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Strafford Notes, 30 May, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:04:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Summer has finally arrived.....YAY!!!!!!!!!

May 30
Events:
June 11, 2013 In Dublin NH - Becky Rule Del Rossi’s, , 8 p.m.
AND there are still two place settings available for a private (limited to 11 seats) "Dinner with Becky" before the main show. For a $100 donation (alcoholic drinks excluded), you can join Becky at 6:15 p.m.for a three-course meal (choice of five entrees) and have a front table seat reserved for the evening show (show admittance included). Becky Rule Live! New Hampshire’s “Moose of Humor” Benefit Fund Raiser $20 (all of which will go toward the endowment)For the non-profit Monadnock Writers’ Group Free Public Speakers Series Reserve your seat now: 603-525-4715 or 563-7195
Rebecca Rule has collected funny stories about what’s special about this rocky old state of New Hampshire for more than fifteen years, and includes many of them in her new book Headin’ for the Rhubarb: A NH Dictionary (Kinda). Her other books include Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire; Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments and Outright Lies; and The Best Revenge, which won the NH Writers Project award for Outstanding Work of Fiction. New Hampshire magazine named her “Thalia: Muse of Comedy” in its list of Granite State muses. She also hosts an interview show, the NH Authors Series, on NHPTV.
Born:
0530

Tsar Peter the Great (1672 – 01/28/1725) Russian royalty
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/peter1st.asp
Vissarion G. Belinsky (1811-1848) Russian Literary critic, social thinker, essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/belinsk.htm
Mikhail Bakunin (1814 – 07/01/1876) Russian subversive
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbakunin.htm
Alfred Austin (1835 – June2 1913 )
http://www.poemhunter.com/alfred-austin/poems/
Love's Wisdom

Now on the summit of Love's topmost peak
Kiss we and part; no further can we go:
And better death than we from high to low
Should dwindle or decline from strong to weak.
We have found all, there is no more to seek;
All have we proved, no more is there to know;
And time could only tutor us to eke
Out rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow.
We cannot keep at such a height as this;
For even straining souls like ours inhale
But once in life so rarefied a bliss.
What if we lingered till love's breath should fail!
Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss,
Then down by separate pathways to the vale.
http://www.sonnets.org/austin.htm#020
Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901 – 07/09/1979) US actor, writer playwright of The Wives of Henry VIII (1937), in which she played all the wives… her book Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1959)
http://www.amazon.com/Cornelia-Otis-Skinner/e/B000APT86W
Countee Cullen (1903 – 01/09/1946) US writer -Harlem poet Color (1925) and The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm
Hannes OG Olof Gösta Alfvén pen name Olof Johannesson, (1908 - April 2,1995) Swedish physicist(electrical Engineer) (Nobel 1970) for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
http://www.plasmauniverse.info/people/alfven.html
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/johannesson_olof
Julian Gustave Symons (1912-Jan 1, 1994 )US writer
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30747.Julian_Symons
Harry”Hal” Clement Stubbs 1922- 29 Oct 2003 US, sci-fi author
http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html
Paul S. Newman (1924 -05/ 30/ 1999) American writer of comic books, comic strips, and books,
http://www.solarguard.com/paulintro.htm
Joseph W. Kennedy (1916-May 5,1957) American scientist credited with being a co-discoverer of plutonium along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.
http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/J_Kennedy.shtml
Manny Ramirez 1972- “baseyballbeenbellybellygoodtome…*
http://www.mannyramirez.com/
Passed:
0530
Christopher 1564 –1593) English writer dramatist Marlowe (02/06/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/marlowe.htm
Peter Paul Rubens( June 28 ,1577-1640) Flemish painter
http://www.rubensonline.be/
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 1744) English poet,
http://www.poemhunter.com/alexander-pope/poems/
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (11/21/1694 –1778) French philosopher writer
http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/
Frederick Locker-Lampson (May 8 1821-1895) Brit Poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/frederick-locker-lampson-2/poems/
Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890 –1960) Russian writer poet (Doctor Zhivago)
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/yevgeny/pasternak/index.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/30/2013
http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/pasternak/paster.html
Leo Szilard (02/11/1898 –1964) Hungarian-US scientist
http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html
Claire Goll ( October 29,1890-1977) Fr/Ger writer & poet
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goll-claire
Gwendolyn B. Bennett, (July 8, 1902,- 1981), African American writer -Journalist, Poet, Graphic Artist, Teacher contributed to Opportunity, which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem; best known for her short story, Wedding Day
Sonnet 2

Some things are very dear to me—
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the sea
Or crocuses where snow has lain . . .
The iridescence of a gem,
The moon's cool opalescent light,
Azaleas and the scent of them,
And honeysuckles in the night.
And many sounds are also dear—
Like winds that sing among the trees
Or crickets calling from the weir
Or Negroes Read more →humming melodies.
But dearer far than all surmise
Are sudden tear-drops in your eyes

http://allpoetry.com/Gwendolyn_Bennett

Peter Orlovsky, ( July 8, 1933 -2010) US Beat Poet /companion of A. Ginsberg Snail Poem
http://www.boppin.com/orlovsky.html

Sites:
www.sargent-press.com
http://www.journeyspublishing.com/bobs-blog/page/2/
http://www.citizensforethics.org/content/index
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/wilkie/Wilkie/hist_mass_p12.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxC-knQmkM
http://www.original-art-studio.com/2009/11/fearing-paris.html
http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/why-poetry-cant-find-its-public/
History:
0530
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2874/2874-h/2874-h.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Joan%2C%20of%20Arc%2C%20Saint%2C%201412-1431%20--%20Drama
1868 - Memorial Day was observed widely for the first time in the U.S.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1911 - Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes.
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/drivers/bio/ray_harroun
1968 - The Beatles began recording the "White Album."
http://www.thewhitealbumproject.com/songs/overview-a-quick-look-at-the-tracks/
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2010/06/decades-after-tiananmen-square-the-goddess-of-democracy-speaks.html
Bonus Poem:
Air Travel
1A soup of atmosphere tugs us back
2Purple stew at sunset
3All of us levy a coordinated breaststroke
4Captain shouts Heave, ya bastards!
5You expected comfort?
Christakos, Margaret

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/christakos-margaret

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