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Strafford Notes 19 April, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013 8:00:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Pasted to my TV watching events unfold in the Boston area. I don't think the talking heaeds know any more than I. Do the police know more?

April 19
Events,comming2 yoaaaa neighborhood:
April 20 Manchester SLAM FREE OR DIE presents the 2013 NH POETRY SLAM FINALS! NO open mic or feature We want to get right to the main event! Doors open at 7pm. $5 cover. Slam starts at 8. som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale!10 poets 2 rounds! on this night, som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale! on this night, som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale! Milly's Tavern. 500 Commercial St, Manchester, http://www.facebook.com/events/325316237570914/
April21Exeter ,7:PM at FUUSE Roy Zimmerman, musician, who tours the country as a satirist, humorist singing songs on topics of equal marriage, social justice, and social commentary,. Elm St Exeter
“Creation Science 101” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs
APRIL 21, PORTSMOUTH River Run Books Fleet St ,5:00 Pm Celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading featuring poets Gibson Fay-Leblanc and Christopher Locke http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
APRIL 21, PORTSMOUTH River Run Books Fleet St ,5:00 Pm Celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading featuring poets Gibson Fay-Leblanc and Christopher Locke http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
April 22 Farmington Goodwin Library Poets and Writers 6 pm
www.farmingtonnhpoetandwriterproject.blogspot.com
April 22 Wolfeboro Public Library Special poetry evening during National Poetry Month featuring Alton poet Barbara Bald and Laconia poet Charlotte Cox in a program entitled "Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward." The remainder of the library’s poetry evening will offer open mike time for poets, musicians, and other writers from the audience, along with a chance to meet the poets and ask questions about the writing process. http://www.wolfeboronh.us/Pages/WolfeboroNH_Library/index
April 24 Portsmouth, at 7pm. The Portsmouth Public Library, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault sings verse into song Ballads to Blues/Burns to Hughes: Poems on the Edge of Song 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, http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/ . : http://www.johnperrault.com/ . http://atlanticmediaproductions.com/ . http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/
April 25 Bristol The Back Room at The Mill for the New Hampshire launch of Ivy Pages Any Other Branch. This will be a night of friends, laughter, poetry and food http://thebackroom.ticketleap.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:
0419
Anna Letitia Waring (1823- 1910 )) Welsh Anglican Hymnist/poet “Hymns and Meditations”
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/waring-anna-letitia
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre 1832-1916 Spanish politician, writer, and mathematician, dramatist. Shared Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/eizaguir.htm
Edith Clara Summerskill (1901 – 02/04/1980) English politician, physician, writer
http://battleofbritain.devhub.com/blog/691621-edith-clara-summerskill-19011980-and-womens-home-defence-corps/
Etheridge Knight (1931-March 10,1991) African-American poet Poems from Prison
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/etheridge-knight
http://www.amazon.com/Etheridge-Knight/e/B001HOMQJG/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1366362925&sr=8-1
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes 1900-76 British playwright, poet, short story writer, and novelist A High Wind in Jamaica
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/shorttitle/hughes.html
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8618589-The_Singing_Furies-by-Richard_Arthur_Warren_Hughes
http://allpoetry.com/Richard_Arthur_Warren_Hughes

from Moonstruck

Ah, desperate man with haggard eyes
And hands that fence away the skies,
On rock and briar stumbling,
Is it fear of the storm's rumbling,
Of the hissing cold rain,
Or lightning's tragic pain
Drives you so madly?
See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy shallows and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
Where's cause for fear?

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rhughes.htm
Jayne Mansfield (1933 – June 29, 1967) American actress - Broadway and in Hollywood
http://www.jaynemansfield.com/
Jon Agee (1960- ), US cartoonist for The New Yorker and written and illustrated many children's books
http://www.amazon.com/Jon-Agee/e/B001H6GY0Q/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1366362870&sr=8-3
Al Unser, Jr. 1962- Two-time Indy 500 winner
http://www.alunserjr.com/
Ashley Judd (1968 – ) US actor…
http://ashleyjudd.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000171/

Passed:
0419
Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, (1536-1608) poet, Lord Treasurer of England
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sackville-earl-dorset-thomas
Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1626-89,
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/wasa.html
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 -1813) Founding Father of the United States-physician, writer, educator, humanitarian, and founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rush_benj.html
George, (Gordon), Lord 6th Byron (of Rochdale),, (1788-1824) - Romantic poet and satirist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/byron-george-gordon-lord
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm
Benjamin Disraeli, 21 December 1804- 1881 1st Earl (Beaconsfield) ) British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure; twice as Prime Minister of Great Britain
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/disraeli_benjamin
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/dec/04/what-disraeli-can-teach-us/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdisraeli.htm
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840-1893) Eng poet & critic
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18044/18044-h/18044-h.htm
Hymn
THESE things shall be, -- a loftier race
Than ere the world hath known shall rise
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.
They shall be gentle, brave, and strong
To spill no drop of blood, but dare
All that may plant man's lordship firm
On earth and fire, and sea, and air.
Nation with nation, land with land,
Unarmed shall live as comrades free;
In every heart and brain shall throb
The pulse of one fraternity.
Man shall love man, with heart as pure
And fervent as the young-eyed throng
Who chant their heavenly psalms before
God's face with undiscordant song.
New arts shall bloom of loftier mould
And mightier music fill the skies,
And every life shall be a song,
When all the earth is paradise.

Charles Darwin (02/12/1809 – 1882) English scientist
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
http://www.strangescience.net/darwin.htm
Norman Louis Knight (Sept 21, 1895 –1972) US author of fantasy and science fiction and chemist
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/knight_norman_l
Daphne Du Maurier, 1989English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn)
http://www.dumaurier.org/
Octavio Paz, 1914- 1998 Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/opaz.htm
J.G. Ballard, ( Nov 13,1930-2009) British novelist.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050618/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/oct/09/jg-ballard-the-glow-of-the-prophet/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/19/jg-ballard-obituary
Sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1353
http://www.reverbnation.com/joelcage
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
http://www.poemhunter.com/john-perreault/
http://www.pontine.org/
http://emulsion.tumblr.com/

History:
0419
1775- British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1928- the final volume of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/19/2013
1939 - Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/history-bill-of-rights.html
1982 - Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
http://www.space.com/16732-sally-ride-quotes-women-science.html
1993 - Branch Davidians in Waco Texas dies in fire after 51 day siege
http://carolmoore.net/waco/
1995 - Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/1995/oklahoma_city_bombing/ok.html

Bonus Poem:
The Masquerade of Time
I heard the New Year whisper, passing by,
'I am the Old Year, and did never die.

'As phenix bird, that from the sunset springs,
Next in the East replumes his wondrous wings,

'As dewdrop trembling in the morning flower,
Exhaled ere noon, returns at evening hour,

'So never lost was I, though steeple chime
Hurl out my knell—for I, behold, am Time!

'The Years but lend so many a quaint disguise
Wherein I masquerade to mortal eyes.'

Edith Matilda Thomas
http://www.poemhunter.com/edith-matilda-thomas-2/poems/

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