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Strafford Notes 2 May, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:34:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

If you have a chance to get to Rochhester NH tonight, the Portable Pantry will be hosting a real good event

Steven Manning
5:56 AM (10 hours ago)

to manning.steven.
May 2
Events:
May 2 Rochester Sign-ups are usually at 6 and the feature starts at 6:15 p.m. – Portable Pantry , Rochester – Features local Poet and humorist Bob Gannon. (poets & musicians) followed by open mike. Pat O’Brien, 866-6034
1st Thursday of the month - 7:00pm – Adelle’s Coffeehouse, Dover – Primal Tongue - Features followed by open mike prose (Josiah Eikelboom, 205-6192, jeikelboom.osiail.com)
May 2 Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die –feature by Sam Mercer! and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )

Born:
0502
Catherine the Great(1762 – 11/06/1796) Russian leader ruled for 34 years
http://www.biographyonline.net/royalty/catherine-the-great.html
Novalis Friedrich Leopold, Baron Von Hardenberg’ (1772 – 03/25/1801) German writer
http://logopoeia.com/novalis/index.html
from Hymns to the Night 4
Over I journey
And for each pain
A pleasant sting only
Shall one day remain.
Yet in a few moments
Then free am I,
And intoxicated
In Love's lap lie.
Life everlasting
Lifts, wave-like, at me,
I gaze from its summit
Down after thee.
Your lustre must vanish
Yon mound underneath --
A shadow will bring thee
Thy cooling wreath.
Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love on.
I feel the flow of
Death's youth-giving flood
To balsam and ether
Transform my blood --
I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy fire
I die every night.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/novalis.htm
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 – 06/19/1927) English/Australian humorist Three Men in a Boat (1889) and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
http://www.billgreenwell.com/lost_lives/index.php?key_id=581
James F. Byrnes (1879 – 04/09/1972) US Governor (SC)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html
Hedda Hopper, (1885 – Feb 1,1966) American gossip columnist
http://archive.org/details/1944OrsonWellesRadioAlmanacpart1
E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, 1890 -1965) US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20782/20782-h/20782-h.htm
Lorenz Hart 1895 - 11/22/1943 American lyricist The Lady Is A Tramp "Any Old Place With You," "You Took Advantage of Me" (1928), "My Romance" (1935), "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (1940), and "My Funny Valentine" (1937).
http://www.lorenzhart.org/
W.J. (Wilbur Joseph) Cash, (1900- ),US author The Mind of the South (1941)
http://www.wjcash.org/
Bing Crosby, (1904, - October 14, 1977) .US singer / Actor ‘White Christmas’; had 317 other hits
http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/1815/bing-crosby
Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903 – 03/15/1998) US doctor, baby specialist The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946). People like Spiro Agnew and Norman Vincent Peale blamed his permissive parenting philosophy for the '60s counterculture movement.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Spock-Benjamin.html
Leah Garchik (1945 – ) US columnist
http://redroom.com/member/leah-l-garchik/bio
Passed:
0502
Publius Ovidius Naso,43BC- 0017 Roman poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ovidius.htm
Leonardo da Vinci (04/15/1452 –1519) Italian artist, writer, inventor, philosopher
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7785/7785-h/7785-h.htm
Alfred de Musset (12/11/1810 –1857) French writer /poet Song Of Fortunio
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/demusset.htm
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (04/29/1877 –1929) US cartoonist
http://sports.nyhistory.org/tad-dorgan/
Claude McKay (1889-22 May 1948) African-American Poet
http://archive.org/stream/banjostorywitho00mcka/banjostorywitho00mcka_djvu.txt
Van Wyck Brooks (02/16/1886 –1963) US historian, critic
http://archive.org/stream/americascomingo00broogoog/americascomingo00broogoog_djvu.txt
William Wantling (Nov 23, 1933-1974) American poet, novelist, ex-Marine, ex-convict, and college professor
IT WAS 5 AM

it was 5 am
the only station coming thru
was this 50,000 watt clear-
channel out of Austin &

this jesus freak got on for
someplace called Ambassador
College &
for over an hour he revealed
how long hair
drugs
youthful disrespect for the
Father, for the old standards
& beliefs
& for authority
was destroying the traditional
family unit was undermining
Democracy &
threatening our survival
as a great nation

I lit a joint &
thought how grateful I was
that he was right &
thought how there was
still hope
http://www.shadowtrain.com/shadowtrain/id77.html
Charles McCabe (??/??/1915 –1983) US writer
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_McCabe/
Marilyn French (11/21/1929 –2009) US writer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/marilyn-french/
Sites:
http://www.federalreserveonline.org/
http://www.dcindexes.com/
http://www.seacoastartist.org/
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/
http://www.bigskyjournal.com/index.php
http://www.nhrenfaire.com/
History:
0502
1885- Good Housekeeping [women's magazines] made its debut
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Bonus Poem:
To the White Woman on the Plane
Who Doesn't Understand My Discomfort
When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair
What will you do now
your hands in the dark thick of my hair
tracing the spine of a curl.
Your sleeve brushing my face.
If I were your lover I would begin
to undress you, unbutton your blouse
the warmth of you suddenly there.
And you surprised at how easily we give in,
search my eyes for something
more than your face
something more than you
fingering a coil near my ear.
TORRIE VALENTINE
http://bostonreview.net/
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/elaine_scarry_poetry_literature_reading_empathy_ethics.php

Haiku 35
Refreshing to think
That the people who irk me
Will amuse my kids
And the little crap-
The zip things that drive me nuts-
Will be forgotten
Not so fondly thought:
That what I held so dearly
Will be dust in dust.
Slm 050213

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