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Strafford Notes 13 April, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013 12:13:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Red Sox win 2-1, ten innings!!!

April 13
Events:

April 13, Chicago Poetry off the Shelf: A READING Poesía En Abril with Coral Bracho and Juan Carlos Mestre A special festival recognition night highlights the influential and inspiring work of two poets who have made significant contributions to Spanish-language poetry. 7:00 PM Free admission Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Coming up:
April 24 Portsmouth, at 7pm. The Portsmouth Public Library, In celebration of Poetry Month, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault sings verse into song Ballads to Blues/Burns to Hughes: Poems on the Edge of Song Guitar in hand, John Perrault urges the lyric tradition back into song in this retrospective of the American and English lyric. In addition to selected ballads, the presentation includes works by Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Dunbar, Hughes, Frost & Dylan. Joining John on selective numbers will be renowned flutist/recording artist Barbara London,and harmonica virtuoso Mike Rogers, on loan from Salt River & Wooden Eye. Admission is free and open to the general public. 175 Parrott Ave. 603-427-1540, For further information, please visitthe Library at: http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/ . To sample John’s ballads and poems, please visit: www.johnperrault.com . Atlantic Media Productions may be accessed at http://atlanticmediaproductions.com/ . This program will be video recorded by Atlantic Media Productions, and audience members can expect to be visually incorporated in the filming process. Portsmouth Public Library, http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/
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Born:
0413
Thomas Percy (1729-September 30, 1811) Eng Scholar, Bishop, poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/percy-thomas
Thomas Jefferson (1743-07/04/1826) US Pres (3),VP (2), inventor, lawyer, architect, gardener, and writer
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr13.html
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson/e/B00ATVXTM6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5?qid=1365763818&sr=8-5
Georg (György) Lukács (1885-June 4,1971) Hungarian literary historian, essayist, critic
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lukacs.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/
Alfred M. Butts (1899).US an architect // the man who invented the game Scrabble.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 – 12/22/1989) Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet,/ Nobel Prize for Literature 1969 Waiting for Godot (1952), Endgame (1957), and Krapp's Last Tape (1959).
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jobs
What Would I Do Without This World
what would I do without this world faceless incurious
where to be lasts but an instant where every instant
spills in the void the ignorance of having been
without this wave where in the end
body and shadow together are engulfed
what would I do without this silence where the murmurs die
the pantings the frenzies towards succour towards love
without this sky that soars
above its ballast dust
what would I do what I did yesterday and the day before
peering out of my deadlight looking for another
wandering like me eddying far from all the living
in a convulsive space
among the voices voiceless
that throng my hiddenness
http://www.best-poems.net/samuel_beckett/what_would_i_do_without_this_world.html
Eudora Welty (1909 – 07/23/2001) US writer 1972 Pulitzer Prize A Curtain of Green (1941),Delta Wedding (1946), Losing Battles (1970), and The Optimist's Daughter (1972).
http://eudoraweltysociety.org/
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/
Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919 – 09/29/1995) US atheist
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/madalyn-murray-ohair/
Don Adams (1923 – 09/25/2005) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/
Seamus Justin Heaney 1939- Irish poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner Death of a Naturalist (1966).Wintering Out (1972) In North (1975),Electric Light (2001).
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/heaney-seamus-justin
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/13/2013
J.M.G. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (1940-) French author Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/leclezio.htm
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/le-clezio
Lowell George,1945-29th June 1979. US singer, songwriter, guitarist, Little Feat. 'Dixie Chicken' and 'Sailin Shoes'. One time member of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lowell-george-mn0000835894
Al Green, 1946- , US soul singer, (1971 single 'Tired Of Being Alone', 1972 single 'Let's Stay Together'
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/al-green-mn0000607448
Rae Armantrout (1947- ) American poet Back
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rae-armantrout
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw090226rae_armantrout
Max Weinberg, 1951, US drummer, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, (1975 US single 'Born To Run'). Leader of the Max Weinberg Seven on ‘Late Night with Conan O'Brien’. Also the author of 1991 ‘The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Greatest Drummers’
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-weinberg-mn0000337324
http://www.amazon.com/Max-Weinberg/e/B001KHW69A

