April30,2013 straffnotez
Steven Manning Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:17 AM
Reply-To: Steven Manning To: "manning.steven47.gmail.com" April 30
Events:
April 30 Rochester Poets &Writers Round Table Rochester Library http://www.rpl.lib.nh.us/
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/
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
April 30 Portland, ME Port Veritas . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street –– 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover2 for $5, ; special host, poet and activist Tatyana S. Brown host’s Portland Slam Team Finals Competition. This round of competition narrows the field to 5 poets who will represent Portland, ME and Port Veritas at the 2013 National Poetry Slam competition. (weekly workshop at 6:30pm), $3 or This evening will award 5 poets the chance to represent Portland, ME and Port Veritas at the 2013 National Poetry Slam; .a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543www.portveritas.com
Cominup-
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/
May 1 Washington,DC Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will conclude her year as U.S. Poet Laureate with a lecture on "Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force" at 7 p.m., Trethewey will introduce the afternoon program at 4 p.m. The award-winning poets will include Marilyn Chin, Brenda Shaughnessy, Patricia Smith, Brian Turner and Kevin Young. They will read from their own work. Free and open to the public, Both events are in the Coolidge Auditorium on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Tickets are not needed. A reception and book signing for all the featured authors will follow Trethewey’s lecture. www.loc.gov
Born:
0430
Mary II (1662 – 28 Dec1694) Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1689 -94
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp02998
Sir John Lubbock (1834 – 05/28/1913) English naturalist
http://www.authorama.com/pleasures-of-life-1.html
Juhan Liiv, Juhan Sand (1864) Estonian poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/juhan-liiv
Alice B. Toklas (1877-March 7,1967) American literary figure/ cookbook writer-
, the secretary, manager, and champion of Gertrude Stein
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/toklas.htm
Jaroslav Hašek 1883-Jan 3,1923 Czech novelist, humorist, prankster, natural storyteller, and journalistThe Good Soldier Schweik.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1339.htm
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hasek.htm
John Crowe Ransom(1888, – July 3, 1974 )American poet, critic ,essayist, magazine editor, and professor…in the 1920s when he and fellow poets Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren founded a poetry journal called The Fugitive, and held a symposium calling for the South to resist industrialization and reclaim its agricultural heritage. They became known as the Fugitive Poets.
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1937/autumn/ransom-criticism-inc/
http://www.poemhunter.com/john-crowe-ransom/poems/
from Prayer
Now God sat beaming on his burnished throne
And swept creation with appraising eye,
Finding, I fear, not all was free from blemish,
Yet keeping his magnificent composure;
But wearing certain necessary airs,
To suit with such incumbency of court,
He still at heart was quite a gentleman;
For when he saw that aged lady drooping
And wearying her bones with genuflections
For her unworthiness, he fell ashamed
To think how hard it went with holy women
To ease their poor predicaments by prayer:
There on his heaven, and heard of all the hosts,
He groaned, he made a mighty face so wry
That several seraphin forgot their harping
And scolded thus: 'O what a wicked woman,
To shrew his splendid features out of shape!'
Edmund Cooper, 1926 - 11 March 1982 UK, sci-fi author
http://www.edmundcooper.dsl.pipex.com/
Dolores Huerta (1930 – ) US activist
http://www.doloreshuerta.org/
Willie Nelson ((1933 – ) US country singer, actor, songwriter, “Night Life""Crazy""Hello Walls","Funny How Time Slips Away" singer The Red Headed Stranger and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
(1982 single 'Always On My Mind', 1984 single 'To All The Girls I've Loved Before').
http://birthday.willienelson.com/
William Baird Searles (1934-March 22,1993)US /Can science fiction author and critic.
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/searles_baird
Laurence Larry Van Cott Niven, (1938). US science fiction writer He created "hard science fiction," because of its basis in current research. Ringworld (1970),
http://www.larryniven.net/
Annie Dillard 1945- ), American author , 1975 Pulitzer Prize
http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Dillard/e/B000APWASA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1367241105&sr=8-1
http://anniedillard.blogspot.com/2007/08/reading-recommendations.html
Passed:
0430
Lucan, 39- 65 Roman poet
http://linguaspectrum.com/quotations/by_author_english.php?id=Seneca%20the%20Younger
James Montgomery ((11/04/1771 –1854) Scottish writer- poet ,hymnist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/montgomery-james
Sarah Josepha Hale (10/24/1788 –1879) New England teacher, Writer, Editor The Light of Home
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hale-sarah-josepha
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html
Edouard Manet (01/23/1831 –1883) French artist
http://www.manetedouard.org/
John Luther “Casey” Jones, -1900, US Railway engineer
died in a train wreck whenhis train plowed into the freight. His body was found near his locomotive, the brake lever in one hand, the whistle cord in the other. A black engine wiper named Wallace Saunders wrote the first ballad about the wreck
http://www.taco.com/roots/caseyjones.html
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (02/26/1839 –1919) Irish writer
http://www.iihsa.ie/mahaffy.html
Alfred Edward Housman (03/26/1849 –1936) English scholar
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/housman-e
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1334302/
SPRING MORNING
Star and coronal and bell
April underfoot renews,
And the hope of man as well
Flowers among the morning dews.
