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Strafford Notes, 31 May, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013 11:22:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Skip had trouble sleeping last night, but he's a trouper....here are today's SN's.

6:30 AM (9 hours ago)

to Herb
May 31
Events:
Washington May 31 LOC; at 12:00 Noon LITERARY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: WALT WHITMAN Poets Mark Doty and Sally Keith will celebrate the birthday of American poet Walt Whitman by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. This event is free and open to the public, and will feature a display from the Library’s collections. Co-sponsored by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Whittall Pavillion, Thomas Jefferson Building (first floor) (202) 707-5394 http://www.loc.gov/poetry/events/index.html#may31
someSpecialstuffInJune:
June 13, 2013 Pittsfield, NH 7PM, a poetry reading and book signing by Pittsfield's Pulitzer Poet Sharon Olds. At the Scenic Theatre the reading is free; suggested donation $5 and up. There will be a bake sale and auction/raffle at intermission. http://www.pittsfieldplayers.com/players/seating.htm
June 14, Chichester 7 pm at Chichester Library with featured Reader Neil English http://chichesternh.org/Public_Documents/ChichesterNH_Library/townlibrary
Born:
0531

Walt Whitman (1819 – 03/26/1892) US poet Leaves of Grass-1855
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Saint-John Perse, Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger 1887-September 20, 1975 , , France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960)
http://www.sjperse.org/
http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/olko/binary/perse-speech-e.html
http://archive.org/stream/logesotherpoems00sain/logesotherpoems00sain_djvu.txt
Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893 – 08/31/1986) US writer / children's author, The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930), won the Newbery Prize for children's literature
http://allpoetry.com/Elizabeth_Coatsworth_
http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Jane-Coatsworth/e/B000AP80RU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1369995391&sr=1-2
George Rippey Stewart (1895-08/ 22, 1980) American toponymist, a novelist, and a prof of English
http://www.georgerstewart.com/
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 12/24/1993) US theologian -writer The Power of Positive Thinking, 1952.
http://www.amazon.com/Norman-Vincent-Peale/e/B000APPE7E
Judith Arundell Wright (1915 – 26 June 2000) Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. Train Journey
http://www.nla.gov.au/events/doclife/brady.html
Clint Eastwood (1930 – ) US actor, director, mayor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
Al Young, (1939- ) U S jazz - writer played jazz flute and guitar, then worked as a DeeJay at a California jazz station. his first book was a poetry collection called Dancing (1969)& novel Snakes (1970).
JANUARY
The VW needs serious transmission work,
the Datsun blows a radiator hose,
Blue Cross wants $425 right away,
the last checks of December come back
bouncing off the wall at $8.50 a crack,
the turntable quits spinning,
mildew overtakes the bathroom walls,
there’s $50 worth of developed pictures
at Fotomat you can’t afford to pick up,
the old typewriter’s gonna cost $30
to fix up so you can rent it out.
You bite into an apple & hurt your molar
on the stem the same molar with root canal
work done last January & it’s time
to go in for a checkup. They’re gonna kick
you outta the screenwriters guild if
you don’t pay up the 2 years’ back dues.
The City of Los Angeles owes all
the money you spent in travel costs
to do a gig way back in November,
the radio you bought your son for graduation
fell apart & it’s cheaper to buy a new one
than have his fixed, the Xmas briefcase
your wife gave you its handle’s slipped off
already, prospects keep growing colder
as the water you’re in grows hotter.
You know it’s January when you have to stop
& pay close attention to what you’re doing
wrong that seemed O so right last July.

http://alyoung.org/poetry-lyrics/
Joe Namath (/1943 – ) US football quarterback
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/jets/category/_/name/joe-namath
Passed:
0531
"Wild Bill" Vukovich (Dec 13, 1918 – 1955) (accident on May30th) Indianapolis 500 Champ
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1129733/
Edith Hamilton (08/12/1867 –1963) US educator
http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Hamilton/e/B000AP7ET0
Jack Dempsey (06/24/1895 –/1983) US boxer
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=009009&cat=boxer
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, (11 August 1913 –1991) English novelist and short story writer
Hemlock and After
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/awilson.htm
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (10/22/1920 –1996) US Harvard professor/LSD guru
http://www.timothyleary.us/
William Morris Meredith, Jr. (January 9, 1919 –2007) American poet and educator. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980
Envoi

Go, little book. If anybody asks
Why I add poems to a time like this,
Tell how the comeliness I can't take in
Of ships and other figures of content
Compels me still until I give them names;
And how I give them names impatiently,
As who should pull up roses by the roots
That keep him turning on his empty bed,
The smell intolerable and thick with loss.
http://www.poemhunter.com/william-morris-meredith-jr/poems/

Sites:
http://bornpoets.proboards.com/
http://www.friendsofpulpitrocktower.org/
http://www.benningtonmuseum.org/index.html
http://www.gundalow.org/
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/defense-space/military/kc46a/index.page
http://americanactionnetwork.org/
History:
0531
1669, Samuel Pepys made the final entry in his nine-and-a-half-year diary
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=5/31/2013
Bonus Poem:
NOWHERE

I am sick with poison. I am sick with a thirst
for which nature has not created any drink.

From every field leap streams and springs.
I stoop down and drink from the earth's veins
its sacrament.

And the heavens overflow with holy rivers.
I stretch up and feel my lips wet
with white ecstasies.

But nowhere, nowhere...

I am sick with poison. I am sick with a thirst
for which nature has created no drink.

Karin Boye translated by David McDuff
Copyright © 1997 David McDuff
http://www.halldor.demon.co.uk/boyepage.htm

*this abbreviated edition of Straffnotes brought to you by Incandescent lighting…and the telephone ,and a certain yeast, without which ,I would have gotten more than 5 hours sleep… slm /Skip

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