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Strafford Notes, 13 May, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:14:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Today's heaping helping of verase from the Sage of Strafford.

May 13
Events:
May 13 Conway Conway Library Writers Night . 6:30pm Open Mic Night will feature Poet and Story teller Tom Diegoli Open floor from 6:30-7:20pm, Refreshments served. Listeners very welcome, too! (447-5552) (CPL at 447-5552
This just In:
May 24, Portsmouth South Church ; NH’s Poet Charles Simic celebrating the recent recent release of his book, New and Selected Poems: 1962 - 2012 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT) $5.00 Ticket The $5 ticket can be redeemed for $5 in credit toward the purchase of one of Mr. Simic's books. (One ticket per book, please.) We hand out the tickets the night of the event, when you check in at the door.
If you would like to avoid the fees, you can also purchase tickets by calling RiverRun Bookstore at 603-431-2100 http://riverrunpresentscharlessimic.eventbrite.com/#
Born:
0513
Alphonse Daudet 1840- Dec 16,1897 French short-story writer and novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/daudet.htm
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan 1842 - London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
- Trial by Jury (1875), The Mikado (1885), and The Pirates of Penzance (1879). Patience (1881)
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/sullivan.htm
Georges Braque (1882 – 03/31/1963) French artist /a leader of Cubism.
http://www.georgesbraque.org/
Alfred Earl Birney,1904-Sept3,1995 Can Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/birney-earle
Never Blush to Dream
1
1never blush to dream
2a lost love
3slides into your bed again
4there's no treason
5though the blood stirs
6when a stranger speaks his name
7each lover keeps the home
8he made within your mind
9and has a key
10to lie with you unbidden
11so long as you are holding
12gentle thoughts of him
2
13never feel a guilt
14to hear me
15whisper still within the night
16old loves lurk in eyes
17that brighten
18to the new enchanter's sight
19i too must rise from warmth
20to drift with other ghosts
21from worldly view
22yet i'll come into your bed
23some night again
24and dream myself alive in you
Notes to a melody in the "Chrysanthemum Rag" of Scott Joplin

Lady Daphne duMaurier Browning ( (1907- 04/19/1989) English novelist, biographer, and playwright Gerald (1936), The Du Mauriers (1937), Vanishing Cornwall (1967), Jamaica Inn (1936), Frenchman's Creek (1941), and Rebecca (1938)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/dumaurie.htm
Joe Louis (1914-4/121981), American boxer
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Lo-Ma/Louis-Joe.html
Roger [Joseph] Zelazny 1937-95"New Wave" sci-fi /US fantasy writer- 6 Hugos, Lords of Light (1967) and Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/zelazny.htm
(Charles) Bruce Chatwin (1940-1/18/89), British travel writer and novelist author of In Patagonia (1977). Anatomy of Restlessness (1997) and What Am I Doing Here (1989), novels include Utz (1984) and The Songlines (1987)
http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Chatwin/e/B000AQ6LZC
Miles Kington (1941 – 01/30/2008) Irish writer
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/columnists/miles-kington/
Mary Wells, ,(1943-26th July 1992). US singer (1964 single 'My Guy', written by Smokey Robinson).
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mary-wells-mn0000384675
Armistead Maupin nee Armistead Jones (1944) American author columnist and novelist
He's famous for his Tales of the City series, which evolved from a regular column he wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, beginning May 24, 1976.
http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/
Stephen R Donaldson, 1947 - US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/
Stevie Wonder [Steveland Morris] , 1950 , Saginaw MI, singer/songwriter (I Just Called To Say )
http://www.steviewonder.net/
Dennis Rodman (1961 – ) US basketball player
http://www.dennisrodman.com/
Stephen Colbert (1964 – ) US writer, comic, actor –ColorBlind
http://www.colbertnation.com/
Passed:
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Georges Cuvier, 1769-1832 French naturalist
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cuvier.html
Sholom Aleichem (02/18/1859 – 1916) Russian yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem's most famous protagonist: Tevye the Dairyman, the basis for the show and film Fiddler on the Roof.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Literature/Yiddish_and_Ladino/European_Writing/Sholem_Aleichem.shtml
Jean Aicard, 1848-1921 French poet and novelist
http://www.poemhunter.com/jean-aicard/poems/
Walter Alexander Raleigh (1922) Eng Professor
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/raleigh-walter-alexander
Charles Edouard Guillaume, ( Feb.16,1861-1938) Nobel PrizePhysics laureate
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1920/guillaume-bio.html
Gary Cooper (05/07/1901 – 1961) US actor
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=227
Gene Sarazen (1902- 1999) US Golfer
http://www.worldgolfhalloffame.org/hof/member.php?member=1102
George Dantzig [1914-2005] US mathmatician
http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (Aug 5,1916-2006) US Poet, Historian Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1949 for Terror and Decorum
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1940/04/but-im-a-conservative/304434/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/peter-viereck
http://www.nhinet.org/wein-vie.htm
from” Kilroy”
At times he seems a paranoic king
Who stamps his crest on walls and says "My Own!"
But in the end he fades like a lost tune,
Tossed here and there, whom all the breezes sing.
"Kilroy was here"; these words sound wanly gay,
Haughty yet tired with long marching.
He is Orestes--guilty of what crime?--
For whom the Furies still are searching;
When they arrive, the find their prey
(Leaving his name to mock them) went away.
Sometimes he does not flee from them in time:
"Kilroy was--"
with his blood a dying man
Wrote half the phrase out in Batan.
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~hsiao/verse/kilroy.html
Donald "Duck" Dunn (Nov 24, 1941 –2012) American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter; notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s {1962 single 'Green Onions', and 1969 single 'Time Is Tight'.} and as a session bassist for Stax Records,where he played on hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242551/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Sites:
http://www.nhaba.org/
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/11/poetry/annie-freud-with-marek-bartelik
http://roadpoetsnews.com/
http://palomapottery.com/
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators.aspx
History:
0513
1864-,the body of a Confederate prisoner of war was buried on the grounds of Arlington House,Arlington National Cemetery the first soldier buried at what is now Aplington Cemetery
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:.field%28NUMBER+.band%28thc+5a50411%29%29
1908-at the Governors' Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources
President Theodore Roosevelt delivered the opening address, "Conservation as a National Duty," http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html
1985- In Philadelphia, police storm the headquarters of MOVE to end a stand-off -killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents
http://www.onamove.com/
http://www.philly.com/philly/photos/Philadelphia_The_1980s_MOVE.html
2008- The US Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honour of Frank Sinatra. The design showed a 1950s-vintage image of Sinatra, wearing a hat.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/2008-05-14-1878607055_x.htm

Bonus Poem:
Restless

It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying
crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges
only to remain unseen;
We weave our web of what we believe we understand
of the relationship of our acts and events
only to remain misunderstood;
From that odd wisp of steam of heated discussions
to the urgent hiss of a new page calling;
I teeter on that thin ice --
That single space of uncertainty --
And I ask
“What am I doing here?”.

by Cecilia Borromeo

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/cecilia_borromeo/poems

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