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Strafford Notes 9 May, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013 8:55:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Here's your daily dose of Manning....

May 9
Events:
May 9, 2013 Manchester 7:00pm until 11:00pm Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – SLAM FREE OR DIE presents an Open Mic and feature by Kevin Spak! Mark Palos (Host) (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )
This Just In:
May 13 Portsmouth Riverrun - 7:00 PM A Reunion of Sorts, Poets Hildred Crill, Mark DeCarteret, Katherine Towler and Mimi White will read their work, and Katherine will also read a few poems by Robert Dunn. http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/

Reminder :
May 15, Concord –Gibson’s Bookstore, PSNH poetry reading ; The features are Maine Poet Linda Aldrich and NH Hyla Brook poet Robert Crawford. 7pm- ; Open Mic afterwards; 27 South Main St.- information contact Don Kimball at prisdon.comcast.net.

Born:
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Sir J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie (1860- 06/19/1937), Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan) He created Peter Pan in the story The Little White Bird (1902), and then in the play Peter Pan (1904).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jmbarrie.htm
Henry J. Kaiser (1882 – 08/24/1967) US industrialist
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/309824/Henry-J-Kaiser
José Ortega y Gasset 1883-Oct 12,1956 Spanish philosopher and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/grasset.htm
Austin Clarke (1896–March 19, 1974)) Irishwriter- poet, plays, novels and memoirs.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~splash/Clarke.html
Sven Krohn (1903-06/26/99 ) Fin Philosopher and parapsychologist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/skrohn.htm
Richard Milton McKenna (1913 - Nov 1, 1964) American sailor and writer.(The Sand Pebbles)
http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mckenna/richard_mckenna.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060934/
William Tenn, Philip Klass ( 1920 – Feb 7, 2010), American science fiction author
http://dpsinfo.com/williamtenn/
http://www.amazon.com/William-Tenn/e/B000APL676
Richard Adams (1920 -). English fantasy novelist Watership Down (1972)
http://ashbrook.org/publications/guest-06-policz-watershipdown/
Manfred Eigen (05/09/1927 – ) German physicist
http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/chemists/manfred-eigen-info.htm
Gavin Lyall 1932-01182003 British thriller writer and journalist Midnight Plus One (1965)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/glyall.htm
Alan Bennett (05/09/1934 – ) English writer, actor (Beyond the Fringe) and playwright
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003141/
Charles Roger Hargreaves (1935-Sept 11,1988) English author and illustrator of children's books
http://www.mrmen.com/
Glenda Jackson (05/09/1936 – ) English actor and parliament member
http://www.glenda-jackson.co.uk/
Charles Simic (1938-) US Poet ; Pulitzer, 15th ,Poet Laureate of the United States , Pulitzer Prize -1990 for The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Simic/e/B000AQ6PE4
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic
James L Brooks 1940 – US producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000985/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Charles Platt (1945-) Brit/American author, journalist and computer programmer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/charles-platt/
Candice Bergen (05/09/1946 – ) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000298/
Billy Joel (1949 – ) US singer/songwriter
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/billy-joel-mn0000085915
Jorie Graham (1951-) U.S. poet- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jorie-graham
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/263/the-art-of-poetry-no-85-jorie-graham
Joy Harjo (1951) Native American poet
http://www.joyharjo.com/Home.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/joy-harjo
from Deer Dancer

You would know she could hear only what she wanted to; don't we all?Left
the drink of betrayal Richard bought her, at the bar.What was she on?We all
wanted some.Put a quarter in the juke.We all take risks stepping into thin
air.Our ceremonies didn't predict this.or we expected more.

I had to tell you this, for the baby inside the girl sealed up with a lick of
hope and swimming into the praise of nations.This is not a rooming house, but
a dream of winter falls and the deer who portrayed the relatives of
strangers.The way back is deer breath on icy windows.

The next dance none of us predicted.She borrowed a chair for the stairway
to heaven and stood on a table of names.And danced in the room of children
without shoes.

You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille With four hungry children and a
crop in the field.

And then she took off her clothes.She shook loose memory, waltzed with the
empty lover we'd all become.

She was the myth slipped down through dreamtime.The promise of feast we
all knew was coming.The deer who crossed through knots of a curse to find
us.She was no slouch, and neither were we, watching.

http://www.poemhunter.com/joy-harjo/poems/
Passed:
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Friedrich von Schiller Johann Christoph (11/10/1759 –1805) German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist
http://studiocleo.com/librarie/schiller/biography.html
"Peter Parley" Samuel Griswold Goodrich (08/19/1793 –1860) US writer /poet
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Goodrich%2C%20Samuel%20G.%20(Samuel%20Griswold)%2C%201793-1860
Thomas W. Higginson (12/22/1823 –1911) US Unitarian minister, writer, political activist
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/h/i/higginson_tw.htm
Mercedes de Acosta, -1968 American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite
Soiled Hands

From “Through Windows”

AFTER everyone had left,
It was always so wonderful sitting in the dark theatre with you.
There was a mystery about it,
As though the echo of many plays
Still lingered in the folds of the curtain,
5
While phantom figures crouched low in the chairs,
Beating applause with vapor hands.
Do you remember how we always sat silently?
I would shut my eyes to feel your closeness nearer.
Then slowly and like a ritual
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I would take your hand,
And you would laugh a little and say,
“My hands are awfully sticky”—or
“I can’t seem to keep my hands clean in this theatre.”
As if that mattered … as if that mattered …
Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.
http://www.bartleby.com/300/2095.html
Nelson Algren Abraham (03/28/1901 –1981) US writer (Man with the Golden Arm)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/nalgren.htm
Ab [Albert] Visser (Feb 14, 1913-1982) Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head) (Kaïn sloeg Abel)
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AVisser%2C+Ab%2C&qt=hot_author
Avram Davidson (April 23,1923-1993) US Sci-fi Writer
http://www.avramdavidson.org/
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/avram-davidsons-afterlife/
Dame Freya Madeline Stark (01/31/1893 –1993) English writer
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/11/obituaries/dame-freya-stark-travel-writer-is-dead-at-100.html
http://www.amazon.com/Freya-Stark/e/B001IOBOS4
Penelope Gilliatt (03/25/1932 –1993) English writer
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/11/obituaries/penelope-gilliatt-61-film-critic-and-writer-for-the-new-yorker.html
Sites:
http://guthriecenter.org/
http://www.offthesidelines.org/home
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/greatcourses.aspx
http://www.lauravanprooyen.com/
http://www.craigwerth.com/index.html
http://dunbartonartsonthecommon.com/Home_Page.html

History:
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1671-Captain (Thomas) Blood tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/stories/anattempttostealthecrownjewels
1914- President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day -asking Americans to give a public expression of reverence to mothers
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may09.html
1918- Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/9/2013
1926- Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rebyrd.htm
Bonus Poem:
May
O month when they who love must love and wed!
Were one to go to worlds where May is naught,
And seek to tell the memories he had brought
From earth of thee, what were most fitly said?
I know not if the rosy showers shed
From apple-boughs, or if the soft green wrought
In fields, or if the robin's call be fraught
The most with thy delight. Perhaps they read
Thee best who in the ancient time did say
Thou wert the sacred month unto the old:
No blossom blooms upon thy brightest day
So subtly sweet as memories which unfold
In aged hearts which in thy sunshine lie,
To sun themselves once more before they die.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

http://www.readbookonline.net/books/Jackson/400/

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