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Strafford Notes, 16 June, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:53:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Happy Father's day, y'all...

to Steve
June 16 –Fathers Day & Bloomsday,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443675404578056291818726864.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~maelduin/firstbloom.html
Events:
Coming-Up
June 21, 2013NYNY. Kundiman's 10th Annual Poetry Retreat Li-Young Lee, Srikanth Reddy, & Lee Ann Roripaugh share work with 2013 Kundiman Retreat Fellows. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow! Start: 7:00 p.m. Fordham Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus Avenue)12th Floor Lounge Directions Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue. Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Asian American Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge http://www.pw.org/magazine
June 23 Manchester - The Shaskeen Pub and Restaurant: The Sunday Stomp: 4 to 8 pm Music, Comedy. Poems and Art…and it's free! Lindsey Coombs Guest poet The River Birds are putting together a 90-minute set of high gear R&B. Rob Pepper will perform a 30 minute set of acoustic music. Host and comedian Millhouse G. will be exhibiting a 15-minute film as a part of the events! . 909 Elm Street, Manchester NH http://www.shaskeenpub.com/
And : July 29: Strafford Hill Library,6:30 Poet, Musician Bob Moore Features ,Open mic,snacks & beverages director.metrocast.net
Born:
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Giovanni Boccaccio, (1313- Dec 21, 1375) Italian writer
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/garland/deweever/B/boccacci.htm
John Cleveland (1613- April 29, 1658) British metaphysical poet ,teacher & Minister
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/cleveland-john
John Wesley 1703 -March 2, 1791 Eng Methodist Divine
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/wesley-john
Adam Smith (1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy
http://mruniversity.com/courses/great-economists-classical-economics-and-its-forerunners
Alaric Alexander Watts (1797 -April 5,1864), British poet and journalist,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Watts,_Alaric_Alexander_(DNB00)
Geronimo, (1829 - Feb 17, 1909) Apache leader
http://www.indians.org/welker/geronimo.htm
Frank Challice Constable (1846 -October 7,1937 ) English lawyer and writer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Frank%20Challice%20Constable&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AFrank%20Challice%20Constable
http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/intellect.htm
Arthur Stanley "Stan" Laurel Jefferson (1890 – 02/23/1965) English comic, actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491048/
Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (Feb 8, 1899 -1970),US musician, singer and songwriter, and one of the first major blues and jazz guitarists - 500 recordings, and left an indelible mark on modern American music.
http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608000968/Lonnie-Johnson.html
Murray Leinster, 1896 –June 8,1976 American author
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0500494/
http://manybooks.net/authors/leinsterm.html
Tapio Hiisivaara (1907-71 ) Finnish writer, journalist, and translator of Eng & Amer suspence
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hiisivaa.htm
Helvi Hämäläinen 1907-98 Finnish writer & poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hhamalai.htm
John Howard Griffin (1920 – Sept9, 1980) American journalist and author,. He wrote about this experience in his 1961 book Black Like Me.
http://www.amazon.com/John-Howard-Griffin/e/B000AP773I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Erich Segal (1937 – 01/17/2010) US writer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/erich-segal/
Joyce Carol Oates (1938 – ) US novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic and dramatist The “Kite” poem
http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Carol-Oates/e/B000APT3DK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1371304824&sr=8-1
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jcoates.htm
http://www.usfca.edu/jco/
David Edward McDaniel (1939 - November 1, 1977) US science fiction author, spy fiction- The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
http://www.manfromuncle.org/mcdanielbystine1.htm
Lamont Dozier 1941 - songwriter producer, songwriter, wrote many hits for Motown records (Dozier-Holland-Dozier) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. "Where Did Our Love Go," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" and "Reach Out I'll Be There."
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lamont-dozier-mn0000106882
2Pac Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971 – 09/13/1996) US rapper, actor -a legend in hip-hop and rap circles for his talent, his violent behavior, and his brutal death. became the first artist to reach number one in the pop charts while serving a prison sentence Library of Congress added his song Dear Mama to the National Registry in 2010
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/tupac-shakur/
http://www.2pac.com/
Derek R. Audette, ( 1971- )Canadian artist and poet
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/
Advice For A Poet
I was asked for advice
from a young poet

“Any advice for an aspiring poet? ”
she asked
“How do I find success? ”

I informed her that the formula
was simple
in explanation
difficult in practice:

Go out and live life - real life.
Drink and smoke too much.
Stand up to be counted
for whatever you believe in
and willingly suffer the consequences of doing so.