Now the old come out to look,
Winter past and winter's pains,
How the sky in pool and brook
Glitters on the grassy plains.
Easily the gentle air
Wafts the turning season on;
Things to comfort them are there,
Though 'tis true the best are gone.
Now the scorned unlucky lad
Rousing from his pillow gnawn
Mans his heart and deep and glad
Drinks the valiant air of dawn.
Half the night he longed to die,
Now are sown on hill and plain
Pleasures worth his while to try
Ere he longs to die again.
Blue the sky from east to west
Arches, and the world is wide,
Though the girl he loves the best
Rouses from another's side.
Beatrice Webb (01/02/1858 –1943) - British writer (My Apprenticeship)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUwebbB.htm
Adolph Hitler (04/20/1889 –1945) German dictator
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler.html
Alben William Barkley (11/24/1877 –1956) US Vice President (35) (1949–1953), U.S. Representative (1913–1927) and a U.S. Senator (1927–1949) Senate Majority Leader 1937 to 1947
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_22_00035.htm
Richard Farina, (Mar 8, 1937 - 1966) American writer and folk rocker
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-amp-mimi-fari%C3%B1a-mn0000850523
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Richard%20Fari%C3%B1a&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
Louis Kronenberger (12/09/1904-1980) US writer
http://www.poemhunter.com/louis-kronenberger/
Lester Bangs, (12/13/1948 – 01982)American music journalist, author, and musician -worked for Rolling Stone, Creem and The Village Voice.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3719271/
(McKinley Morganfield) Muddy Waters (04/04/1915 –1983) US blues singer, guitarist ,(Mad Love, 1950 'Rollin' Stone.'(which Rolling Stones named themselves after) 'I Just Want To Make Love To You', 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man', 'Got My Mojo Working.')
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/muddy-waters-mn0000608701
Sites:
http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Sixteenth
http://www.contutti.org/
http://www.manchesternh.gov/website/library/LibraryHome/tabid/666/Default.aspx
http://www.perthshirediary.com/index.shtml
https://www.facebook.com/nhwritersproject?ref=stream
http://www.bam.org/
http://virnow.com/
History:
0430
1642- courtier, soldier, and gentleman-poet, Richard Lovelace presented the Kentish Petition to Parliament -- a Royalist document calling for the restoration of the rights of King Charles I -- and was promptly imprisoned for it. His confinement produced "To Althea, From Prison" the famous last stanza-
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=4/30/2013
1709-The Tatler publishes Jonathan Swift’s, (1667 - 1745) A Description of the Morning
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/description-morning
1789- George Washington delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr30.html
Bonus Poem:
Canadian Poetry Online | LEME | UTL
·Home
·Search
·Poems
§Poems
§Publication Date
§Form
§Rhyme
§Collections
§Random
·Poets
§Poets
§Birth Date
§Literary Period
§Literary Movement
§Nationality
§Honours
§Random
·Timeline
§Old English 449-1066
§Middle English 1066-1485
§Early Modern English 1485-1800
o17th Century 1603-1667
oAugustans 1667-1780
oRenaissance 1485-1603
oRomantics 1780-1830
§Present-day English 1800-present
oVictorians 1833-1903
oGeorgians 1903-1920
oModerns 1920-1960
oThe Beat Generation 1950-1970
oThe Movement 1960-1980
oPostmoderns 1980-
·Map
·Calendar
·Glossary
·Criticism
·Bibliography
§African Poetry
§American Poetry
§Associations and Journals
§Australian Poetry
§Biography
§Canadian Poetry
§Caribbean Poetry
§Criticism of Poetry
§English Poetry
§Forms of Verse
§General Anthologies
§General Indexes to Poems
§Histories
§Indian Poetry
§Irish Poetry
§New Zealand Poetry
§Other Nationalities
§Prosody, Rhetoric, and Terminology
§Scottish Poetry
§Welsh Poetry
§WWW Archives
·About
§Introduction
§Copyright
§History
§Statistics
·Contact
You are here
Home
Sonnet
1Happy is he, who, like the Ithacan sage
2Or the brave hero of the golden fleece,
3Having far travelled, finds his troubles cease,
4Amidst his own, in ripe-experienced age.
5When shall I turn again to life's first page?
6From the world's tumult when obtain release?
7And greet the village and the home of Peace
8Where sweet affections quell each passion's rage?
9Dearer to me that home my grandsires built,
10Than Roman palaces with pillars brave,
11Dearer those roofs of slate than marble gilt,
12Dearer my Loire than Tiber's sacred wave,
13Dearer my Lyré than the Palatine,
14And oh how dear, thou climate Angevine!
Toru Dutt, (1856 - 1877)
Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880)
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
This is my personal inspirational book of poetry. It contains many poems written for family, friends, and relevant life situations. Hopefully you will find some that will encourage and inpsire you in whatever arena you are found in your circle of l
Share
Save
