 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Local musicians -Steve Brough, James Davenport and Lizz Ferdina are Features followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net )
AND:
April 9 Portland Me, . Bull Feeney’s Portland Poet Laureate: Bruce Spang Please join us ! A great room, excellent food and a full bar. 375 Fore Street, 7:30pm (weekly workshop at 6:30pm), $3 or 2 for $5, 18+ (unless accompanied by adult) Please spread the word. Best Regards, Gil Helmick 400.7543

Born:
April 4
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802 – July 17, 1887) American activist who aroused interest in treatment of mental inmatesand created the first generation of American mental asylums
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/harrisburg_pa/index.html
James Freeman Clarke (1810 – 06/08/1888) US theologian
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/jamesfreemanclarke.html
Margaret Oliphant (1828 – 06/25/1897) Scottish writer biographer (Beleaguered City)
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/oliphant/bio.html
Hans Richter (1843 – 12/05/1916) Hungarian conductor
http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/great-directors/hans-richter/
Rémy de Gourmont (1858, - Sept 27, 1915,) French essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gourmo.htm
Litanies of the Rose
Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

Rose the colour of pure gold,
oh safe deposit of the ideal,
rose the colour of pure gold,
give us the key of your womb,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

Rose the colour of silver,
censer of our dreams,
rose the colour of silver,
take our heart and turn it into smoke,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/g/hair.html
Edith Södergran 1892-June 24,1923 Swedish /Finland Pioneer of poetry Complete Poems (1984)
My Artificial Flowers
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sodergra.htm
Robert Emmett Sherwood (1896 – 11/14/1955) U.S. playwright { The Petrified Forest (1935), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), and There Shall Be No Night (1940);} and historian { Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (1949)}; who was a member of the Algonquin round table and Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter in the 1940s… also wrote the screenplay for the movie The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsherwoodR.htm
Stanley G. rauman Weinbaum, (1902 - December 14, 1935) American science-fiction author
, "A Martian Odyssey", 1934,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23731/23731-h/23731-h.htm
Marguerite Duras (1914-Nov.3,1996), French novelist,scenarist, playwright, and film director, (The Sea Wall)
http://www.amazon.com/Marguerite-Duras/e/B000AQ3BIC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365065024&sr=8-1
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/duras.htm
Muddy Waters (1915 – 04/30/1983) US blues singer, guitarist ( 'I Just Want To Make Love To You', 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man', 'Got My Mojo Working.')
http://www.muddywaters.com/bio.html
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/muddy-waters-mn0000608701
Maya Angelou Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 –) US novelist poet, dramatist, and performer (1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
http://mayaangelou.com/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2139706,00.html
Timothy Thomas Anthony White,(1952- ) Eng illustrator
http://www.tim-white.co.uk/
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/white_tim
Passed:
0404

Oliver Goldsmith (11/10/1728 –1774) Irish writer/ poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/goldsmith-oliver
William Henry Harrison (02/09/1773 – 04/04/1841) US President (9)
http://millercenter.org/president/harrison
Karl Friedrich Benz, (Nov 25, 1844 –1929) German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/index
John Peale Bishop, (May 21, 1892 –1944) American poet and man of letters. (Undertaker's Garland)
Admonition

LOCK your bedroom doors with terror.
Comb your hair between two lights.
In the gold Venetian chamber
But for them let all be sombre.
Sit, and see reflected lights
Color time within your mirror.

Comb, comb, your bright hair. Rain
Fiery threads upon a shadow.
Stare until you see dilated
Eyes stare out as once the excited
Young men coming out of shadow,
Stared into a burning pain.

Find the loveliest shroud you own.
Stilt a ceremonious
Height on gilded heels. Then summon
To a rarity grown common
Starved arachnid, the dead-louse
And whatever feeds on bone.

http://allpoetry.com/John_Peale_Bishop

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr - 1968 civil rights leader
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
C[atherine L[ucille] Moore, January 24,1911-1987 American writer
http://www.thecimmerian.com/queen-of-swords-c-l-moore/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600987/

Sites:
http://roadpoetspage.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/07/eulogy-for-an-anchorite/305121/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXa6V0aLQ8Q&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Email+Newsletter&utm_campaign=866a864159-The_Frost_Place_E_Newsletter3_13_2013&utm_medium=email
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGoZNjNgcP0
http://poemshape.wordpress.com/
http://powowriverpoets.com/poetry-readings.html
https://www.muckrock.com/

History:
0404
1873, Carrie S. Burnham argued for her right to vote before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Bonus Poe:
Unwedded
ALONG her tranquil way she went,
The slow, sad course of changeless years,
While in her burned her youth unspent,
Dulled sometimes by her gentle tears.
In richer lives she saw the strange,
5
Sweet urgency of wedded days;
In dreams she watched her pale light change,
Into the steadfast altar blaze.
And, waking, sadly bowed above
Her slender vestal flame and wept;
10
Ah, better were the house of love,
By blighting fire and tempest swept.
By Ada Foster Murray
http://www.bartleby.com/292/94.html

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