Take a few punches and give a few back.
Get a few bloody noses - a few fat lips.
Laugh at death and spit in its face.
Seek out and attempt to understand
both the tragedy and joy of the human experience.
Allow yourself to experience both wild excess
and crippling restraint
and learn and grow from both.

Do this,
or you'll never write anything but shit
that is completely without worth to anyone.
And, if you don't write shit
- if you manage to write magic -
it matters little if you ever find 'success' or not.

Value is not gauged by such things.

(©MMVIII Derek R. Audette)
Passed:
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Anne Killigrew (1660-85) Eng Restoration poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/killigrew-anne

Edwin Dubose Heyward, (August 31, 1885 – 1940) – US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin) wrote poetry and other novels and plays, as well as the children's book The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939).
Landbound

Bring me one breath from the deep salt sea,

Ye vagrant upland airs!

Over your forest and field and lea,

From the windy deeps that have mothered me,

To the heart of one who cares.

Clear to the peace of the sunlit park,

You bring with your evening lull

The vesper song of the meadow lark;

But my soul is sick for the seething dark,

And the scream of a wind-blown gull.

And bring to me from the ocean's breast

No crooning lullaby;

But the shout of a bleak storm-riven crest

As it shoulders up in the sodden West

And hurtles down the sky.

That, breathing deep, I may feel the sweep

Of the wind and the driving rain.

For so I know that my heart will leap

To meet the call of the strident deep,

And will thrill to life again.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16064/16064-h/16064-h.htm
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/PORGY/porgy.html
George Reeves (Jan 5,1914-1959 ) Actor (Television's first Superman, Gone With the Wind)

From "Superman's Song"
[Chorus:]
Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him
Crash Test Dummies Writer(s): Brad Roberts Copyright: Dummies Prod. Inc.

Wernher von Braun (03/23/1912 –1977) German rocket scientist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902042/
Sikandar Ali Wajd (1914–1983) Urdu poet from Aurangabad, Maharashtra India.
http://www.urdupoetry.com/wajd.html
Miguel Piñero (Dec 19, 1946 –1988) playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684102/

Sites:
http://www.songfacts.com/
http://killingthebuddha.com/
http://barclayagency.com/
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/
http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_15
http://www.visitnh.gov/itineraries/nh-brewery-map.pdf
http://www.nhwineryassociation.com/
http://www.pw.org/calendar

History:
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1904 - James Joyce’s Bloomsday, commemorates the day the events of his novel Ulysses take place. http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/notes/index.html
1965- Bob Dylan recorded 'Like A Rolling Stone' at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City
http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/sessions-1.html
1967- The three day Monterey Pop Festival in California began.
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19801/m1/
1976- Soweto uprising
http://libcom.org/history/1976-the-soweto-riots
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/sad/poems.php?id=946659
1980- The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago.

Bonus Poem:
Poem -
Hjerte Syk
means heart sick in Norwegian
means consumed by fire
means bleed all you want but do it outside, not on the kitchen floor
means being fond of details
means hanging from a little rope
means empty side of the bed, pillows swelled in anticipation
means sifting, frayed, wistful, vemodige
and every morning means carry this extra burden to work smoldering chewing through
the breast bone and burning, means christ (kvitekrist) just give me one fucking second to breathe
means daft, dislocated, dangling by a thread, soon oh rabbit-wise source of my angst,
I’ll give you a better name, something in english, something everyone can pronounce.
by Lisa Zaran

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