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Strafford Notes 1 May, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:42:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

It's May, its May, the merry month of May!"
-Camelot...Rogers and Hammerstein

Events:
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
May 1 Portsmouth, 7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth – Portsmouth Poetry Hoot – Features Poet Laureates' Passing of the Quill, John-Michael Albert and Kimberly Cloutier Green will read followed by open mike (772-4345, http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm ). , 738 Islington St., Portsmouth - Hoots sponsored by Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program (info.pplp.org) http://www.PPLP.org/hootnight.htm) http://seacoastwritersassociation.org/default.aspx
May 1 Durham (every Wednesday night) The Freedom Cafe open mic--music and poetry ;7-10 pm. 10 Mill Rd Durham, NH 03824 https://www.facebook.com/TheFreedomCafeatUNH Sean.freedomcafenetwork.org.
Born:
0501
Joseph Addison 1672 – 06/17/1719) English writer essayist and politician / was an essayist for The Tatler, a newspaper that covered London's political and social elite. When The Tatler ceased production in 1711, Steele and Addison formed The Spectator, with the intent to "enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality."
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/addison-joseph
Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764 – September 3, 1820) British-born American neoclassical architect designed the United States Capitol, & the Baltimore Basilica, the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may01.html
Arthur Wellesley (1769 – 09/14/1852) Duke of Wellington, English army commander, PM (21)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRwellington.htm
James Clarence Mangan 1803-June 20,1849) Irish Poet O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire
http://www.bartleby.com/101/665.html
A SONG

When the roses blow,
Man looks out for brighter hours ;
When the roses glow,
Hope relights her lampless bowers.
Much that seemed, in winter gloom,
Dark with heavy woe,
Wears a gladsome hue and bloom
When the roses blow.
When the roses blow ;
Wears a gladsome hue and bloom
When the roses blow !
When the roses blow.

Love that slept shall wake anew ;
Merrier blood shall flow
Through the springald's veins of blue.
And if sorrow wrang the heart.
Even that shall go:
Pain and mourning must depart
When the roses blow.
When the roses blow;
Pain and mourning must depart
When the roses blow !

When the roses blow,
Look to heaven, my fainting soul :
There, in stainless show.
Spreads the veil that hides thy goal.
Not while winter breathes his blight.
Burst thy bonds below :
Let the earth look proud and bright,
Let the roses blow,
Let the roses blow.
O let earth look proud and bright.
Let the roses blow !

