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Strafford Notes 3 May, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013 5:03:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Better late than never...

May 3 -fri
Events:
May3 ( -5) Salem Mass. The Mass Poetry Festival 2 - 3:30 p m
Poetry in Motion, with Jeff Volk
http://masspoetry.org/ http://masspoetry.org/massachusetts-poetry-festival-2013/
http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/talks/29645
May 3 Exeter– 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, 12 Elm St., Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Features Lucie Therrien followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net ) http://www.luciet.com/
Attention!:
May 16, 2013 Derry, NH, , – The Robert Frost Farm’s 2013 Hyla Brook Reading Series 6:30-8:30pm /a double feature by visiting poets Jane Satterfield and Ned Balbo of Baltimore, Md. They will be joined by Hyla Brook Poet Robin Small. An Open Mic follows the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work. For questions, please contact Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com or visit http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
Born:
0503
Niccoló Machiavelli (1469 – 06/21/1527) Italian writer (The Prince)
http://www.amazon.com/Niccolò-Machiavelli/e/B000AQ4J1K/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_7?qid=1367570749&sr=8-7
William Broome (1689–1745) English poet and translator. the Odes of Anacreon. Iliad ,Odyssey,
http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_rosebud.html
Jacob Riis (1849- May 25, 1914) Denish-American photojournalist /NY’s down-side . How the Other Half Lives, his 1890 call-to-conscience for housing reform, The Making of an American, his 1901 autobiography
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91981589
Edgar Watson Howe (1853 – 10/03/1937) US writer
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/howeew.html
Juhani Siljo 1888-May 16,1918 Finnish poet, ascetic, Nietzschean moralist and idealist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jsiljo.htm
Dodie Smith (1896 – 11/24/1990) English writer (101 Dalmations)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=703366
Golda Meir (1898 – 12/08/1978) Russian Israeli leader
http://mfa.gov.il/error.htm
John Henry Collier (1901-6 April 1980) British-born author and screenplay-Scifi&fant.
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00025.xml&query=collier,%20john&query-join=and
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171924/
http://literaryfictions.com/poetry-corner/wet-saturday-by-john-collier/
http://lengish.com/texts/text-85.html
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (1903 – 10/14/1977) US singer, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001078/
http://bingcrosby.com/bing/
Mary Astor (1906 – 09/25/1987) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000802/bio
Earl Wilson (1907 – 01/16/1987) US columnist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933350/
http://creativequotations.com/one/2506.htm
May Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 – 07/15/1995) US writer- poet, novelist, and memoirist.
The Phoenix again
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sarton-may
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/an-observation/
William M[Motter] Inge, 1913(1913-05-03) – June 10, 1973(1973-06-10)) US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Pierre Emmanuel, Noël Mathieu (1916 - Sept 24,1984) French poet (Sodome)
http://www.pierre-emmanuel.net/
Nick Joaquin (1917-April 29, 2004) Philippine novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/joaquin.htm
SIX P.M.

Trouvere at night, grammarian in the morning,
ruefully architecting syllables--
but in the afternoon my ivory tower falls.
I take a place in the bus among people
returning
to love (domesticated) and the smell of onions
burning
and women reaping the washlines as the Angelus
tolls.

But I-- where am I bound?

My garden, my four walls
and you project strange shores upon my
yearning:
Atlantis? the Caribbeans? Or Cathay?
Conductor, do I get off at Sinai?
Apocalypse awaits me: urgent my sorrow
towards the undiscovered world that I
from warm responding flesh for a while shall
borrow:
conquistador tonight, clockouncher tomorrow.

