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Strafford Notes 21 April, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:39:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Breezy poetry for a breezy spring day...

April 21
Events:
April 21 Exeter ,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, but when all’s said and done is still thought of as a life-long optimist/humanist. You might think of Roy as channeling the voice of Amy Goodman or Rachel Maddow but using the comic vehicle of the late George Carlin. Elm St Exeter
“To Be a Liberal” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qgiNPVpSM
April 21 Portsmouth Riverrunbooks - 5:00 pm celebrate national poetry month with a reading featuring poets Gibson Fay-Leblanc And Christopher Locke. http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
April 22 Earth Day Farmington Goodwin Library Writer’s And Poet’s Project 6 PM In honor of Earth Day the theme will be about nature, spring, the Earth, and new found reflection or renewal. http://farmingtonnhpoetandwriterproject.blogspot.com/
April 22, Wolfeboro Public Library, 6:30 pm. Featured Readers: Barbara Bald & Charlotte Cox in "Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward," plus open mike.
April 23 Franconia World Book Night The Frost Place will distribute free books as a part of World Book Night. We are proud be a part of the movement helping to spread the love of reading, person to person, in our local community. http://frostplace.org/
April 23 Portsmouth - Shakespeare’s birthday http://7stagesshakes.wordpress.com/programs/shakespeares-day/
April 24Portsmouth, 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 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 .
April 24 Washington DC, LOC Literary Birthday Celebration: Robert Penn Warren ; Poet Maurice Manning and author Alan Cheuse will celebrate the birthday of American writer Robert Penn Warren by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. This event is free and open to the public, and will feature a display from the Library’s collections ;at 12:00 Noon ,Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building ,(202) 707-5394 http://www.loc.gov/index.html
April 25 Newmarket Crackskulls Open Mic rte 108 Newmarket , sign-ups start at 7 follwing open mic ,a feature, Hosted by Jenn Monroe 7-8:30pm 659-8181www.thepoetgirl.com!

Born:
0421

Ulrich von Hutten (1488- Aug 29,1523 ) German Poet Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum [letters of an Obscure Man]
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Collier%27s_New_Encyclopedia_(1921)/Hutten,_Ulrich_von
Reginald Heber, 1783-3 April 1826, poet, Bishop of Calcutta, http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/heber-reginald
Robert M. T. Hunter, 1809-July 18, 1887, Civil War politician, Leader of the Confederacy ; major spokesman of the Democratic party's states rights faction.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Josh Billings Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818(?)- 1885), U.S., humorist, auctioneer, and realtor
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Billings-Classic-Reprint/dp/B0095A5AVA/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366533180&sr=1-10&keywords=billings+henry
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36556/36556-h/36556-h.htm
Charlotte Bronte (1816-March31,1855), Currer Ellis, English novelist author of Jane Eyre
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bront%C3%AB-charlotte
http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre/
Hippolyte Taine (1828 – 03/05/1893) French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy) Origines de la France Contemporaine
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=3901&Itemid=28
John Muir (1838 – 12/24/1914) Scottish/American naturalist From STEEP TRAILS
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/about/
http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdmuir.htm
Charles Follen Adams (1842- March 8, 1918) US dialect poet Leedle Yawcob Strauss
http://www.bartleby.com/360/9/100.html
Paul Dresser (1857- Jan 30,1906 ) US Songwriter My Gal Sal
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C340
Rollo May (1909 – 10/22/1994) US psychologist Love and Will
http://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/rollo-may.html
Björn Landström 1907- January 7,2002 Finnish writer, illustrator, artist, naval specialist, traveler, and yachtsman
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lands.htm
Sir John Mortimer (1923 –Jan 16,2009 ) English barrister, writer Rumpole of the Bailey
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607876/
Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – ) English royalty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/queen_elizabeth_ii
Ernie Maresca, 1939 - singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ernie-maresca-mn0000203916
CHILD OF CLAY

Into the darkness he was sent by parents'
Who were ignorant hm, hm
Tied down to his mother's strings
Unable to be anything hm, hm
Puzzled by the things he hears
The father thinking work comes first
Ain't got the time to quench a thirst
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Once he was a child, a beautiful child
A child of clay shaped and molded
Into what he is today
But who is to blame for this child of clay

