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Strafford Notes, 12 May, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:13:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Suns out, Red Sox aere losing....what else is new???

Steven Manning
6:21 AM (10 hours ago)

to Steve
May12
Events:
May 12th –& 18th –19th Kingston NH The New Hampshire Renaissance Faire At Three Maples Farm ; from 10 to 5 PM each day. A portion of the proceeds raised is donated to charity. Tickets for this event are: $12.50 for adults and $8.00 for kids from ages 5 -12. Kids age 4 and under will be free. 3 Maples Renaissance Corporation 9 Thorne Road Kingston, NH 0384803834 http://www.bigskyjournal.com/index.php http://www.nhrenfaire.com/
These details Just In:
May 20 Dover Dover Public Library 11th annual Poetry Contest reading. Prizes to be awarded and all participants are invited to read their work. Public welcome. 6;30 Dover Public Lib. Lecture Hall. 73 Locust St. Dover, NH 03820 (603)516-6050 http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/
May 22 Newburyport. Mass Powwow River Poets: The Poetry Readings Series - now in its fifteenth year – is featuring Peter Filkins and Powow River Poet Midge Goldberg at 7:00 pm )
free and open to the public, includes an Open Mic. Poetry enthusiasts are urged to attend. Jabberwocky Bookshop,
50 Water Street, http://www.jabberwockybookshop.com/
Born:
0512
Edward Lear (1812 – 01/29/1888) English painter, writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/lear-edward
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828- 9 April 1882) Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/rossetti-dante-gabriel
Achmed Abdullah Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (1881-05/12/1945) British novelist and short story writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/abdullah.htm
Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970, Modern American poet
http://www.lorineniedecker.org/

Sorrow moves in wide waves,
it passes, lets us be.
It uses us, we use it,
it's blind while we see.
Consciousness is illimitable,
too good to forsake
tho what we feel be misery
and we know will break.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/poems.html

Clara Isabel Claribel Alegría Vides (1924-) Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet, novelist, essayist, and human-rights activist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lalegria.htm
Juhani Peltonen ( 1941-02/27/98) Finnish novelist, playwright and poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jpelton.htm
Passed:
0512
George Chapman ( 1559 –1634) English dramatist, translator, and poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/chapman-george
Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825 –1903) American Writer -critic and poet.
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=20287
Amy Lawrence Lowell (Feb 9, 1874 –1925) American poet of the imagist school, Editor, and Critic, 1926 Pulitzer Prize The Poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-lowell
Frederick Schiller Faust Max Brand (05/29, 1892 –1944) US author - thoughtful and literary Westerns
http://www.maxbrandonline.com/
John Masefield (06/01/1878-1967) English poet and writer, & Poet Laureate of the UK (1930-67 )
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/masefield-john
Sonnet
FLESH, I have knocked at many a dusty door,
Gone down full many a midnight lane,
Probed in old walls and felt along the floor,
Pressed in blind hope the lighted window-pane,
But useless all, though sometimes when the moon
Was full in heaven and the sea was full,
Along my body's alleys came a tune
Played in the tavern by the Beautiful.
Then for an instant I have felt at point
To find and seize her, whosoe'er she be,
Whether some saint whose glory doth anoint
Those whom she loves, or but a part of me,
Or something that the things not understood
Make for their uses out of flesh and blood.

Sites:
www.playersring.org.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE
http://www.good.is/posts/the-personal-press/
http://www.limerock.com/
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/

History:
0512
1883 -Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/12/2013
1919-Publication of T. S. Eliot's Poems
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/eliot-thomas-stearns
Bonus Poem:
AMBER
I have an amber ring that
shimmers through the lake’s water

I dive, stir up the silt, particles
of minerals loosen and float along

the bottom, just like the oak-blossom bud’s
starry hairs floated and were enclosed in the stone

then, during the time of sabre-toothed tigers
and small horses

in the sub-tropical forests with elderberry
and camphor trees here, where we live in houses

You see more clearly underwater
You see more clearly when you are sick

I dive into the cool water, stir up
silt, particles float slowly, minerals

like the oak-blossom bud’s starry hairs float
in amber through thirty million years, shimmering

in the lake’s water when I dive, everything
is stirred up, gets cloudy, shimmers
© 1997, Tua Forsström

© Translation: 2006, Stina Katchadourian
From: I studied once at a wonderful faculty Publisher: Bloodaxe, Tarset, 2006
From: Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar Publisher: Bonniers; Helsingfors; Söderstrom, Stockholm, 1997
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/14304/auto/AMBER

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