Passed:
0413
Jean de la Fontaine (07/08/1621 –1695) French writer 11. Nothing Too Much [13] Fables and Contes
http://oaks.nvg.org/fontaine.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7543/7543-h/7543-h.htm
Christopher Pitt, 1699-1748, translator of Virgil
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pitt%2C%20Christopher%2C%201699-1748
George Frederick Handel, (Feb23,1695 -1759) Ger. musical composer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-frederick-handel-mn0000805740
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (04/06/1741 – 04/13/1794 French writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/chamfort.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42377/42377-h/42377-h.htm
Jane Taylor (23rd Sept 1783 -1824) Eng Romantic Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/taylor-jane
Sydney Lady Morgan, miscellaneous writer, 1859,
John Humphrey Noyes (Sept 3, 1811-1886) American utopian socialist- Oneida Community founder
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35687/35687-h/35687-h.htm
Georges Duhamel (06/30/1884 –1966) French artist ,novelist ,playwright, poet Civilisation
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4325/4325-h/4325-h.htm
Roy Daniells (April 6, 1902-1979)Eng/can Educator-author, poet The Chequered Shade
http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=2002
Wallace Stegner (02/18/1909- 1993) US writer, teacher The Angle of Repose - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1972
http://wallacestegner.org/
http://www.amazon.com/Wallace-Stegner/e/B000APW7MO
George Mackay Brown (Oct 17, 1921-1996) Scott writer - playwright & poet Time in a Red Coat
A Work for Poets
To have carved on the days of our vanity
A sun
A ship
A star
A cornstalk

Also a few marks
From an ancient forgotten time
A child may read

That not far from the stone
A well
Might open for wayfarers

Here is a work for poets -
Carve the runes
Then be content with silence.

© GMB 1996
http://www.georgemackaybrown.co.uk/extracts%20from/PoemsIndex.htm
Dame Muriel Spark 02/01/1918 –2006) Scottish writer –novels, poet
http://www.muriel-spark.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/apr/17/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
http://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/MichaelListerMurielSpark.pdf.pdf
Sites:
http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/robert_service.htm
http://www.gwarlingo.com/
http://ncr-pca.org/
http://www.nmwa.org/
http://archive.org/stream/selectedpoemsofl00biny/selectedpoemsofl00biny_djvu.txt
http://nhtheatreproject.org/category/now-playing/
http://www.joycescraftshows.com/schedule.html
History:
0413
1668 John Dryden becomes Poet Laureate
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/dryden-john
1742, "Messiah," by George Frideric Handel, was first performed at the New Music Hall on Fishamble Street.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Glorious-History-of-Handels-Messiah.html
1949 Germany; The Nuremberg Trials end -19 top aides to Adolf Hitler receiving sentences for their part in war crimes against humanity.
http://tj.facinghistory.org/reading/nuremberg-trials-fact-sheet
1976 U.S.A.; $2.00 bill issued nationwide with portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the front and John Trumbles Portrait of the declaration on the back
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/
1980, The musical Grease closed after 3883 performances in New York City, having grossed over $8 million.
http://www.ibdb.com/show.php?id=4056
http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3641
1997 U.S.A.; Tiger Woods at 21 years old became the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament . Woods finished at 18-under-par 270, which was the lowest score ever shot during the Masters.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130413/DA5KGF881.html
2011 United States Baseball Star Bonds* Found Guilty of Obstruction of Justice after a trial about steroid use
http://www.barrybonds.com/
http://www.barrybondssteroids.net/

Bonus Poem:
A field of cotton
A field of cotton--
as if the moon
had flowered.
by Matsuo Basho

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