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Strafford Notes 16 April, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:08:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Action/Thriller

Take a minute to think about all the people killed and injured in yesterday's Boston Marathon bombing.

April 16
Events:
April 16 Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 –Feature Boston poet April Ranger & OpenMic Enjoy a full kitchen and bar Contact: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zion-Hill-Reading/97880931950
April 17 Concord, 7pm at Gibson’s Bookstore featured poets Nancy Bailey Miller & Pat Callan. Open mic follows. All are welcome, newcomers are encouraged! (arrive early to ensure a spot on the sign-up sheet). Street:27 S Main St http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/psnh-nancy-bailey-miller-pat-callanAdditional: City:
These just in:
Manchester April 18th – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – feature by Jeanann Verlee! and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)
April 26 Portsmouth RiverRunBooks7:00 p.m. Local poet and New(!!)Portsmouth Poet Laureate Kimberly Cloutier Green reading from and discussing her new book, The Next Hunger
142 Fleet Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-2100 info.riverrunbookstore.com
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/events/kimberly-cloutier-green-the-next-hunger

Born:
0416
Jacques Anatole France, François Thibault (1844 – 10/12/1924) French writer
novelist, poet, political satirist, and critic The Gods Are Athirst (1912), /1921 Nobel Prize winner
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/afrance.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1921/france-bio.html
Herbert Baxter Adams, 1850 - US, historian (American Historical Assn)
Wilbur Wright (1867 – 05/30/1912) US inventor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCIwrightW.htm
John Millington Synge (1871 – 03/24/1909) Irish writer/ dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea)

Sir Charles “Charlie” Spencer Chaplin (1889-12/25/1977) English-US comic, actor, filmmaker
http://www.charliechaplin.com/
Gertrude Chandler Warner , (1890 - 30 Aug. 1979) US Childrens Books Writer
http://www.amazon.com/Gertrude-Chandler-Warner/e/B000APBNMY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1366102366&sr=8-1
Samy Rosenstock Tristan Tzara (1896 – December 25, 1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist ,journalist, playwright, performance artist. literary and art critic, composer and film director-one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Tristan-Tzara.html
Denis Devlin (1908 - August 21, 1959) Irish modernist poet Encounter
http://www.poemhunter.com/denis-devlin/
Garth Williams (1912- May 8, 1996) US classic children's book illustrator
http://books.google.com/books?id=OUAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22garth+williams%22&as_brr=1&ei=JvkTS9KbH5mkM4LX5KEL#v=onepage&q=%22garth%20williams%22&f=false
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan (1918 – 27 February 2002) Brit. comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
Feelings
There must be a wound!
No one can be this hurt
and not bleed.

How could she injure me so?
No marks
No bruise

Worse!
People say 'My, you're looking well'
.....God help me!
She's mummified me -
ALIVE!

http://www.poemhunter.com/spike-milligan/
Sir Peter Ustinov (1921 – 03/28/2004) English actor/writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001811/
John Christopher Samuel Youd, (1922 – Feb.3, 2012) UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy)
http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/tripage/jc.html
Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 – 10/22/1995) English writer -novelist, poet, and short story writer
http://www.amazon.com/Kingsley-Amis/e/B000APUBAO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1366102405&sr=8-1
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/amis.htm
Ed Townsend 1929. African-American songwriter and producer. For Your Love 1958
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/ed-townsend-was-lyricist-his-heart
Carol Carol McLean Bly (1930- December 21, 2007) ) American essayist and short-story writer
http://milkweed.org/authors/carol-bly/
Sarah Kirsch, Ingrid Bernstein 1935 - German poet
http://www.enotes.com/sarah-kirsch-essays/kirsch-sarah
Dusty Springfield (1939 – 03/02/1999) English singer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dusty-springfield-mn0000159214
Diane Middlebrook (1939 – 12/15/2007) US writer
http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/
"Lonesome" Dave Peverett (1943 – 02/07/2000) English bassist
http://www.foghat.com/tribute/
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947 – ) US basketball player - the NBA’s all-time leading scorer
http://www.nba.com/history/players/abduljabbar_bio.html
Jon Bentley 1951 – ) US writer
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2000/april/3/1.html
Bill Belichick (1952 – ) US football coach
http://www.patriots.com/team/coaches/bill-belichick/5c49726a-15ad-4e5a-9246-a30417694eb0
Tracy K. Smith (1972- ) African American poet and educator. Life on Mars -2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/tracy-k-smith
Passed:
0416
Aphra Behn (07/10/1640-1689) English writer, poetess
http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/behn/behnbio.htm
Edna Ferber (08/15/1885 –1968) US writer- novelist, short story writer and playwright. ( American Beauty) Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924)
http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3AEdna%20Ferber%20-contributor%3Agutenberg%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272209/
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=5244
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/352/352-h/352-h.htm
Charles Grandison Finney, (Dec, 1905- 1984 )Writer , USA
http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/CharlesGFinney.php
Thomas L. Sherred (August 27, 1915 –1985) American science fiction writer.
http://www.catch22.com/SF/ARB/SFS/Sherred,TL.php3
Ralph Waldo Ellison, (03/01/1914 – 1994 US writer (Invisible Man)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rellison.htm
Skip Spence, (April 18,1946-1999) can/Amer guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane)
Cripple Creek
A cripple on his deathbed
In a daydream did ride
All past the streams of fire
On a petal path did glide

