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Strafford Notes, 13 June, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:30:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I had forgotten about Benny Goodman as a lyricist. Skip featured the first verse of "These foolish things" as a poem. They don't write 'em like that anymore.

June 13
Events:
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 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 the reading and all audience members are invited to share their work. For questions, please contact Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com or visit http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
June 13, Manchester SLAM FREE OR DIE presents Eliel Lucero!! Doors open at 7pm. $5 cover. Slam starts at 8. som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale!10 poets 2 rounds! on this night, som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale! on this night, som of New Hampshire's most talented poets go head to head to secure 1 out of 5 spots on the 2013 NH Poetry Slam Team, which will be competing at this year's National Poetry Slam, being held this August in Boston! Expect spectacular performances all around in this no-holds-barred knock-down drag-out poetic battle royale! Milly's Tavern. 500 Commercial St, Manchester, http://www.facebook.com/events/325316237570914/
THIS JUST IN:
June 15th Bristol singer/songwriterRay Porcell & Oscar-winning screenwriter Ernest Thompson With special guests, Randy Roos and Sparky Elbaum. 7:30-9:30 This event will feature Ernest and Ray discussing and playing the songs from Ray’s latest CD. The Back Room at The Mill, 2 Central Street, Bristol, NH 03222 http://www.themillfudgefactory.com/ tickets at http://thebackroom.ticketleap.com/

Born:
0613
Fanny Frances Burney d'Arblay Burney (1752 - 01/06/1840 )— Eng. Novelist diaries and letters Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) -
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/burney/burneyf-bibliography.html
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 01/29/1939) English poet He and Lady Gregory founded the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899, which became the Abbey Theatre in 1904—Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=06/13/2013
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wbyeats.htm
Bruno Frank 1878-june20,1945 playright
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19753
Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (1888-Nov 30, 1935) Portuguese poet The Book of Disquiet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/pessoa.htm
Sir Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, 1892 – 21 July 1967) British actor. Played original Sherlock Holmes
http://www.basilrathbone.net/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 12/17/1957) English mystery writer- 11 novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, a dashing gentleman-scholar-detective. Her Lord Peter Wimsey titles include: Whose Body (1923),Gaudy Night (1935), Busman's Holiday (1936); also wrote verse
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dlsayers.htm
William Taylor Garnett ( 1894- Oct 3,1977 US Film dir The Postman Always Rings Twice
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307819/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Mark Van Doren (1894 – 12/10/1972) US writer-poet , educator The Happy Critic
http://www.sonnets.org/vandoren.htm
Ralph Angus McQuarrie (1929 – March 3, 2012) American conceptual designer and illustrator - designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574319/
Jean Jay Macpherson (1931- March 22, 2012) Can Poet
Poets & Muses
1Poets are such bad employers,
2Muses ought to Organize:
3Time off, sick pay, danger wages --
4Come, ye wretched of the skies!
5Poets, to reverse the story,
6Muse-redeemed, return and live:
7Solomon in all his glory
8Could not pay for what you give.
9PS.
10Breathing too is a simple trick, and most of us learn it:
11Still, to lose it is bad, though no-one regrets it long.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/macpherson-jay

Whitley Strieber 1945- US Novelist / Alien-abductee The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion
http://www.unknowncountry.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834460/
Lynda J. Coble (1953 – ) US writer (Angel in the Road)
http://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Lynda%20Coble&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank
Laura Kightlinger (1969 – ) US comic actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452716/
Passed:
0613
Alexander the Great (09/20/0356 –0323 BC) Greek military leader
http://wso.williams.edu/~junterek/
Veronica Gambara, (November 29, 1485 -1550) Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader.
http://www.jimandellen.org/vgpoetry/shady.hill.html
Osamu Dazai (1909 - 1948 ) Japanese novelist No Longer Human 1953; 1947, Villon's Wife
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dazai.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206796/
Martin Buber (02/08/1878 -1965) German /Israel philosopher/Zionist/theologist
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Buber/e/B000APCI28/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1371045375&sr=1-2
Clyde McPhatter, -1972, original lead vocalist with The Drifters, formed The Drifters in 1953, 1962 'Lover Please,' was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/clyde-mcphatter-the-drifters-mw0000838467
Tom C. Clark (sept 23, 1899-1977) US Supreme Court Justice, 1949-67
http://www.judges.org/50th/news/news091212.html
Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay ( 1947–1983) Russian poet and dissident,. Verses: 1963-1983
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64540860
http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/delone/
Benny Goodman ( May 30, 1909-1986 ) Bespectacled jazz clarinetist
http://www.amazon.com/Benny-Goodman/e/B000APWEM2
from These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you
A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumblin' words that told you what my heart meant
A fairground's faded swings
These foolish things remind me of you
As sung by Tony Bennett Words by Holt Marvell
Music by Jack Strachey and Harry Link
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/benny_goodman/therell_be_some_changes_made-lyrics-1066365.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVuI1aLDkLI
Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (March 1, 1924 –1993),American World War II pilot & Mercury Astronaut
http://www11.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/slayton.html
Jimmy Dean (Aug 10,1928- 2010) Country Singer, songwriter, sausage-maker
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-dean-mn0000352992
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jimmy_dean/big_bad_john.html
Tim Russert, ( May 7 1950-2008) American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751529/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19392/19392-h/19392-h.htm
http://poetryinmaine.org/barnes.php
http://www.portsmouthchamber.org/outdoorfun.cfm
http://www.devonbixler.com/poetry.html
http://www.kattywompuspress.com/blog
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174560/2013-nation-student-writing-contest
History:
0613
1942-, some six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Office of War Information (OWI) was created.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

1971-.The New York Times published the first installment of the Pentagon Papers
http://topsecretplay.org/

Bonus Poem:
From Cheerless Junkie’s Song
Seeking love upon a day,
A day of summer’s pride,
I left Long Island’s suburbs
For the Lower East Side.
The train it roared and thundered,
And I sang above its scream,
There’s a cockroach coming towards me
But it cannot spoil my dream.
Love! Love! and l.s.d.
It shall not spoil my dream.
Blue moonlight over Tompkins Square.
“Drop out, tune in, turn on.”
The village all around me,
And Long Island’s suburbs gone.
In a pad far down on Fourth Street Soon
I welcomed the approach
Of the rat that loves the twilight,
And the nimble footed roach.
Love! Love! at eventide,
The grey rat and the roach.
I’m always where the action is.
I blow my mind all day.
While on Long Island’s tennis courts
The bland suburbans play.
And I was born suburban!
Who would ever credit that?
No chick who saw me frugging
With the cockroach and the rat.
-Helen Adam
http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Adam-Helen_Selected.html

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