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Strafford Notes 10 April, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:53:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I missed a few days....I've been REALLY busy...I apologize

6:27 AM (7 hours ago)

to Steven
April 10
Events:
Exeter,Poetry . Water Street Books 6:30 featuring Kyle Potvin & Alfred Nicol followed by Open Mic 125 Water st. 778-9731
This update Just In!_
Effingham April 18, Effingham Writers’ Night will feature Sky King and music by Jim Pittman and Martha Nichols of Any Day Now.
folks are encouraged to read Walter Butts poems at open mic

Born:
John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (? 1647 – 26 July 1680),) Eng poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/wilmot-earl-rochester-john
General Lewis Wallace (1827-02/15/1905) American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author - Ben-Hur.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lwallace.htm
William Booth (1829 – 08/20/1912) English religious leader, Salvation Army founder
http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/wbc
Joseph Pulitzer (1847 – 10/29/1911) Hungarian/ American journalist, prize
http://www.onlineconcepts.com/pulitzer/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/pulitzer.htm
AE (George William Russell; 1867- July 17, 1935, Irish/Eng. poet, artist, and mystic, ( the Irish literary renaissance ) On a Hill-top
From ON AN IRISH HILL
A cabin on the mountain side hid in a grassy nook,
With door and windows open wide, where friendly stars may look;
The rabbit shy can patter in; the winds may enter free
Who throng around the mountain throne in living ecstasy.
And when the sun sets dimmed in eve and purple fills the air,
I think the sacred Hazel Tree is dropping berries there
From starry fruitage waved aloft where Connla's well o'er-flows:
For sure the immortal waters pour through every wind that blows.
I think when night towers up aloft and shakes the trembling dew,
How every high and lonely thought that thrills my being through
Is but a shining berry dropped down through the purple air,
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8105/8105-h/8105-h.htm#link2H_4_0019
http://www.bartleby.com/253/
Frances Perkins(1880 – 05/14/1965) US educator
http://www.francesperkinscenter.org/
Clare Boothe Luce (1903 – 10/09/1987) US journalist
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0010.html
Sheb Wooley (1921 – 09/16/2003) US actor, singer, songwriter , (1958 single, 'The Purple People Eater', played Pete Nolan in the TV series 'Rawhide').
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941125/
Pertti Pasanen 1930-Sept .7,2001 Fin film and television producer, director, comedian, scriptwriter, and inventor
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/spede.htm
Paul Theroux 1941 – US writer - novels travel memoirs
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Theroux/e/B000APWE3G/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365510103&sr=8-1
Norman Dubie, (1945- ) US, New England poet The Volcano (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); The Insomniac Liar of Topo (2007); The Mercy Seat : Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 (2004);Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum (2004); The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001 (2001), Selected and New Poems (1986), and The Clouds of Magellan (1992). -
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/172
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n1/poetry/dubie_n/south_boston_morning_53.htm
http://www.versedaily.org/riddle.shtml
Dave Pevertt, (1950- 7th Feb 2000) . vocals, guitar, Savoy Brown, Foghat, (1976 single 'Slow Ride').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lonesome-dave-peverett-mn0000281217
Anne Lamott (1954- ). US Writer, Operating Instructions (1993)
http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Lamott/e/B0034PEWO8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365510167&sr=8-1
Brian Setzer, 1959- , guitar, vocals, The Stray Cats, (, 1983 single 'Stray Cat Strut'). Brian Setzer Orchestra.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-setzer-mn0000519637It has kept you from loneliness like a mob.
Passed:
0410
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 –1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/rossetti-dante-gabriel
Algernon Charles Swinburne (04/05/1837-1909) Brit Victorian Poet Hope and Fear
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/swinburne-algernon-charles
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (4 Jan. 1835-1911) British civil servant, literary historian and poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/lyall-sir-alfred-comyn
Henry van Dyke (11/10/1852 –1933) US - Pol /Scholar / writer, ;Presbyterian clergyman. the book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (1896), the hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908).
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/van-dyke-henry
MY APRIL LADY

WHEN down the stair at morning
The sunbeams round her float,
Sweet rivulets of laughter
Are bubbling in her throat;
The gladness of her greeting
Is gold without alloy;
And in the morning sunlight
I think her name is Joy.

When in the evening twilight
The quiet book-room lies,
We read the sad old ballads,
While from her hidden eyes
The tears are falling, falling,
That give her heart relief;
And in the evening twilight,
I think her name is Grief.

My little April lady,
Of sunshine and of showers,
She weaves the old spring magic,
And breaks my heart in flowers!
But when her moods are ended,
She nestles like a dove;
Then, by the pain and rapture,
I know her name is Love.
"My April Lady" is reprinted from The White Bees and Other Poems. Henry van Dyke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
http://www.poetry-archive.com/v/my_april_lady.html
Kahlil Gibran (01/06/1883 –1931) Lebanese philosopher poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gibran.htm
Stuart Sutcliff June 23,1940 -1962, The Beatles former bass player (original bassist for eighteen months - January 1960 - June 1961). Sutcliff had stayed in Hamburg Germany after leaving the group.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stuart-sutcliffe-mn0001758442
Evelyn Waugh (10/18/1903 –1966) English writer
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/10/2013
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ewaugh.htm
Laurence Manning (January 1, 1899 -1972) Canadian science fiction author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/724604.Laurence_Manning

Sites:
http://www.connotationpress.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1
http://www.newsobserver.com/#navlink=navbar
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/index.htm
http://maryruefle.com/menu.html
http://www.nhms.com/actnow/
History:
0410
1872, celebration of the first Arbor Day
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1925.The Great Gatsby was published
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/fsfitzg.htm
1963 nuclear submarine Thresher broke apart at depth, killing 129 members aboard –worst submarine disaster in US history//50th anniversary
http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-thresher-593.htm
http://www.ussthresher.com/
http://threshermemorialkittery.sharepoint.com/Pages/default.aspx
1974, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir resigned
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html
Bonus Poem:

AFTERMATH

Dear, they are singing your praises,
Now you are gone.
But only I saw your going,
I ... alone ... in the dawn.

Dear, they are weeping about you,
Now you are dead,
And they've placed a granite stone
Over your head.

I cannot cry any more,
Too burning deep is my grief. . , .
I dance through my spendthrift days
Like a fallen leaf.

Faster and faster I whirl
Toward the end of my days.
Dear, 1 am drunken with
And lost down strange ways.

If only the dance would finish
Like a flash in the sky . . . oh, soon,
If only a storm would come shouting
Hurl me past stars and moon!

Louise Bryant

From The Liberator

http://www.archive.org/stream/antholog

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