Going out into the street at night
The answers he may meet hm hm
With sick and twisted minds
He shares the searching questions
His heart bears hm hm
And from the dregs
The answers find their way into his supple mind
In time the planted seeds will grow
Into a twisted vine below
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

And now his aimless days begin
To drift into sordid sin hm, hm
And soon his dislike turns to hate
As the stamp of life seals his fate hm, hm
and so the night conceals his name
And the days sleep off his shame
Deprived of love and wrought by fear
A feeling that the end is near
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

(As performed by Jimmie Rodgers
/co-written with Jimmy Curtiss).
Iggy Pop (1947 – ) US singer
http://iggypop.org/
Paul Davis (1948- April 22, 2008) US Singer/Songwriter I Go Crazy
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-davis-mn0000019083
Bob Varsha (04/21/1951 – ) US sports commentator
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/Bob_Varsha/
Andie MacDowell (1958 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000510/

Passed:
0421
Jean Racine (12/22/1639 –1699) Playwright, poet, master of the classical French tragedy
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Racine-J.html
David Mallet, ( c.1700 -1765), Scot poet
http://scotspoets.cath.vt.edu/select.php?select=Mallet._David
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain (11/30/1835 –1910) -US writer, journalist, & humorist
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/21/2013
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/twain-mark
Marie Corelli (05/01/1855 –1924) English writer A Romance of Two Worlds
http://www.violetbooks.com/corelli.html
Robert Bridges (10/23/1844 -1930) English writer / poet laureate(1913-) Prometheus the Firegiver
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bridges-robert
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-bridges
Sonnet: Spring

While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry
And blackening east that so embitters March,
Well-housed must watch grey fields and meadows parch,
And driven dust and withering snowflake fly;
Already in glimpses of the tarnish'd sky
The sun is warm and beckons to the larch,
And where the covert hazels interarch
Their tassell'd twigs, fair beds of primrose lie.
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid
A million buds but stay their blossoming;
And trustful birds have built their nests amid
The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing
Till one soft shower from the south shall bid,
And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of spring.

John Maynard Keynes (06/05/1883 –1946) US mathematician, economist
http://www.maynardkeynes.org/
Aldo Leopold (01/11/1887 –1948) US conservationist A Sand County Almanac
http://www.aldoleopold.org/AldoLeopold/leopold_bio.shtml
Sir Edward Appleton (09/06/1892 –1965) English physicist ,Nobel 1947
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1947/appleton-bio.html
Sohrab Sepehri, 1928- 1980 Persian poet and painter
http://www.easypersian.com/samples/sepehri-neshani/
Salah Jaheen, 1930- 1986 Egyptian poet and cartoonist
http://www.mamado21.i8.com/photo3.html
Nina Simone (02/21/1933 –2003) US singer ,The High Priestess of Soul
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nina-simone-mn0000411761

Sites:
http://www.craigwerth.com/images/press_parts/Craig_Werth_onepage2012sm-2.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/loc/events/index.php
http://naishinnoumouko.tripod.com/id2.html
http://playwrightsfoundation.blogspot.com/
http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/666
http://www.poets.org/
http://gladelys.wordpress.com/

History:
0421
1785- Robert Burns composes the second "Epistle to J. Lapraik"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/burns-robert
1819- John Keats completes "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/la-belle-dame-sans-merci
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
http://performingsongwriter.com/heartbreak-hotel/
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-04-21/news/9704210073_1_spanish-satellite-lipstick-sized-capsules-pegasus-rocket

Bonus Poem:

Portable Demons
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
1I found the ghost of Dorothy Parker
2in an old movie house in Times Square
3I approached her with condolences
4and slowly coerced her out of there
5I walked her to a warm home
6and fed her food a mother would
7I laid her in a fresh made bed
8and sat by her side while she slept
9through broken dreams
10she spoke of carefree moments
11with men she'd never met
12she threw her arms in the air
13at the irony of dying all her life
14and still never having left
15I held her in my shaky arms
16knowing that if she woke to find me
17cradling her like a baby
18she'd cackle at our weakness
19and push me bitterly away
20I awoke to the ghost of Dorothy Parker
21eating Corn Flakes in my backyard
22the morning paper ripped to shreds
23by her cutting retorts
24about the hapless writing in print today
25and I knew
26she was here to stay
Alexandra Leggat

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