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Strafford Notes, 5 June, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:46:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

The weather can't get much better than today's

June 5
Events:
June 5 2013 Portsmouth PPLP Poetry Hoot at Cafe Espresso restaurant at 7:00 PM. Featuring poets JeffreyFriedman & William Bill Doreski Open Mic follows, great group, menu and refreshments 738 Islington Street in the 800 Islington Plaza http://pplp.org/ http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm
Update:
June 13, 2013 DERRY, NH, , – The Robert Frost Farm’s 2013 Hyla Brook Reading Series 6:30-8:30pm /will feature the 3rd Annual The Frost Prize winner Caki Wilkinson! Hyla Brook Poet Bob Moore will also read An Open Mic follows and all audience members are invited to share their work. Free and open to the public. contact Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com or visit http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
Latenews;
June 14 Concord at 7PM at Gibson's-Charles Simic…book release
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
June 14,Chichester event with Neil English & Maren Tirabassi postponed
Details as they arrive
Born:
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Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887 – September 17, 1948 US, cultural relativist, and folklorist.anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
http://www.americanethnography.com/article.php?id=7#.Ua8Bm6bD_dc
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 08/19/1936) , Spanish poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding) writer, artist, pianist, composer Ditty of First Desire
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/163
http://allpoetry.com/Federico_Garcia_Lorca
Alfred Kazin (1915 – 06/05/1998) US critic
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Kazin/e/B001IQZB0O/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1370425576&sr=8-2
David Russell Wagoner (1926) i American poet
This is a Wonderful Poem
Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name,
It's wearing stolen rags, it's never been washed, its breath
Would look moss-green if it were really breathing,
It won't get out of the way, it stares at you
Out of eyes burnt gray as the sidewalk,
Its skin is overcast with colorless dirt,
It has no distinguishing marks, no I.D. cards,
It wants something of yours but hasn't decided
Whether to ask for it or just take it,
There are no policemen, no friendly neighbors,
No peacekeeping busybodies to yell for, only this
Thing standing between you and the place you were headed,
You have about thirty seconds to get past it, around it,
Or simply to back away and try to forget it,
It won't take no for an answer: try hitting it first
And you'll learn what's trembling in its torn pocket.
Now, what do you want to do about it?
http://www.poemhunter.com/david-wagoner/poems/
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=14873
Christy Brown (1932 -Sept 7, 1981) , Irish Writer and poet His autobiography, My Left Foot, was expanded into a novel expanded into the novel Down All The Days in 1970. Two lesser-known novels followed as well as three books of poetry. Seven years after his death, his autobiography was adapted to the big screen.
http://cerebralpalsy.org/inspiration/inspirational-movies-2/my-left-foot/
http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/category/christy-brown/
http://www.myspace.com/jillianbland_theartist/blog/174182811
Spalding Gray (1941 – 01/10/2004) US monologuist
http://www.spaldinggray.com/
Ken Follett (1949) Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels
http://ken-follett.com/
Rick Riordan (1964). US novelist The Lightning Thief (2005), the first book in the popular five-volume "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series for young adults.
http://www.rickriordan.com/home.aspx

Passed:
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Orlando Gibbons ( 1583- 1625) English poet
http://www.noblesandcourtiers.org/orlando-gibbons.htm
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/gibbons-orlando
O. Henry, William Sidney Porter (09/11/1862 –1901) US writer
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=6/5/2013
Stephen Crane (11/01/1871 –1900) US writer (Red Bage of Courage)
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/crane-stephen
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/index.html
Maurice-Yves Sandoz Maurice Sandoz ; (April 2 1892 -1958 ) Swiss writer.
http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D43735.php
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762208/
Eleanor Farjeon 13 February 1881 – 1965) English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire Young Gerard’s Song
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm
Nishiwaki Junzaburō (Jan 20, 1984 - 1982) Japanese poet teacher, & critic Ambarvalia (1933), and Tabibito kaerazu (No Return for the Traveler, 1947)
http://www.enotes com/nishiwaki-junzaburo-essays/junzaburo-nishiwaki
Cup's Primitivism

Along the riverbank where daphnes bloom
and shine,
passing by an angel who has an apple and a saber,
a blond boy runs,
holding firmly between his fingers
a fish called red-belly
above its milk-light eyes.
The golden dream warps.

—Translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato
http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/nishiwaki-janzaburo.html
Alfred Kazin (06/05/1915 – June 5, 1998) American writer and literary critic,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/august98/rodriguez_8-28.html
Mel Torme (sept13,1925 -1999, US Jazz singer and songwriter.1956 single 'Mountain Greenery' … his 'Christmas Song' (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) has been recorded more than 1,700 times.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mel-torm%C3%A9-mn0000344275
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 –2012) American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951)
http://iat.iupui.edu/bradburycenter/
http://www.raybradbury.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001969/

Sites:
http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html
http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/windfallpoets.html
http://www.transcanada.com/splash/
http://www.snappacharters.com/index.html
http://www.paulann.net/poems/index.php

History:
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1821- Shelley completes Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/adonais-elegy-death-john-keatsTop of Form

1851- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/203/203-h/203-h.htm
1959- Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, Minnesota
http://www.hibbing.mn.us/
Bottom of Form

1975- During recording sessions for Wish You Were Here at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Syd Barrett turned up out of the blue as Pink Floyd were listening to playbacks of Shine On You Crazy Diamond — a song that happened to be about Barrett. By that time, the 29-year-old Barrett had shaved off all of his hair (including his eyebrows), become overweight, and his ex-bandmates did not at first recognise him. Barrett eventually left without saying goodbye, and none of the band members ever saw him again.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/syd-barrett-mn0000044874

Bonus Poem:
CONFESSIONS OF A SON

My father lost me
somewhere between
the smell of leather
shoes and the enchantment of untying laces

Waiting to cross swords
with the tyrant
who would cow her
I man watched
hovering over
Mother

(I four feet high)
standing on tiptoe

Half century later
still I do not know
if culture curbed concern
or if he loved less
than he needed love

I store for her
affection without question
for him respect
with unlove
waiting for compassion
Velma Pollard
http://www.peepaltreepress.com/poetry_display.asp?isbn=9781845230210&au_id=63

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