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Strafford Notes, 28 May, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:09:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

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Been a busy day.....almost forgot....

May 28
Events:
Portland (Every Tuesday), Port Veritas . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic 7:30 Feature -. . 8:30) . Enjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543 www.portveritas.com
May28 Rochester Writers' Roundtable 6:00- in the conference room at the Rochester Library
In June:
June 15th, 2013 Dunbarton, NH The Spireside Coffee House at the Dunbarton Congregational Church will feature Pat O'Brien (http://www.patobriensongsandstories.com/ Doors open by 7:00 PM to sign up for the Open Mic which starts at 7:30. We welcome Poets, Storytellers and all styles of music! Come and enjoy the show as we serve delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. Info: www.dccucc.org or email Lizz.dccucc.org
A Note from Bob Demaree:
I hope you will consider joining us for our fourth poetry/seminar at the Effingham Library on Saturday, June 22.
we will start at 10:00 a.m., have a brown-bag lunch together, and conclude at 2:00 p.m. We will be looking at the work of several familiar poets (e.g., Ted Kooser, Jane Kenyon) as well as a few that may be new to some. Please feel free to e-mail for further info. Please call or e-mail Marilyn Swan at the Effingham Library if you would like to put your name on the list.
Thanks and all best wishes. Hope to see you soon, Bob Demaree
contact: Marilyn Swan (603) 539-1537 marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us
Born:
0528
Thomas Moore (1779 – 02/25/1852) Irish writer- poet.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/moore-thomas
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 12/14/1873) Swiss-US naturalist
http://www.macroevolution.net/louis-agassiz.html#.UaR7DqbD_dc
Jim Thorpe (1887-Mar 28,1953) Native American Athlete -Olympics and American football (Olympics-gold-1912)
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe/
Ian Fleming (1908 – 08/12/1964) Scottish writer –James Bond
http://www.ianfleming.com/
Patrick White 1912 – 09/30/1990) Australian writer - novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature - 1973
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/pwhite.htm
T-Bone Walker, (1910- Mar 16, 1975), US blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/t-bone-walker-mn0000003829
Walker Percy (1911 – 05/10/1990) (southern) US writer -The Moviegoer (1961) National Book Award.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/percy/percy.html
Pape John Creech, (1917 -02/22/1994) US rocker/fiddle (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/papa-john-creach-mn0000744485
May Swenson (1919 – 12/04/1989) US writer / Poet; Another Animal 1954, Dear Elizabeth: Five Poems and Three Letters to Elizabeth Bishop (2000), and The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson (2003).
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/may-swenson
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/168
Question
Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen

Where will I sleep
How will I ride
What will I hunt

Where can I go
without my mount
all eager and quick
How will I know
in thicket ahead
is danger or treasure
when Body my good
bright dog is dead

How will it be
to lie in the sky
without roof or door
and wind for an eye

With cloud for shift
how will I hide?
Stephen Birmingham, (1932- ), American writer author of books: Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York (1967), Real Lace: America's Irish Rich (1973), California Rich (1980), andCertain People: America's Black Elite (1977).
http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Birmingham/e/B001HMN9HG
Betty Dean Sanders Shabazz 1936-June 23rd 1997 US Blackadministrator and the wife of Malcolm X.
http://vault.fbi.gov/betty-shabazz
Fred Davis Chappell (1936 - ) US author and poe/ t Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002
http://42opus.com/v4n2/speakswithfredchappell
http://sharingpoetry.tumblr.com/post/6994651760/fred-chappell-narcissus-and-echo
Maeve Binchy (1940- )Irish novelist - newspaper reporter and editor ; Minding Frankie (2010)
http://www.readireland.ie/aotm/Binchy.html
Gladys Maria Knight, 1944 - US singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gladys-knight-mn0000040225
John Fogerty, 1945 - US rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-fogerty-mn0000224294
Alex Grant Scottish American poet, teacher
http://www.mainstreetrag.com/Alex%20Grant.html
http://redroom.com/
Passed:
0528
Noah Webster (10/16/1758 –1843) US writer
http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ct_nw.htm
Anne Bronte (01/17/1820 –1849) English writer
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/28/2013
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bront%C3%AB-anne
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (July 13, 1825- 1898) US author
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dahlgren%2C%20Madeleine%20Vinton%2C%201825-1898
Sir John Lubbock (04/30/1834 –1913) English naturalist
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/john_lubbock/
James William Weldon Johnson (June 17,1871-1938). US poet
From A Poet To His Baby Son

For poets no longer are makers of songs,
Chanters of the gold and purple harvest,
Sayers of the glories of earth and sky,
Of the sweet pain of love
And the keen joy of living;
No longer dreamers of the essential dreams,
And interpreters of the eternal truth,
Through the eternal beauty.
Poets these days are unfortunate fellows.
Baffled in trying to say old things in a new way
Or new things in an old language,
They talk abracadabra
In an unknown tongue,
Each one fashioning for himself
A wordy world of shadow problems,
And as a self-imagined Atlas,
Struggling under it with puny legs and arms,
Groaning out incoherent complaints at his load.
http://www.poemhunter.com/james-weldon-johnson/poems/

Miriam Michelson (1870 – 1942 ) US Writer-journalist. The Awakening of Zojas, was a collection of four novellas published in 1910,
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/michelson-miriam
Sites:
http://americanjusticepartnership.com/
http://home.nra.org/
http://www.60plus.org/
https://public.resource.org/
http://www.margostever.com/poetry.html
http://nysparks.com/historic-sites/12/details.aspx
History:
0528
1851- the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention met in Akron
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1947- Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush, his eighth and second-last collection of poems
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Robert%20Frost&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
"Why Wait for Science"
Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
In her complacent Ministry of Fear,
How we propose to get away from here
When she has made things so we have to go
Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
To some star off there, say a half light year
Through temperature of absolute zero?
Why wait for science to supply the how,
When any amateur can tell it now.
The way to go away should be the same
As 50 million years ago we came,
If anyone remembers how that was.
I have a theory but it hardly does.
http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/cherry007/frost.html
1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall06/Weiner/pages/People/plumbers.htm
Bonus Poem:
‘Ah, sleep, you come not…”
Ah, Sleep, you come not, and I do not chide you.
You the ever-young, the sleek and the supple,
How should I bride you
Who am so harsh with care, so grimed with trouble?

You to the child’s cot and the lover’s pillow,
You to the careless creation in field and steading,
And to my roof-mate swallow
Come with goodwill, who come not to my dull bidding.

Like lies down with like. If I am to woo you

I must disguise myself, and in youth’s green
Habit pursue you,
Or imagine myself to what I never have been:

Or you in pity put on death’s leaden likeness
To follow my weariness.
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
http://theinkbrain.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/four-poems-by-sylvia-townsend-warner/

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