http://archive.org/stream/cu31924013521194/cu31924013521194_djvu.txt

José Amador de los Ríos y Serrano (1818 – 17 Feb 1878) Spanish intellectual,- historian and archaeologist of art and literature.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1350-amador-de-los-rios-jose
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (July 1837- Nov 1930) Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker ,prominent labor leader(cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World) and community organizer.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=552
http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/mary-harris-mother-jones/
Calamity Martha Jane Cannary-Burke (1852- Aug1,1903 ) American frontierswoman, and professional scout / performer Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/490/490.txt
Marie Mackay Corelli (1855 – 04/21/1924) English writer
http://www.amazon.com/Marie-Corelli/e/B001HQ39D6
Harry Leon Wilson (1867 28-Jun-1939) US Novelist Ruggles of Red Gap
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Wilson%2C%20Harry%20Leon%2C%201867-1939
Anna Marie Jarvis (1864, Nov24, 1948), founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the US .
http://www.wvculture.org/history/thisdayinwvhistory/0508.html
Charles K. Harris (1865- April22 1930) US Songwriter After The Ball
http://archive.org/stream/howtowritepopula00harriala#page/n5/mode/2up
http://www.onread.com/book/The-barker-314936/
http://parlorsongs.com/bios/ckharris/ckharris.php
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (1881 –April10,1955 ). French philosopher /ordained to the Jesuit order, received a doctorate in paleontology from the Sorbonne Phenomenon of Man (1955)
http://www.teilharddechardin.org/biography.html
Sterling Allen Brown ,1901-Jan.17,1989), African-American Poet & Teacher -critic, essayist, and "Opportunity" magazine columnist STRONG MEN
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cal/toc/cal21.4.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sterling-a-brown
Antal Szerb 1901-January 30, 1945. Hungarian novelist, critic, essayist, and translator
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/szerb.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/jul/28/fiction.reviews1
Giovanni Guareschi (1908-July22,1968 ) Italian writer, journalist, humorist, and novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/guaresch.htm
http://www.mondoguareschi.com/
Niccolo Tucci (1908-Dec10,1999) Swiss autobiographical fiction writer He wrote stories for The New Yorker magazine, and three autobiographical novels in English, including Before My Time (1962) and The Sun and the Moon (1971).
http://www.nanabees2.bizhosting.com/tucci.html
Morris Kline (1908 – 06/10/1992) US mathematician
http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/kline/obituary.html
Yannis Ritsos , 1909-Nov11,1990 Greek poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/yannis-ritsos
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/2678
Jack Paar (1918 – 01/27/2004) US comic, TV host (Tonight Show)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654967/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Joseph Heller (1923 – 12/12/1999) US writer (Catch-22 1961).
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/heller.htm
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/heller.htm
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924 – March 23, 1985) first African American woman to serve as a United States Ambassador, representing the U.S. in Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the first to enter the line of succession to the Presidency/served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with President Jimmy Carter.
http://blackhistorynow.com/patricia-roberts-harris/
Terry Southern, (1924-Oct.29, 1995), novelist (The Magic Christian), co-wrote the screenplay Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ; screenplay for the movie Easy Rider (1969).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0816143/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Scott Carpenter (1925- ) US Mercury astronaut; participated in the US Navy's Man-in the-Sea Project as an Aquanaut in the SEALAB II program off the coast of La Jolla, California, in the summer of 1965
http://www.earthsearch.com/
http://www11.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/carpenter-ms.html
Judy Collins (1939 – ) US Folk Singer/Songwriter
http://www.judycollins.com/index1.php
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172423/
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-),US author -first collection of stories Shiloh and Other Stories ( 1982), novel, In Country (1986). The Girl in the Blue Beret, 2011
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Mason__Bobbie_Ann.html
T. Denise Robinson (1967-)US screenwriter and childrens novel author
http://www.tdeniserobinson.com/
http://www.amazon.com/T.-Denise-Robinson/e/B005ZS5CCI

Passed:
0501
John Dryden (08/09/1631 –1700) English poet/playwright Marriage a-la-Mode
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/dryden-john
Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) Scottish writer and controversialist.
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/ross_alexander.htm
Dr. David Livingstone (03/19/1813 –1873) Scottish missionary, explorer
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/livingstone.htm
Paul Joseph Goebbels (10/29/1897 –1945) German propagandist
http://www.conservationwatcher.com/dr.pauljosephgoebbels.html
Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 Nov1886 –1968) English diplomat, author, diarist and politician(English sense of humor) -husband of writer Vita Sackville-West
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12787
Sylvia Nora Townsend Ashton-Warner (12/06/1893 –1978) English writer and poet.
http://www.townsendwarner.com/
‘Ah, sleep, you come not…”

Ah, Sleep, you come not, and I do not chide you.
You the ever-young, the sleek and the supple,
How should I bride you
Who am so harsh with care, so grimed with trouble?

You to the child’s cot and the lover’s pillow,
You to the careless creation in field and steading,
And to my roof-mate swallow
Come with goodwill, who come not to my dull bidding.

Like lies down with like. If I am to woo you
I must disguise myself, and in youth’s green
Habit pursue you,
Or imagine myself to what I never have been:

Or you in pity put on death’s leaden likeness
To follow my weariness.

http://theinkbrain.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/four-poems-by-sylvia-townsend-warner/

Richard Rollo Smolt Thorpe (February 24, 1896-1991) director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861703/bio
Ayrton Senna da Silva, (032160 –1994) Brazilian racing driver -three-time Formula One world champion
http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/45/
Eldridge Cleaver (08/31/1935 –1998) US activist
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryid=2743

Sites:
http://www.richiehavens.com/official_site/home.html
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
http://bodyliterature.com/2012/08/06/katy-didden/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42566/42566-h/42566-h.htm
http://vimeo.com/53914149
History:
0501
Mayday

1818- John Keats composes "Fragment of an Ode to Maia"
http://www.bartleby.com/101/629.html
1886- Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped began serialization in Young Folks magazine
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/1/2013
1944- Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/martin-flavin-2/journey-in-the-dark/

Bonus:

The Movies
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
1She knows a cheap release
2 From worry and from pain --
3The cowboys spur their horses
4 Over the unending plain.
5The tenement rooms are small;
6 Their walls press on the brain.
7Oh, the dip of the galloping horses
8 On the limitless, wind-swept plain!
Florence Kiper Frank, (1885 - 1976)

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