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Strafford Notes 25 April, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:40:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I hope your day has been as good as mine.....

April 25
Events:
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!
April 25 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)
April 25 Wolfeboro, - 7-9pm - The Country Bookseller, Durgin Stables, N. Main St., Wolfeboro - Poets in the Attic - open mike (poetsintheattic.gmail.com
or 539-4472)
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/
Coming-up!
April 30, Keene NH Spring Oracles 2013,at 7:30 p.m., Paradise Lost, Book IV, Panel Discussion, “Satan Enters Eden” B. Eugene McCarthy, Michael Wakefield, Rodger Martin of The Milton Ensemble, Media Arts Center television studio, Keene State College, (live recording, limited seating) http://www.keene.edu/campus/
May 1, Keene NH Spring Oracles 2013,at 7:30 p.m., Paradise Lost, Book IV, “Satan Enters Eden” The Milton Ensemble, Media Arts Center television studio, Keene State College, (live recording, limited seating) http://www.keene.edu/campus/

Born:
0425
Lord Oliver Cromwell (1599– 09/03/1658)English Lord Protector
http://www.olivercromwell.org/
Walter Ramal De La Mare (1873-1956), English poet, essayist, novelist, and accountant
The Song Of Shadows
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=De%20la%20Mare%2C%20Walter%2C%201873-1956
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/delamare.htm
Murray Fletcher Pratt(1897–June 11,1956) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history
http://www.amazon.com/Fletcher-Pratt/e/B001IQZBPE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
William J. Brennan, Jr.( 1906 – 07/24/1997)US Supreme Court
http://www.oyez.org/justices/william_j_brennan_jr
Edward R. Murrow (1908 – 04/27/1965)US broadcast journalist newscaster (Person to Person)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/edward-r-murrow/this-reporter/513/
Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. (1914-March 6, 1948 ) American writer (Raintree County)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lockrid.htm
Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 06/15/1996) US singer
http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/
Ted Kooser 1939- US. Poet; U.S. poet laureate from 2004 to 2006
http://www.tedkooser.net/
http://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/a-life-in-poetry-ted-kooser/view-all
A Birthday Poem

Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
in a black stanchion of trees,
waiting for someone to come
with his bucket
for the foamy white light,
and then a long day in the pasture.
I too spend my days grazing,
feasting on every green moment
till darkness calls,
and with the others
I walk away into the night,
swinging the little tin bell
of my name.
Quentin S. Crisp 1972- British writer and publisher of supernatural fiction
http://my.opera.com/quentinscrisp/blog/

Passed:
0425
William Cowper (11/15/1731 –1800) English writer lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns) - "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/cowper-william
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/retired-cat
Anna Sewell (03/30/1820) -1878) English writer (Black Beauty)
http://sewell.thefreelibrary.com/
Ellen K S Key (12/11/1849 –1926) Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/ellen-karolina-sofia-key
Paul Kornfeld (Dec 11,1849-1942) Ger writer
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Kornfeld/e/B001K1HBX2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_7?qid=1366885619&sr=1-7
Strickland Gillilan (1869–1954) American poet and humorist
http://www.gillilandtrails.org/documents/bios/bio_StricklandG.pdf
http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=352
Donald Davidson (Aug8, 1893-1968) Agrarian, Southern American poet / author
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=357
from Lee in the Mountains

Why did my father write? I know he saw
History clutched as a wraith out of blowing mist
Where tongues are loud, and a glut of little souls
Laps at the too much blood and the burning house.
He would have his say, but I shall not have mine.
What I do is only a son's devoir
To a lost father. Let him only speak.
The rest must pass to men who never knew
(But on a written page) the strike of armies,
And never heard the long Confederate cry
Charge through the muzzling smoke or saw the bright
Eyes of the beardless boys go up to death.
It is Robert Lee who writes with his father's hand——
The rest must go unsaid and the lips be locked.

http://wnpt.org/productions/fugitives/thepoems_davidson.html
Clifford D[onald] Simak Aug 3 ,1904 -1988 US sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27013/27013-h/27013-h.htm
Wright Morris, Jan 6,1910-1998 American writer
http://www.wrightmorris.org/
Thom Gunn, (August 29, 1929 - 2004) British poet
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/109
Alan Sillitoe (4 March 1928 –2010) English writer The Loneliness Of Long-Distance Runner (1959)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sillitoe.htm

Sites:
http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Sixteenth
http://www.crossingbrooklynferry.com/
http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1958.html
http://www.middlebury.edu/blwc
http://www.riptonvt.org/
http://www.oldfirstchurchbenn.org/visiting.html

History:
0425
1867 -Mark Twain’s first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, was published
http://archive.org/stream/celebratedjumpin00twai#page/n5/mode/2up

1898 - William S. Porter — the drug store clerk, cowboy, fugitive, bank teller, cartoonist and future "O. Henry" — began a five-year prison sentence for embezzlement
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/25/2013

Bonus Poem:
Talisman

it is written
the act of writing is
holy words are
sacred and your breath
brings out the
god in them
i write these words
quickly repeat them
softly to myself
this talisman for you
fold this prayer
around your neck fortify
your back with these
whispers
may you walk ever
loved and in love
know the sun
for warmth the moon
for direction
may these words always
remind you your breath
is sacred words
bring out the god
in you

Suheir Hammad
http://www.thescreamonline.com/poetry/poetry2-1/hammad/

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