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Strafford Notes, 4 June, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:59:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Hear, hear!!!

June 4
Events:
0604, Moultonborough (1st Tuesday of the month) -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro - Features Eric Marsh followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)
Portland: June 4th . Bull Feeney’s 375 Fore St. 7-10pm / All Ages/ $3 (2 for $5)
Portland: June 10th . Mama’s CrowBar, 189 Congress St. 9-11pm / 21+ / Beer Only & Cash Only No Regrets Tour: Chris Leja & William Stanford Knudsen
Born:
0604
Socrates (0470 – 05/07/399 BC) Greek philosopher
http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/S/Socrates.html
Jacques Roumain (1907- Aug 18,1944) Haitian poet, novelist, and short story writer politician, and advocate of Marxism.
Closing stanza of "Filthy Negroes"
Too late
deep into the heart of infernal jungles
will throb the terrible telegraphic beating
of the tom-toms tirelessly beating beating
beating
that the negroes
won't take anymore
won't take anymore
being your niggers
your filthy negroes
too late
for we will have risen
from the thieves' dens from the gold mines in the Congo
and South Africa
too late it will be too late
on the cotton plantations of Louisiana
in the sugar cane fields of the Antilles
to halt the harvest of vengeance
of the negroes
the niggers
the filthy negoes
it will be too late I tell you
for even the tom-toms will have learned the language
of the Internationale
for we will have chosen our day
day of the filthy negroes
filthy Indians
filthy Hindus
filthy Indo-Chinese
filthy Arabs
filthy Malays
filthy Jews
filthy proletarians.
And here we are arisen
All the wretched of the earth
all the upholders of justice
marching to attack your barracks
your banks
like a forest of funeral torches
to be done
once
and
for
all
with this world
of negroes
niggers
filthy negoes
http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/roumain.htm

Robert Anderson, (1917- feb 9,2009) US playwright Tea and Sympathy (1953)
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=2372
Freddy Fender Baldemar G. Huerta (1937Oct 14, 2006) Mexican-American singer,actor Before the Next Teardrop Falls
http://www.freddyfender.com/
Roy McDonald (1937- ) Canadian/Eng poet and busker (street performer) i
http://www.thebeatmagazine.ca/index.php/dishing-with-donald/923-dishing-with-roy-mcdonald-and-jason-rip
Susan Jacoby (1945- )US author Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
http://www.susanjacoby.com/
Joseph Joe Hillstrom King (1972-), American author and comic book writer.[NE son o’tha BOSS]
http://joehillfiction.com/

Passed:
0604
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt 2 April 1725 –1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/casanova.htm

Margaret E. Munson Sangster (Feb 22, 1838- 1912 ) US editor, & writer -fiction and verse,
At Twilight

You came to me through the candlelight,
When the world, outside, was grey....
You came to me through the candlelight
When the day was done, and the misty night
Crept through the land. And your eyes were bright,
And they seemed to laugh and pray.
You came to me through the candlelight,
And you took my hands, and you held them tight,
And you didn't speak, but, dear, I knew--
And my heart and my soul were part of you.

You came to me through the candlelight,
When the world, outside, was grey;
And I looked in your eyes and, glowing there,
I saw a hope and I read a prayer;
And I knew, at last, that I didn't care,
If life were a troubled, weary way,
As long as I walked with you.
You came to me, at the close of day,
Through the candlelight--when the world was grey--
And dreams of Heaven seemed strangely new....
And I told you, dear, to stay!

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/s/margaret_elizabeth_sangster.html
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sangster-margaret-e
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Sangster%2C%20Margaret%20Elizabeth%20Munson%2C%201838-1912
Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 –2011) American writer, The Cat Who..." mystery novels.
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110607/NEWS/110609871/?tc=obinsite

Sites:
www.sargent-press.com
http://www.nad.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42753/42753-h/42753-h.htm
http://www.prescottpark.org/wednight.cfm
http://www.folkintheloungeatkarins.nl/
http://www.leftforum.org/

History:
0604
1917-The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded
http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/pulitzerindex.html
1919-Congress, by joint resolution, approved the woman's suffrage amendment
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1924- E. M. Forster's A Passage to India was published
http://www.storyinsight.com/techniques/media/forster.html
1940-Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lonelyhunter/
1962- William Faulkner’s The Reivers was published
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~prewett/writings/BookReviews/TheReivers.html
1972-Thirty-two-year-old Joseph Brodsky was expelled from the USSR
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9603/brodsky.html
Bonus Poem:
Last

FRIEND, whose smile has come to be

Very precious unto me,

Though I know I drank not first

Of your love's bright fountain-burst,

Yet I grieve not for the past,
5
So you only love me last!

Other souls may find their joy

In the blind love of a boy:

Give me that which years have tried,

Disciplined and purified,—
10
Such as, braving sun and blast,

You will bring to me at last!

There are brows more fair than mine,

Eyes of more bewitching shine,

Other hearts more fit, in truth,
15
For the passion of your youth;

But, their transient empire past,

You will surely love me last!

Wing away your summer-time,

Find a love in every clime,
20
Roam in liberty and light,—

I shall never stay your flight;

For I know, when all is past

You will come to me at last!

Change and flutter as you will,
25
I shall smile securely still;

Patiently I trust and wait

Though you tarry long and late;

Prize your spring till it be past,

Only, only love me last!

Elizabeth (Akers) Allen. 1832–1911
http://www.bartleby.com/102/

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