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Strafford Notes 23 April, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:09:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

When will spring come???

April 23
World Book Night
http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/books/2013 http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/

Events:
APRIL 23 PORTSMOUTH ,- 7:00 PM Riverrunbookstore The Poet of Avon: A panel discussion on Shakespeare's less-known poetry Seven Stages Shakespeare Company will hold a panel discussion on some of the bard's less-known works of poetry. There will be readings of some of these works, and an open dialogue, guided by a panel of experts, on the subject. Panelists include Dr. David Richman of UNH, Portsmouth Poet Laureate John-Michael Albert, and Hope Jordan, the first official poetry slam master in New Hampshire. http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
April 23 Portland (. Slam Team Semi Finals Round #2 with Musical Guests: Immense Porpoise . Bull Feeney’s. 375 Fore Street, 7:30pm (weekly workshop at 6:30pm), $3 or 2 for $5, 18+ (unless accompanied by adult) . 8:30) . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street Portland Enjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543 www.portveritas.com
April 23 Henniker. At 6:30 p.m poets Martha Andrews Donovan, Kathleen Fagley, Maura MacNeil and Matt Miller will give a public reading; in the New England College Art Gallery on 39 Main Street http://www.nec.edu/
April 23 Plainwell, MI Ransom District Library at 7:00 pm ; reading by Poet Traci Brimhall Burchfield Room http://www.ransomlibrary.org/ransom/ http://www.tracibrimhall.com/
This Just In:
Manchester– 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester –SLAM FREE OR DIE presents an Open Mic & feature by Marty McConnell! (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)
Saturday:
April 27 Manchester - Poetry Society of NH Quarterly Meeting, 11am-1pm Manchester Public Library Bring a poem or two to read during the Open Mic portion from 11am-12pm. Then, at noon, we have a huge treat: our own David Killam. You know him as a poet, but did you know he is also a sought after musician? We’ve tuned up the piano and are ready to go. As a tribute to the memory of PSNH Member Cote Laramie, David, along with two young musicians Angel Monroe and Tristan Smith, will present, “Pulse, Poetry and Piano.” Refreshments to follow.
Born:
0423
William Shakespeare,( 1564 - 23 April, 1616) ,English poet and playwright of the Elizabethan and early Jacobin periods
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/shakespe.htm
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/shakespeare-william
James Buchanan (1791 – 06/01/1868) US President (15)
http://millercenter.org/president/buchanan
Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] (1813-6/3/61) US Senator (Lincoln debates)
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000457
Edwin Markham (1852-1940) US poet , Poet Laureate of Oregon from1923 to 1931 , http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/689
Max Planck (1858 – 10/04/1947) German physicist
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Planck.html
Talbot Mundy (1879-August 5,1940) Brit Fantasy Novelist
http://community-2.webtv.net/drhermes/mundy/
Vladimir Sirin Nabokov (1899-July 2,1977) Russian -American novelist, poet, scholar, translator, and butterfly collector
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nabokov.htm
Halldór Kiljan Laxness Guðjónsson (1902-Feb.1, 1998) Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize /Lit ‘55
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/laxness.htm
Margaret Avison ( 1918 – July 31, 2007) Canadian poet

A Small Music on a Spring Morning

Why did they put the
blue and white live
balloons out with the trash
this morning just because
the party’s over — when they
thub on the cardboard still
roundly, and lift on their leashes?

Having balloons about on an
overcast morning is
celebration. O in the grey
nothing distracts from the bobbling
lightsomeness of a drift of
all-alone trembling to be touched
balloons.
http://jacketmagazine.com/29/avison.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-avison
Avram Davidson (1923-May 9,1993) American sci-fi writer
http://www.avramdavidson.org/
James Kirkup (1923-May 10,2009) English poet, translator and travel writer. (African in Greenland) The Day Ahead
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kirkup_james
Art Hoppe (1925 – 02/01/2000) US columnist (SF Chronicle
http://www.starkrealities.com/hoppe.html
J[ames] P[atrick]Donleavy (1926 – ) US/ Irish novelist
http://www.jpdonleavycompendium.org/
Shirley Temple Black (1928 – ) US film / television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and politician
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/100import/black.html
Passed:
0423
William Shakespeare (04/23/1564 –1616) English writer- Playwright ,poet
http://www.quartos.org/
http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/
Miguel de Cervantes (09/29/1547 –1616) Spanish writer playwright, poet
http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/
Henry Vaughan (1622?-1695)Welsh physician/ poet
http://theotherpages.org/poems/vaughan1.html#7
Thomas Tickell (December 17 ,1685-1740) Eng poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/tickell-thomas
William Wordsworth, 7 April 1770- 1850 Eng. Stamp Distributor / poet, Poet Laureate 1843
“BROOK! WHOSE SOCIETY THE POET SEEKS"

BROOK! whose society the Poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious Painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,
And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks;
If wish were mine some type of thee to view,
Thee, and not thee thyself, I would not do
Like Grecian Artists, give thee human cheeks,
Channels for tears; no Naiad should'st thou be,--
Have
neither limbs, feet, feathers, joints nor hairs: 10
It seems the Eternal Soul is clothed in thee
With purer robes than those of flesh and blood,
And hath bestowed on thee a safer good;
Unwearied joy, and life without its cares.

http://www.bartleby.com/people/WordswthW.html

Rupert Brooke (August 3,1887-1915) Eng traveler, poet ,soldier 1914 and Other Poems
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/brooke-rupert
Sir Stirling C. Moss (September 17,1929- 1962) Brit.auto racer
http://www.grandprixhistory.org/moss_bio.htm
Otto Preminger (12/05/1906 -1986) Austrian director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695937/

Sites:
http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/events
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/silverman/poe/frame.html
https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraiser/29549
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42501/42501-h/42501-h.htm
http://www.todayinliterature.com/newsletters.asp

Bonus Poem:
HAVISHAM
MEAN TIME (1998)

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it
so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes,
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;
the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words.
Some nights better, the lost body over me,
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear
then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s

hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting
in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake.
Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.
Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.
carol ann duffy
http://mural.uv.es/tasenfe/duffy
http://www.carolannduffy.co.uk/

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