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Strafford Notes 24 April, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:11:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Warm weather....YES!!!!

April 24
Events:
April 24 Portsmouth, 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 Guitar in hand, John Perrault urges the lyric tradition back into song in this retrospective of the American and English lyric. In addition to selected ballads, the presentation includes works by Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Dunbar, Hughes, Frost & Dylan. 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 . Atlantic Media Productions may be accessed at http://atlanticmediaproductions.com/ . This program will be video recorded by Atlantic Media Productions, and audience members can expect to be visually incorporated in the filming process. Portsmouth Public Library, http://www.cityofportsmouth.com/library/
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

Born:
0424

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 6 Dec 1882) English Victorian novelist. Barchester Towers (1857)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1932
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=trollope%2C%20anthony%2C%201815-1882

Robert Michael Ballantyne Comus- (1825-1894) -Scottish writer for boys
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ballant.htm

Carl Felix Tandem (Friedrich Georg) Spitteler (1845-1924) Swiss poet; Nobel Prize for Literature1919 for his masterpiece, Olympian Spring
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/spittele.htm

Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 09/15/1989) US writer ;three-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist, and the first U.S. poet laureate ; All the King's Men (1946)
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Penn-Warren/e/B000APVIJC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1366795522&sr=8-1
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4868/the-art-of-fiction-no-18-robert-penn-warren
from LULLABY: SMILE IN SLEEP
Dream that sleep is a sunlit meadow
Drowsy with a dream of bees
Threading sun, and a shadow
Where you may lie lulled by their sunlit industries.
Let the murmurous bees of sleep
Tread down honey in the honeycomb.
Heart-deep now, your dream will keep
Sweet in that deep comb for time to come.
Dream the sweetness coming on.
Dream, sweet son.
Sleep on.
What if angry vectors veer
Around your sleeping head, and form?
There's never need to fear
Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
For now you dream Reality.
Matter groans to touch your hand.
Matter lifts now like the sea
Toward that strong moon that is your dream's command.
Dream the power coming on.
Dream, strong son.
Sleep on.
Sue Taylor Grafton (1940 – ) US writer -detective novels
http://www.amazon.com/Sue-Grafton/e/B000APENIA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1366794456&sr=8-1
Barbra Streisand, 1942- , singer, actress, 1974 US No.1 & UK No.31 single 'The Way We Were', 1980 UK & US No.1 single 'Woman In Love' plus over 10 other UK Top 40 singles and 4 other US No.1's).
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/barbra-streisand-mn0000855531

Kelly Clarkson, 1982, singer, (2002 US No.1 single 'A Moment Like This')
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kelly-clarkson-mn0000086927

Passed:
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Willa Sibert Cather (Dec 7, 1873 - 1947) American author -novels O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922),
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/manuscripts/family/cather.htm

Lucy Maud Montgomery (11/30/1874 –1942) Canadian writer (Anne of the Green Gables) Night
http://www.uxbridge.com/people/maud.html

Peter Ham, April7,1947 -1975, British singer, songwriter a founder member of Badfinger ;co-wrote 'Without You', with band mate Tom Evans ;hit for Harry Nilson and Mariah Carey.
from "Without You"
No I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile, but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrow
When I had you there but then I let you go
And now it's only fair that I should let you know
What you should know

Well, I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile, but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows

I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give anymore
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't give
I can't give anymore

http://www.lyrics007.com/Mariah%20Carey%20Lyrics/Without%20You%20Lyrics.html
http://www.peteham.net/

Leslie Clark Stevens III (February 3, 1924 –1998) US writer /film producer; creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and director of the cult horror film Incubus (1966), starring William Shatner. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, Est: The Steersman Handbook (1970).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828562/

Sites:
http://www.orbital.com/SpaceLaunch/Antares/
http://robertfrostfarm.org/
http://www.julietmarine.com/
http://www.scholastic.com/readeveryday/
http://www.frostfriends.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2293/2293-h/2293-h.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/217/

History:
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1800 -The Library of Congress was established on this day
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

1891 - Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was published.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/24/2013

Bonus Poem:
Song of the Rain
Night,
And the yellow pleasure of candle-light...
Old brown books and the kind fine face of the clock
Fogged in the veils of the fire—its cuddling tock.
The cat,
Greening her eyes on the flame-litten mat;
Wickedly wakeful she yawns at the rain
Bending the roses over the pane,
And a bird in my heart begins to sing
Over and over the same sweet thing--
Safe in the house with my boyhood's love,
And our children asleep in the attic above.
/Hugh McCrae

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