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Strafford Notes 26 April, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013 9:19:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Maybe see you at Apotheca tonight.....

April 26
Events:
April 26 Goffstown open poetry reading held 7 pm. at Apotheca, a tea shop in the village area of Goffstown. http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/ http://www.apothecaonline.com/
April 26, Canterbury: Wind in the Timothy Poetry Fest will feature Maren Tirabassi, Richard Cambridge, Lynn Chong, and John-Michael Albert. Open mike readers will be interspersed between the featured poets. Bring one poem to read at the open mike. At 6:45 p.m., Elkins Library. For more information, contact Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman by phone (603) 783-4719 or by email jdlaufman.comcast.net.
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
April 26-27 Newburyport Mass. Newburyport Literary Festival, A Project of the Newburyport Literary Association featuring readings of new works by four members of Newburyport's distinguished Powow River Poets—Michael Cantor, David Davis, Rhina Espaillat and Don Kimball. Book signing will follow the readings– PO Box 268 · Newburyport, MA 01950 – 978-465-1257
http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/html/schedule_of_events.html

These Just In:
April 27 Canaan NH Strange Terrain: How Not To Get Poetry & Let It Get You Instead At 1 pm ;Poet Alice Fogel takes you through seven simple steps, and one hard one, toward understanding and appreciating more elements of poetry than you ever thought you could. In the end you'll see that you already knew them all along. This workshop is your quick, self-help program for "getting" poems. Fogel helps you develop your own confident relationship with poetry's shapes, words, images, sounds, emotions, mysteries, and more. 523-9650 : Canaan Town Library, 1173 US Rte 4, Canaan
April 30 Amherst NH 7PM Spring Poets: Barbara Allen to Blackbird. Poet/ singer/songwriter John Perrault brings his guitar to sing and recite a few of the early ballads, plus a line of lyrics from Burns to Wordsworth, Keats to Frost, Dickinson to Dylan, and Mary Oliver to Lennon & McCartney, in a salute to the romantic tradition. Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst Contact: Ruslyn Vear 673-2288 x 213

Born:
0426
Marcus Aurelius [Antoninus] (121 AD; d.180 AD) Roman philosopher, humane emperor, and author
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2680/2680-h/2680-h.htm
David Hume (1711- 25 August 1776), Scottish philosopher and historian
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4705/4705-h/4705-h.htm
John Jean-Jacques James Audubon (1785 – January 27, 1851French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8jjau10h.htm
Alice Cary ( 1820 – Feb 12, 1871) Amer. Poet , Fiction Writer; Political Activist, sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary
MULBERRY HILL
H, sweet was the eve when I came from the mill,
Adown the green windings of Mulberry hill:
My heart like a bird with his throat all in tune,
That sings in the beautiful bosom of June.

For there, at her spinning, beneath a broad tree,
By a rivulet shining and blue as the sea,
I first saw my Mary--her tiny feet bare,
And the buds of the sumach among her black hair.

They called me a bold enough youth, and I would
Have kept the name honestly earned, if I could;
But somehow, the song I had whistled was hushed,
And, spite of my manhood, I felt that I blushed.

I would tell you, but words cannot paint my delight,
When she gave the red buds for a garland of white,
When her cheeks with soft blushes--but no, 't is in vain!
Enough that I loved, and she loved me again.

Three summers have come and gone by with their charms,
And a cherub of purity smiles in my arms,
With lips like the rosebud and locks softly light
As the flax which my Mary was spinning that night.

And in the dark shadows of Mulberry hill,
By the grass--covered road where I came from the mill,
And the rivulet shining and blue as the sea,
My Mary lies sleeping beneath the broad tree.
"Mulberry Hill" is reprinted from Early and late poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary. Alice Cary. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887.
http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/cary_alice.html
Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834 – 03/06/1867) US writer humorist
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/cb.htm
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 – August 28, 1903) American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/alad:.FIELD(AUTHOR+.od1(+olmsted,+frederick+law,+landscape+architect+))
Erminnie Adelle Platt Smith (1836- June 9, 1886) US, ethnologist (Iroquois-English Dictionary)
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-March 7, 1931) Finnish artist,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gallen.htm
Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett] (1886 – 12/22/1939) "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/ma-rainey-pioneer-who-nurtured-blues
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 04/29/1951) Austrian-English philosopher “Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”[making your source feel very very very wise…]

