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Strafford Notes 4 May, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013 6:11:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Here we go again!!!!!

May 4
Events:
May 4 Salem Mass. The Mass Poetry Festival 2 - 3:30 p m
http://masspoetry.org/ http://masspoetry.org/massachusetts-poetry-festival-2013/
http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/talks/29645
Born:
0504
Charlotte Smith (1749-October 28, 1806) English Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/smith-charlotte
Horace Mann (1796 – 08/02/1859) US educator
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/horacemann.html
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 06/29/1895) English Victorian biologist and essayist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/huxley-thomas-henry
http://lexicorps.com/huxley.htm
Richard Hovey (1864-0224,1900) US Poet Philosophy
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hovey-richard
Harold Bell Wright 1872-May 24,1944) US Novelist The Winning of Barbara Worth
http://www.gchudleigh.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6997/pg6997.html
Lincoln Kirstein, (1907- ). US ballet impresario, in 1933, brought the choreographer George Balanchine to America, they founded the American Ballet company and later the New York City Ballet. -general director of the New York City Ballet
http://www.nycballet.com/explore/our-history/lincoln-kirstien.aspx
Elvi Sinervo 1912-0828,1986 Finnish writer, translator, humanist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sinervo.htm
Jane Jacobs (1916-April25,2006 ) US / Canadian Author The Death and Life of Great American Cities
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/12/what-jane-jacobs-got-wrong-about-urban-economies/4057/
Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke (1916–April 28, 2003) US naturalist in the high mountains of Alaska ;made valuable recordings of both meteorological and natural data
http://www.nps.gov/lacl/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm
Tauno Yliruusi 1927-June 17,1994 Finnish playwright, satirical novelist, and short story writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/yliruusi.htm
Thomas Kinsella, (1928- ). Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.
http://wfupress.wfu.edu/authors/thomas_kinsella.php
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/kinsella.htm
Night Songs
1
Now, as I sink in sleep,
My heart is cut down,
Nothing—poetry nor love—
Achieving.

*

Turns again in my room,
The crippled leopard.
Paw-pad, configured
Yellow light of his eyes,
Pass, repass, repass.
Quiet, my hand; he is tame.
Soon, while I dream,
will step
And stir the sunken dawn.

2

Before I woke there entered in
A woman with a golden skin
That tangled with the light.
A tang of orchards climbed the stair
And dwindled in the waxen air,
Crisping
the midnight,
And the white pillows of my bed
On apple-tasted darkness fed.
Weakened with appetite
Sleep broke like a dish wherein
A woman lay with golden skin.

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22396#sthash.uekPhYpy.dpuf
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22396
Jane Howard (05/04/1935 – 06/27/1996) US writer
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-06-29/news/9606290104_1_life-magazine-ms-howard-robert-howard
Amos Klausner Oz 1939- Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and literature professor Elsewhere, Perhaps
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/amosoz.htm
Robin Robert Brian Cook, 1940- , US Medical Thriller Novelist Coma
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/robin-cook/
Nickolas Ashford (1942- Aug 22, 2011) Half of US Songwriters, Ashford and Simpson - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nickolas-ashford-mn0002444382
John Force 1949- Funny car Auto racer
http://www.johnforceracing.com/
Graham Swift, (1949- ). novelist , Waterland, Booker Prize in 1984.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/graham-swift/
David Guterson (1956), US novelist Snow Falling on Cedars
http://www.bainbridgepubliclibrary.org/David-Guterson.aspx
Keith Haring (1958-Feb 16,1990 ) US Abstract graffiti and mural artist painter
http://www.haring.com/
Passed:
0504
Joseph Joubert (05/07/1754 –1824) French writer
http://www.bartleby.com/354/101.html
Nettie Stevens (July 7,1861-1912) US biologist X and Y chromosomes
http://www.geneticstv.org/scientists/stevens.htm
Edith Nesbit (0815,1858-1924) English Poet (Philosophy) _& Children’s novelist
(The Story of the Treasure Seekers)
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/nesbit-edith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/oct/01/poem-week-among-his-books-edith-nesbit
The Magic Flower

Through many days and many days
The seed of love lay hidden close;
We walked the dusty tiresome ways
Where never a leaf or blossom grows.
And in the darkness, all the while,
The little seed its heart uncurled,
And we by many a weary mile
Travelled towards it, round the world.

To the hid centre of the maze
At last we came, and there we found—
O happy day, O day of days!
—Twin seed-leaves breaking holy ground.
We dropped life’s joys, a garnered sheaf,
And spell-bound watched, still hour by hour,
Magic on magic, leaf by leaf,
The unfolding of our love’s white flower.

Online text © 1998-2013 Poetry X. All rights reserved. From The Rainbow And The Rose | 1905
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/676/
Carl von Ossietzky ( Oct.3,1889-1938) German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1935/
William Rose Benét (Feb 2, 1886 –1950) American poet, writer, and editor The Dust Which Is God - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1942
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html
Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( March 14, 1908-1961) French philosopher Phenomenology of Perception
http://www.egs.edu/library/maurice-merleau-ponty/biography/
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell 5th Baronet, (Dec 6 1892-1969) Eng poet
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00237.xml
Jane Sydney Auer Bowles ( Feb. 22, 1917-1973) US novelist playwright Two Serious Ladies 1943 ;In the Summer House (1954)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/14/two-serious-ladies-jane-bowles-review
Moe Howard (06/19/1897 –1975) US stooge
http://www.3-stooges.com/text/moe.html
Dom DeLuise (08/01/1933 –2009) US comic, actor
http://www.domdeluise.com/

Sites:
http://www.voicesfromtheamericanland.org/index.html
http://voiceseducation.org/content/renny-golden
http://www.nines.org/exhibits/A_Scottish_Dozen?page=1
http://epc.buffalo.edu/new/
http://archive.org/stream/twelvepoetsmisce00thom#page/n5/mode/2up
http://isle.oxfordjournals.org/
http://www.nhms.com/events/schedule/
History:
0504
1626- Dutch colonist Peter Minuit arrived on the wooded island of Manhattan
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/awkbhome.html
1886- a bomb explodes at a labor rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/haymarkethistory.html
1894- Bird Day was first observed
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1948-Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead published.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/4/2013
1970-National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio-
Allison Krause , Jeffrey Miller , Sandy Scheuer , William Schroeder
http://www.kentstate1970.org/
Bonus Poem:
Song in the Songless

1They have no song, the sedges dry,
2 And still they sing.
3It is within my breast they sing,
4 As I pass by.
5Within my breast they touch a string,
6 They wake a sigh.
7There is but sound of sedges dry;
8 In me they sing.
Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

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