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Strafford Notes, 20 May, 2-013
Monday, May 20, 2013 4:24:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Here's your daily does of Mr. Manning

May 20
Events:
May 20 Rye, 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café,– Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).
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/
Born:
0520
William Thornton, 1759 - March 28, 1828 architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/adecenter/essays/B-Thornton.html
Dolley Madison (1768 – 07/12/1849) US first lady (4)
http://www.montpelier.org/james-and-dolley-madison/dolley-madison/bio
William Congreve 1772 – 16 May 1828) English inventor and rocket artillery pioneer
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Congreve_rocket.html
Honoré de Balzac (1799-08/18/1850) French writer -novels and short stories La Comédie humaine,
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/balzac.htm
William Gilbert, (1804 – Jan.3, 1890) British writer -novels, biographies, histories, essays ,and popular fantasy stories; the father of dramatist W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan.
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/lastlord.htm
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 05/08/1873) English philosopher, economist
http://www.utilitarianism.com/jsmill.htm
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), Norwegian novelist Nobel Prize for Literature1928
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/undset.htm
Emile Berliner (1851 – August 3, 1929) American inventor. Developedthe disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlsp.html
Margery Allingham (1889 or 1904 – 06/30/1966) English crime writer,
http://jdcarr.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-756.html
James Stewart (1908 – 07/02/1997) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/
http://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Stewart-His-Poems/dp/0517573822
David Ray (1932-), American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir.
http://www.davidraypoet.com/
FOUR ACRES

The new owners call them
virgin--their four acres

of desert--soon deflowered
by bulldozers, jackhammers

and posts driven in. A rattle
snake wanders in, not aware

he has been evicted
after a few million years.

Though he has no brows
I would swear he reared up

and raised them--a snake
afflicted with perplexity.

What has become here
of home? A call is put in

for the exterminator,
who has already dealt

with the cougar, coyote,
mountain lion, javelina

and quail. The wife dreams
of herself as Eve

in a garden, a snake
crawling near, wrapping

around her. His face
bears a resembance to Satan.

She wakes her husband
to tell him.

("Four Acres" appears in The Anthology of New England Writers 2004 as an Editor's Choice.)
http://www.davidraypoet.com/New%20Work.htm

Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere (1946 – ) Armenian/part Cherokee and French.-US singer, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000333/bio
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cher-mn0000107090
Pat Morrissey Lewis(1954- ) US fantasy fiction Illustrator
http://patdonation.blogspot.com/
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/foxfire-studio-inc.html
William Michaelian, 1956- American novelist and poet
http://www.william-michaelian.com/
Bronson A Pinchot 1959- American character actor
http://bronsonpinchot.org/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001621/
Tony Anthony Wayne Stewart, 1971 - American race car driver
http://www.tonystewart.com/What is it to believe? Being a carer
A cradle rocking.
Passed:
0520
Christopher Columbus (08/26/1451 –1506) Italian explorer
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.asp
Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) Scottish writer Poet and controversialist
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/ross_alexander.htm
Thomas Sprat (Sept 20, 1635- 1713) Eng scholar/poet
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/thomas-sprat
Thomas Warton the younger (Jan. 9, 1728-1790) Eng. poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry
http://www.poemhunter.com/thomas-warton-jr/
Marquis de Lafayette (09/06/1757 – 05/20/1834) French soldier, statesman
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/unionsquarepark/monuments/884
Joseph Blanco White (7/ 11/ 1775 – 1841) English/Spanish theologian and poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/white-joseph-blanco
Mary Ann Lamb (3 Dec. 1764 –1847), English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6568
John Clare July 13, 1793 1864 English Romantic writer / Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/clare-john
Audrey Wurdemann A uslander, (Jan 1, 1911 –1960 ) American poet-the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24, Bright Ambush.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30813FB3E5916738DDDA90A94DD405B808AF1D3
http://pulitzer-prize.findthedata.org/l/542/Audrey-Wurdemann
Bright Ambush
I walk in ambush bright
With terror and delight,
The savage lovely beast
Pacing within my breast,
The proud heart being more
Proud than it was before
For having in its hold
A prize of living gold.
Not Darius nor Pan,
Asian or African,
Leashed the unleaguered length
Of such a sinewy strength.
Nor did the bright immortal
Enter by any portal
With violence of art
Into my hollow heart.
But suddenly it came
From nowhere, like a flame.
And I am not afraid,
Having this ambuscade
That will take life and death
Easily with its breath.
And even should it turn
And its strict substance burn
Myself away, I would
Find that a fatal good.
http://mongrel4u.wordpress.com/tag/audrey-wurdemann/
Stephen Jay Gould, (Sept10,1941- 2002) American paleontologist
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/
Sites:
http://pplp.org/DoingTime.htm
http://www.invent.org/
http://www.patobriensongsandstories.com/
http://www.artsonelm.org/
http://www.barredowlretreat.com/workshops/
History:
0520
1862-Homestead Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1927- the "Lone Eagle,"Charles A(gustus) Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis took off alone from muddy Roosevelt Field on Long Island.
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/plane/
1932-Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
http://www.newsinhistory.com/blog/amelia-earhart%E2%80%99s-solo-flight-across-atlantic
1937-W. H. Auden's Spain was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/20/2013
Bonus Poem:
- Sonnet XII –

Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun,
Depths of the azure eastern sky between,
Plains where the poplar-bordered highways run,
Patched with a hundred tints of brown and green, —
Beauty of Earth, when in thy harmonies
The cannon's note has ceased to be a part,
I shall return once more and bring to these
The worship of an undivided heart.
Of those sweet potentialities that wait
For my heart's deep desire to fecundate
I shall resume the search, if Fortune grants;
And the great cities of the world shall yet
Be golden frames for me in which to set
New masterpieces of more rare romance.
by Alan Seeger
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/617/pg617.html

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