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/ludwig_wittgenstein.html#ERx4frfebq8O3cjD.99
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/wittgenstein.html
http://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Wittgenstein/e/B000APXRL4
Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-0311/1980), US creator of the Betsy-Tacy series of children's books
Anita Loos (1893 – 08/18/1981) US screenwriter 1925 novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/26/2013
Vicente Aleixandre (1898-Dec.14, 1984) Spanish poet, Nobel Prize for Lit 1977 Footprint On The Sand
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/aleixan.htm
Anne Fried (1903-Dec.11,1998) Austrian- United States- Fin, novelist, essayist, and critic
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/afried.htm
A[braham] H[enry] Raskin (1911-Dec.1993), Canadian and long-time New York Times labor and industrial relations writer
A[lfred] E[lton] Van Vogt (1912 - Jan 26, 2000) Can-Amer science fiction writer (Cosmic Encounter)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888202/
http://www.enter.net/~torve/articles/vanvogt/vanvogt1.html
http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/A.%20E._van%20Vogt.html
Bernard Malamud (1914 – 03/18/1986) US writer ,Pulitizer 1967)
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/natural/themes.html
Horace Leonard Gold (1914 –Feb. 21, 1996) , Sci-Fi writer/editor
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gold_h_l
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31892/31892-h/31892-h.htm
Edward Shepherd Mead (1914 – 08/15/1994) US writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574926/
http://shepherdmead.com/Bio.html
Morris L West (1916-Oct 9,99) Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mlwest.htm
J Micheal McCloskey 1934- environmentalist, Sierra Club chairman
http://www.motherlode.sierraclub.org/Yolano/Anouncements/06_jan_19_Michael_McCloskey_info.pdf
Duane Eddy 1938- US guitarist (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/duane-eddy-mn0000171637
Gary Wright 1943 - U S, singer/keyboardist (Dream Weaver, Spooky Tooth-Love Is Alive)
http://www.thedreamweaver.com/

Passed:
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Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 –1731) Eng Journalist , & Soldier
http://www.online-literature.com/defoe/
John Wilkes Booth (May 19,1838 -1865) US actor,& assassin
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/12/five-surprising-facts-about-the-booth-brothers.html
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1910 Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903)
http://nobel-prize-winners.sciencedaily.com/l/65/Bj-rnstjerne-Bj-rnson
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Bj%26oslash%3Brnson%2C%20Bj%26oslash%3Brnstjerne%2C%201832-1910
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (May 19,1890- 19160 ) Portuguese Poet Dispersão
http://poesiaseprosas.no.sapo.pt/mario_sa_carneiro/poetas_mariosacarneiro_caranguejola01.htm

from Manicure

I stand...
And I fall flat!
Deep down and even more excessively, mirrors reflect
Everything ashimmer in the air,
With an even subtler beauty shining through...
— O dream unfettered, O errant moonlight,
I’ll never be able to sing in verse,
As I’ve yearned till I’ve come molten Gold,
All that Pure,
That unattainable Beauty!
I roll down myself like a flight of stairs...
I neglect my hands,
I forget all about lacquering my nails...
And, gnashing my teeth, with distant eyes,
Hatless, like a man possessed,
I make my stand!

I run down the street, leaping and shouting.
http://sa-carneiro.blogspot.com/

Edwin John Dove Pratt 1882-1964 Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike) From Behind the Log
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/pratt/poem6.htm
Hermann Emanuel John Knittel (March 24, 1891 - April 26, 1970 Swiss writer
http://www.knittel.ch/
Paul Antschel Celan, (Nov 23,1920-70) Romanian- French Poet, translator, essayist, and lecturer, influenced by French Surrealism and Symbolism.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/celan.htm
Robert Garioch (May 9,1909-1981) Scots dialect poet
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/robert-garioch
Count Basie (08/21/1904 –/1984) US bandleader
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/count-basie-mn0000127044
Max Nicholson, (July 12,1904-2003) Irish environmentalist
http://www.maxnicholson.com/
Hubert Selby Jr. (July 23,1928-2004 ) American author Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/hubert-selby-jr/
Douglas Stewart Chaffee (Jan. 24, 1936 –2011) US futurist artist
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Doug_Chaffee
http://www.chaffeestudios.com/

Sites:
http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/html/schedule_of_events.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42553/42553-h/42553-h.htm
http://readingmother.blogspot.com/
http://bostonreview.net/NPM2013/index.php
http://wnpt.org/productions/fugitives/index.html
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/poco/heart+of+the+night_20560626.html

History:
0426
1925 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
http://www.amazon.com/So-Big-P-S-Edna-Ferber/dp/0061859982

1937 Guernica was bombed by the Nazis
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/guernica.htm

Bonus Poem:

Lighthouse in the Night

The sky a black sphere,
the sea a black disk.

The lighthouse opens
its solar fan on the coast.

Spinning endlessly at night,
whom is it searching for

when the mortal heart
looks for me in the chest?

Look at the black rock
where it is nailed down.

A crow digs endlessly
but no longer bleeds.

by Alfonsina Storni
http://www.argentinaindependent.com/top-story/alfonsina-storni-the-poetess-that-broke-from-the-pack/
http://allpoetry.com/Alfonsina_Storni

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