http://chrsdvdlao.weebly.com/1/post/2011/7/nick-joaquin.html
Pete Seeger (1919 – ) US folk singer, /activist wrote 'Turn Turn Turn', for The Byrds. 'If I Had A Hammer', hit for Peter Paul and Mary.
http://www.peteseegermusic.com/
Sugar Ray Robinson (1920 – 04/12/1989) US boxer
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=009625&cat=boxer
Yehuda Amichai ( 1924-Sept.22,2000) Ger-Israeli poet, - short stories, novels, and plays
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amichai.htm
Tatyana Tolstaya 1951- Russian short-story writer, essayist, and novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ttolst.htm

Passed:
0503
Thomas Hood (05/23/1799 –1845) English writer -humorist and poet. "The Song of the Shirt" from The Forge
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hood-thomas
Sara Coleridge (23 Dec1802 – 1852) Eng Poet and Editor of her Father’s works.
http://archive.org/search.php?query=%22sara%20coleridge%22
http://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/MembersOnly/CB30/CB30%20RevSchofield.pdf
William Whiting, (1825-1878) Anglican poet and music instructor. "Eternal Father, Strong to Save."
http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/e/t/eternalf.htm
The Watch
For 20 years, This sailor has stood the watch
While some of us were in our bunks at night, This sailor stood the watch
While some of us were in school learning our trade, This shipmate stood the watch
Yes ... even before some of us were born into this world, This shipmate stood the watch
In those years when the storm clouds of war were seen brewing on the horizon of history,
This shipmate stood the watch
Many times he would cast an eye ashore and see his family standing there, Needing his guidance and help, Needing that hand to hold during those hard times, But he still stood the watch
He stood the watch for 20 years, He stood the watch so that we, our families, And our fellow countrymen could sleep soundly in safety, Each and every night, Knowing that a sailor stood the watch
Today we are here to say: "Shipmate ... the watch stands relieved. Relieved by those you have trained, guided, and lead, Shipmate you stand relieved ... we have the watch!"
"Boatswain ... Stand by to pipe the side ... Shipmate's going Ashore!"
Albert Chavannes (February 23, 1836 –1903) Swiss- American author, philosopher, and sociologist, two utopian novels, The Future Commonwealth and In Brighter Climes,
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Chavannes%2C%20Albert
Charles Hoy Fort, 6 August 1874 - 1932 US Writer
http://www.forteana.org/html/fortbiog.html
Jerzy Kosinski Józef Lewinkopf, (06/18/1933 –1991) Award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467085/
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4036/the-art-of-fiction-no-46-jerzy-kosinski
Jackie Cooper (09/15/1922 -/2011) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178114/

Sites:
http://www.contutti.org/
http://sjpoets.wordpress.com/
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/12/sir-geoffrey-hill-our-greatest-living-poet
http://www.onbeing.org/
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~stephens/POEMS/poemshowe.html
http://stonetelling.com/index.html
History:
0503
1810- Lord Byron swam the Hellespont
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=05/03/2013
http://universalium.academic.ru/240428/Hero_and_Leander
1965- Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels published
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-desolation-angels/quotes.html
1963- Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-luther-kings-speech-dream-full-text/story?id=14358231#.UYOD7abD_dc
2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses
http://www.nhstateparks.org/explore/state-parks/old-man-mountain.aspx
http://www.seacoastnh.com/Arts/Poetry/Here-Comes-the-Old-Man-Now/

Bonus Poem:
Merida (Yucatán)
Too Anglo to sit still for a siesta
I roamed the streets of Merida, city
Of sun and open markets and museums,
The stone buildings with Spanish arches grand
Yet discreet, a model of good manners.
In early evening everyone assembled
In the posada, on benches beneath old trees
With spreading, leafy branches, the first of the stars
Strung like piñatas from the velveteen sky.
The city seemed to wear a signature fragrance,
Something light and elegant, purchased in Paris.
A city in which a woman could disappear
For a week or two or three, leaving behind
Controlling men, or a controlling man,
And dine alone al fresco on red snapper
Caught that afternoon and have a glass
Of wine in which the moon lingered like
A stop watch, or a small sailing boat.

by Kelly Cherry

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