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Strafford Notes, 14 June, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013 10:10:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Happy Flag Day!!!!

June 14-Flag day
Events:
June 14,,Concord; Gibson's Bookstore is pleased to welcome former Poet Laureate Charles Simic as he presents his new volume of verse, New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012.
27 S Main St This event is free and open to the public http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/poet-charles-simic
Entertainment!:
June 14 Portsmouth; Acoustic Truffle & Cormac McCarthy, 9 p.m. at the Press Room,$6 cover.
http://www.cormac-mccarthy.com/ https://myspace.com/trufflespace/bio
This Update-Rescheduled…
July 26,Chichester 7:00 PM Chichester Library with featured Readers Neil English & Maren Tirabassi , Open Mic http://chichesternh.org/Public_Documents/ChichesterNH_Library/townlibrary
Born:
0614
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, 1479 -1552 Italian scholar & poet
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/itali/autoren/giraldi_itali.html
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1 July 1811-96) American writer and philanthropist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/stowe-harriet-beecher
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hbstowe.htm
John Bartlett, (1820 – December 3, 1905) US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27889/27889-h/27889-h.htm
Kawabata Yasunari, 1899 -1972 Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-bio.html
Margaret Bourke-White (1904 – 08/27/1971) US photojournalist /innovator/correspondent
Nicolas Clerihew Bentley, 1907 – 14 August 1978) British author and illustrator
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/nicholasbentley/biography
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/Clerihew
Kathleen Jessie, Raine (1908 -July 6th 2003. ) Eng lyrical poet critic, and scholar
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=34
http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/kathleen_raine_2004_9.pdf
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, (1909– April 14, 1995) US folk singer/actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412322/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
http://www.burlives.com/
Georg Henrik von Wright(1916-07/16,2003) Finnish philosopher logician,,cultural critic & essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gwright.htm
Pierre Emil George Salinger (1925 – October 16, 2004) White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, news-correspondent, served as a United States Senator in 1964 and was campaign manager for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/pegsalinger.htm
Che Guevara (1928 – 10/09/1967) Latin American [Argentine] revolutionary
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/guevar.htm

Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], (1929-Nov. 18, 2004) American composer, songwriter, and jazzpianist.
http://notablemusic.net/artists/2010/cy-coleman
Witchcraft

Those fingers in my hair
That sly come hither stare
That strips my conscience bare
Its witchcraft

And Ive got no defense for it
The heat is too intense for it
What good would common sense for it do

Cause it's witchcraft, wicked witchcraft
And although, I know, it's strictly taboo

When you arouse the need in me
My heart says yes indeed in me
Proceed with what your leading me to

Its such an ancient pitch
But one I wouldn't switch
Cause there's no nicer witch than you

Songwriters: CY COLEMAN, CAROLYN LEIGH
As sung by Frank Sinatra
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+sinatra/witchcraft_20056399.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZIBm2QGaM
Jerzy Kosinski 1933-050391, Polish-American novelist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467085/bio
John Edgar Wideman, (1941).US novelist and essayist Sent for you Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), a memoir Brothers and Keepers (1986)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/john-edgar-wideman/
Jonathon Raban, 1942- Eng.travel writer Old Glory: An American Voyage (1981).
http://www.jonathanraban.com/
Laurie Colwin, (1944 - Oct 24,1992) American author
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/laurie-colwin/
Donald Trump (1946 – ) US business magnate, television personality and author
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874339/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Harry Turtledove, 1949 - American author
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/harry-turtledove/
Montgomery Edward Scott, 2160 - Aberdeen Scotland, fictional eng (Star Trek)
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Montgomery_Scott
Passed:
0614
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (1798 –1837) Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.
http://poetryintranslation.com/klineasleopardi.htm
Edward Fitzgerald (March 31,1809-1883) Eng Writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/fitzgerald-edward
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=FitzGerald%2C%20Edward%2C%201809-1883
Max Weber, 21 April 1864 –1920) German sociologist and political economist /historian
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/max_weber.html
http://www.amazon.com/Max-Weber/e/B00ADD0FJ0

Mary Cassatt (05/22/1844 –1926) US artist

Jerome K. Jerome, (May2, 1859–1927) English writer and humorist
http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/
G ilbert Keith Chesterton (05/29/1874 –1936) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/chesterton-gilbert-keith
http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gkchest.htm
Salvatore Quasimodo, 1901-68 , Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/quasimod.htm
Jorge Luis Borges (08/24/1899 –1986) Argentine writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jlborges.htm
Alan Jay Lerner (08/31/1918 –1986) US lyricist with Frederick Loewe, Brigadoon, and My Fair Lady.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503585/
Henry Mancini, (April 16,1924-1994 US composer (Pink Panther, Moon River) theme for the Pink Panther movies
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/henry-mancini-mn0000678009
Roger Joseph Zalazny (May 13,1937-1995 US sci-fi writer Lord of Light (1967)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/z/roger-zelazny/
Rory Gallagher (03/02/1948 –1995) Irish blues-rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader.
http://www.rorygallagher.com/
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 –2002) Caribbean-American writer and activist
http://www.junejordan.com/
from Letter To The Local Police

I have encountered a regular profusion of certain
unidentified roses, growing to no discernible purpose,
and according to no perceptible control, approximately
one quarter mile west of the Northway, on the southern
side

To be specific, there are practically thousands of
the aforementioned abiding in perpetual near riot
of wild behavior, indiscriminate coloring, and only
the Good Lord Himself can say what diverse soliciting
of promiscuous cross-fertilization

As I say, these roses, no matter what the apparent
background, training, tropistic tendencies, age,
or color, do not demonstrate the least inclination
toward categorization, specified allegiance, resolute
preference, consideration of the needs of others, or
any other minimal traits of decency

May I point out that I did not assiduously seek out
this colony, as it were, and that these certain
unidentified roses remain open to viewing even by
children, with or without suitable supervision

http://www.poemhunter.com/june-jordan/poems/
Sites:
http://www.physics.unh.edu/observatory/NEFAF
http://www.now.org/
http://feministing.com/
http://www.graylagcabins.com/
http://alexandergrant.blogspot.com/
http://sunkengardenpoetry.org/
History:
0614
1926 - W. B. Yeats composes "Among School Children"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/among-school-children
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
1938- Dorothy Lathrop wins the 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottwinners/caldecottmedal
http://50watts.com/Forgotten-Illustrator-Dorothy-P-Lathrop
1940- Auschwitz received its first victims, a transport of 728 Poles
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/
http://rense.com/general62/meth.htm
1940 -the German army began its occupation of Paris
http://www.pdmpantiqueprints.com/store/By-Subject-Historical-Genre/The-Occupation-of-Paris-1814/prod_2154.html
http://www.funtasticus.com/2008/07/03/paris-during-the-wwii-occupation-and-nowadays/
1964- Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters boarded their bus "Further" (sometimes “Furthur”) for their first trip,
http://www.furthur.net/tour
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/kesey.html

Bonus Poem:
‘For my poems, written so young,’

For my poems, written so young,
I’d not dreamed I was a poet,
like drops from the fountain flung,
like sparks from a rocket,

that burst into the realm of true
sleep, and incense, like tiny demons,
for my poems about death and youth,
– for my unread sermons! –

scattered in dusty stores, in line,
where, un-purchased, they are dumb,
for my poems, like precious wine,
a time will come.

Marína Tsvetáeva (1892-1941)
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/ClearVoices.htm#_Toc283997685

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