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Strafford Notes, 14 May, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:44:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

More musings and notifications from the pen of Dr. Manning, I presume....

May 14
Events and Special Reminders:
May 14 Portland Port Veritas . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic 7:30 Feature Master Poet: Lola Haskins -. . 8:30) . Enjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543 www.portveritas.com
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.
May 16 Effingham 7pm Writers' Night at Effingham Public Library features poets, Charlotte Cox and Pat Savage followed by Open Mic opportunity for writers /musicians (5 min. limit). . Light Refreshments. The Library is located at 30 Town House Road in Effingham. Contact: Katie McCarthy 539-7694 (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com )***

A Notice:
From Eric-It is with great sadness I have to tell you that Ginny Foote passed away in her sleep last night(Sunday). She will be waked Thursday afternoon from four until six at the Wilkinson-Bean funeral home in Laconia. Immediately following a reception with a catered eat thing will be held at the Beane conference center on Blueberry lane, in Laconia. It is the road going to Meredith up the hill from Opchee park, it is on the left hand side of the road. First driveway on the right.
I have been requested by her son Dan, to ask her fellow poets to attend at least the reception and to recite a poem or speak what's in their hearts.
From Skip-truly a sad day …Ginny’s appearances at PITA and Moultonboro gave me much joy.
Born:
0514
Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 The greatest Italian poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm
Robert Owen (1771- 17th November, 1858.) England, factory owner/socialist
http://www.robert-owen.com/
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 08/02/1788) English artist
http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsborough.html
Luis Llorens Torres (1876 - June 16, 1944), Puerto Rico, the poet, journalist, playwright, and politician Love Without Love
http://www.elboricua.com/LuisLlorensTorres.html
Robert (Bertie) Charles Forbes (1880 – 05/06/1954) Scottish journalist
http://www.profitmagazin.com/editions/number_037.355.html
Miail Bulgakov (1891-03/10,1940 ) Russian journalist, playwright, novelist, and short story writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bulgakov.htm
Hal (Harold Glen) Borland (1900 – 02/22/1978) US journalist /author
http://www.openroadmedia.com/authors/hal-borland.aspx
Robert Duer Claydon Finch (1900 - June 11, 1995) Canadian/ US poet and academic.
http://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol18/trehearne1.html
Select Samaritan

We think we might adopt two children and
The problem is to know which kind we want,
Not Canadians, Refugees, But they can't
Be Jewish. A Couple of Spaniards would be grand
If they were fair. My Husband hates dark hair.
Afraid they are mostly dark in any case.
Germans would do, we don't care about race.
Except Chinese, must draw the line somewhere.

So would you let us know soon as you could
What sort's available? We have a car
And would be glad to come and look them over
Whatever time you say. Poles might be good,
Of the right type. Fussy? Perhaps we are
But any kids we take will be in clover.
http://forums.iransportspress.com/showthread.php?48000-Need-Help-Analyzing-This-Poem

Bobby Darin Walden Waldo Cassotto (1936 – 12/20/1973) American pop, rock, jazz, folk, and country singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. (1959 single 'Mack The Knife')
http://www.bobbydarin.net/
Göran Tunström (1937-Feb 5,2000) Swedish novelist and poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tunstr.htm
Jack Bruce, (1943-) Scottish bass, vocals, Graham Bond Organization, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Manfred Mann, Cream, (1967 single 'I Feel Free', 1968 single 'Sunshine Of Your Love'). West, Bruce and Laing.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-bruce-mn0000152312

George Lucas (1944 – ) US director
http://www.lucasfilm.com/inside/bio/georgelucas.html
David Byrne (1952 – ) US singer and guitarist , Talking Heads, (1983 single 'Burning Down The House', 1985 single 'Road To Nowhere'), Solo (2002 single with X-Press, 'Lazy').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-byrne-mn0000197364
Tom Cochrane 1953- Canadian Singer Life Is a Highway
http://www.tomcochrane.com/
Cate Blanchett (1969 – ) Australian actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000949/
Sofia Coppola, 1971 - American director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001068/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Mark Zuckerberg, 1984 - American internet entrepreneur -facebook
http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/
Passed:
0514

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846) US Poet Ouabi
http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/morton_sa.html
August Strindberg (01/22/1849 –1912) Swedish writer
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Strindberg%2C%20August%2C%201849-1912
Henry Rider Haggard, (June 22, 1856 -1925) English writer (Dawn, She)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/haggard.htm
Emma Goldman, (6/27/1869 – 1940) US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/
Frances Perkins (04/10/1880 –1965) US educator First female US cabinet member
http://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html
Georgia B D (ouglas) Camp Johnson, 09/10/1880 -1966 US writer /poet/playwright
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-989
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/Douglas-johnson/Johnson.htm
Your World

Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side

But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity.

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
with rapture, with power, with ease!

http://allpoetry.com/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson

Billie Burke (08/07/1885 –1970) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000992/
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson (Jan25,1878-1975) US Inventor -Developed radio and television at GE and RCA
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/2.html
Jean Rhys Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams (08/24/1894 –1979) Welsh-Dominican writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm
Rita Hayworth Margarita Carmen Cansino (10/17/1918 –1987) US movie star
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/bio
Vera Chapman, ( May 1898-1996 )– Eng. writer
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ts_info/folk/vera-chapman.html
Frank Sinatra (Dec 12, 1915 -1998) working in the Swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1953 film 'From Here to Eternity'. 1966 No.1 'Strangers In The Night'. 1969 single 'My Way'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000069/bio
Karl Jay Shapiro (Nov10,1913-2000) US Poet Person, Place and Thing - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1945 for V-Letter and Other Poems
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/shapiro/
Robert Stack (01/13/1919 –2003) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821041/
Stanley Kunitz, (July29, 1905-2006) American poet tenth Poet Laureate of the United States Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1959 for Selected Poems 1928-1958
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/kunitz.htm

Sites:
http://www.kitterylandtrust.org/
http://www.colum.edu/
http://www.oldforgebooks.com/
http://www.visitnh.gov/
http://www.crjc.org/heritage/V21-85.htm
http://www.bigheadpress.com/

History:
0514
1607, English settlers established the first permanent British settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjvatm2.html
1712- Published Alexander Pope's "Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue"
http://writersinspire.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/content/messiah-sacred-eclogue-imitation-virgils-pollio-alexander-pope-esq
1842-Alfred Tennyson publishes his “Poems”
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Tennyson-Michigan-Historical-Reprint/dp/1425524869#reader_1425524869
1945 - The New Republic publishes Dylan Thomas' "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/refusal-mourn-death-fire-child-london
1962 Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/14/2013

Bonus Poem:
Prayer

I ask good things that I detest,
With speeches fair;
Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,
But hear my prayer.

I say ill things I would not say -
Things unaware:
Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,
And not my prayer.

My heart is evil in Thy sight:
My good thoughts flee:
O Lord, I cannot wish aright -
Wish Thou for me.

O bend my words and acts to Thee,
However ill,
That I, whate'er I say or be,
May serve Thee still.

O let my thoughts abide in Thee
Lest I should fall:
Show me Thyself in all I see,
Thou Lord of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/stevenson/stevenson_ind.html

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