He left his wheelchair spinning
Deeper in the mud
In it set his memories
In its body and its blood

An angel came to greet him
By his side she flew
Whispered, as a part of him
What he already knew

His head was spinning freely
And it was plain to see
His burden was himself, he bore
The sight his eyes could be

His death, it died quite easily
Right there, was gone for good
But he couldn't see his loved one
Like he thought he should

He thought if they were gone, said he
And this cannot be true
The search to find what wasn't there
Has brought him back to you
A cripple on his deathbed
In a daydream did ride
All past the streams of fire
On a petal path did glide

He left his wheelchair spinning
Deeper in the mud
In it set his memories
In its body and its blood

An angel came to greet him
By his side she flew
Whispered, as a part of him
What he already knew

His head was spinning freely
And it was plain to see
His burden was himself, he bore
The sight his eyes could be

His death, it died quite easily
Right there, was gone for good
But he couldn't see his loved one
Like he thought he should

He thought if they were gone, said he
And this cannot be true
The search to find what wasn't there
Has brought him back to you
[ These are Cripple Creek Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/skip-spence-mn0000018835

Sites:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/
http://www.portveritas.com/wordpress/
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/greenha01.shtml
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-071.html
http://steinemspeaks.com/
http://www.whyy.org/91FM/live.php.

History:
1818 - The United States Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada
http://navalmarinearchive.com/research/rush-bagot_agreement.html
1862- President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1940- Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0
http://www.cleveland.com/plain-dealer-library/index.ssf/2010/04/cleveland_indian_bob_feller_hurls_an_opening_day_no-hitter_against_the_chicago_white_sox_the_plain_d.html
1962- Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was published.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/16/2013
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3053832&page=1#.UW0ZA6bD_dc
Bonus Poem:
Book Lover
I keep collecting books I know
I'll never, never read;
My wife and daughter tell me so,
And yet I never head.
"Please make me," says some wistful tome,
"A wee bit of yourself."
And so I take my treasure home,
And tuck it in a shelf.

And now my very shelves complain;
They jam and over-spill.
They say: "Why don't you ease our strain?"
"some day," I say, "I will."
So book by book they plead and sigh;
I pick and dip and scan;
Then put them back, distrest that I
Am such a busy man.

Now, there's my Boswell and my Sterne,
my Gibbon and Defoe;
To savour Swift I'll never learn,
Montaigne I may not know.
On Bacon I will never sup,
For Shakespeare I've no time;
Because I'm busy making up
These jingly bits of rhyme.

Chekov is caviare to me,
While Stendhal makes me snore;
Poor Proust is not my cup of tea,
And Balzac is a bore.
I have their books, I love their names,
And yet alas! they head,
With Lawrence, Joyce and Henry James,
My Roster of Unread.

I think it would be very well
If I commit a crime,
And get put in a prison cell
And not allowed to rhyme;
Yet given all these worthy books
According to my need,
I now caress with loving looks,
But never, never read.
Robert William Service

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