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Strafford Notes 15 April, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013 9:36:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

This is Patriot's Day....how very taxing...

April 15 -Tax Day{ http://www.irs.gov/ }
Events:
April 15 Rye, 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Foyes Crnr.Rye– Special feature Danielle Jacbowitz followed by Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).
April 15 Portsmouth Public Library, Parrott Avenue, Poet Mimi White - 7pm in the Hilton Garden Inn Room - a discussion of Memory Wont Save Me: a haibun http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/
ThisJustIn:
April 16 Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and will start by 7 –Feature Boston poet April Ranger & OpenMic Enjoy a full kitchen and bar https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zion-Hill-Reading/97880931950
Born:
0415
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 05/02/1519) Italian artist, writer, inventor, philosopher... the Original Renaissance Man
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 09/18/1783) Swiss mathematician and physicist
http://www.indiatimes.com/technology/internet/google-doodle-happy-birthday-leonhard-euler-72124.html
Benjamin Jowett (1817 – 10/01/1893) English educator, scholar
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/jowett_b
Henry James (1843 – 02/28/1916) US writer- literature, psychology, and philosophy
http://www.amazon.com/Henry-James/e/B000APYNL2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365941729&sr=8-1
Émile Durkheim (1858 – 11/15/1917) French sociologist
http://www.emile-durkheim.com/
Bliss Carman (1861 – 06/08/1929) Canadian writer /poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/carman-bliss
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Carman%2C%20Bliss%2C%201861-1929
Morris Bishop (1893-Nov 20, 1973). US humorist (author of light verse) and biographer ;full-time professor at Cornell ; a brilliant scholar
http://www.amazon.com/Morris-Bishop/e/B001H6R0IQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1365941689&sr=8-1
http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/18573/2/Bishop_Morris_Gilbert_1973.pdf
Bessie Smith, (1898- Sept 26, 1937). "the Empress of the Blues". She recorded 150 blues songs, backed by such great musicians as Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Goodman 'Downhearted Blues', 'St Louis Blues', and 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out'.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=960
Arshile Gorky, (1915- ). Armenian/American painter
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0297/AGorky.html
Thomas Szasz (1920 –09082012 ) Hungarian writer
http://www.szasz.com/
Max Rosenlicht (1924 – 01/22/1999) US mathematician, professor
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=12700
Thomas Tranströmer (1931-) Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator, Nobel Prize for Literature 2011
Outskirts

Men in overalls the same color as earth rise from a ditch.
It's a transitional place, in stalemate, neither country nor city.
Construction cranes on the horizon want to take the big leap,
but the clocks are against it.
Concrete piping scattered around laps at the light with cold tongues.
Auto-body shops occupy old barns.
Stones throw shadows as sharp as objects on the moon surface.
And these sites keep on getting bigger
like the land bought with Judas' silver: 'a potter's field for
burying strangers.'

translated by Robert Bly
http://www.poemhunter.com/tomas-transtr-mer/poems/
http://tomastranstromer.net/
Roy Clark (1933- ) US singer, (1969 single, 'Yesterday, When I Was Young'). Actor (Hee Haw)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164450/

Jeffrey Archer (1940 – ) English writer, sometime politician
http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/site/
Dave Edmunds (1944 – ) English guitar, vocals, producer, Love Sculpture, (1968 single 'Sabre Dance'), solo (1970 single 'I Hear You Knocking'). Member of Rockpile.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/dave-edmunds/
Michael Kamen, (1948 - Nov 18th 2003) American composer and orchestral arranger. Worked with many acts including Pink Floyd, Queen, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Kamen co-wrote Bryan Adams' ballad ‘(Everything I Do), I Do It for You.’
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-kamen-mn0000452817
Linda Perry, 1965, , songwriter, producer, singer, 4 Non Blondes, (1993 single ‘What’s Up’, 1993 album ‘Bigger Better Faster More!). Wrote ‘Beautiful’ for Christina Aguilera.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/linda-perry-mn0000285294

Passed:
0415

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon (11/27/1635 –1719) French courtesan, writer
http://www.iep.utm.edu/mainteno/
Abraham Lincoln (02/12/1809 –1865) US President (12)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1118823/
Matthew Arnold (12/24/1822 –1888) English writer , poet and cultural critic
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/arnold-matthew
Sonnet:To an Independent Preacher

Who preached that we should be ‘in harmony with nature’

‘IN harmony with Nature’? Restless fool,
Who with such heat dost preach what were to thee,
When true, the last impossibility;
To be like Nature strong, like Nature cool:—
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more,
5
And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Nature is cruel; man is sick of blood:
Nature is stubborn; man would fain adore:
Nature is fickle; man hath need of rest:
Nature forgives no debt, and fears no grave;
10
Man would be mild, and with safe conscience blest.
Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends;
Nature and man can never be fast friends.
Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Arnold-M.html
John Singer Sargent (01/12/1856 –1925) US artist
http://www.johnsingersargent.org/
Jean-Paul Sartre (06/21/1905 –1980) French existential writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sartre.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1964/sartre-bio.html
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 –1912) American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War .Went down with RMS Titanic.
http://news.hrvh.org/cgi-bin/newshrvh?a=d&cl=search&d=kingstondaily19120503.2.136
Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 –1912) American journalist and mystery writer. Went down with RMS Titanic.
http://www.futrelle.com/
Gyula Illyes ( 1903-1983) Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2012/11/gyula-illyes.html
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 –1984) English literary critic and poet.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n10/frank-kermode/the-savage-life
Jean Genet (12/19/1910 –1986) French writer
http://jeangenet.pbworks.com/w/page/5755572/FrontPage
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-60478
Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, Charteris (12 May 1907-1993), half-Chinese, -English author of mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter -, "The Saint."
http://www.saint.org/lcbio.htm
Sam Moskowitz (30 June 1920-1997) Science fiction writer, critic, and historian
http://libraryasp.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/lit/science/sci-fi/cbsff/moskowitz.htm
Edward Gorey (02/22/1925 –2000) US artist
http://www.goreyography.com/
Byron R. White (06/08/1917 –2002) US Supreme Court
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/04/15/white-obit.htm
Damon Francis Knight (Sept 19, 1922 –2002) American science fiction author, editor, critic
http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Knight.htm

Sites:
http://www.defenders.org/
http://www.newamericanwriting.com/current.htm
http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/dcor120811fq_WEBSITE.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetry-of-america/
http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#
http://htmlgiant.com/tag/kirill-medvedev/

History:
0415
1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/sacco.htm
1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 homeruns of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats12c.shtml
1947, Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball "color line"
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr15.html
1988 Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles", premieres in NYC
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4538
1996, The rest of Jerry Garcia's ashes were scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=380&page=gr
Bonus Poem:
In the Park

HE whistled soft whistlings I knew were for me,
Teasing, endearing.
Won’t you look? was what they said,
But I did not turn my head.
(Only a little I turned my hearing.)
5
My feet took me by;
Straight and evenly they went:
As if they had not dreamed what he meant:
As if such a curiosity
Never were known since the world began
10
As woman wanting man!
My heart led me past and took me away;
And yet it was my heart that wanted to stay.

By Helen Hoyt
http://www.bartleby.com/292/

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