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Strafford Notes, 21 June, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013 8:24:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Here comes the summer!!!!!!

June 21_Summer!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130621-summer-solstice-2013-longest-day-sun-earth-space-science/
Events:
June 21, 2013 NY,NY. 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 http://www.pw.org/magazine
June -July 7 Hampton Beach http://www.hamptonbeach.org/sandcastle-competition.cfm
Born:
0621
Martha Washington (1732 – 05/22/1802 or 06/02/1802)US First Lady (1)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/martha-dandridge-custis-washington
William Edmonstoune Aytoun, (1813- Aug. 4, 1865) Scot Vict Prof, poet & law man
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10945/10945-h/10945-h.htm
Françoise Quoirez Sagan (1935- Sept24, 2004 ) French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sagan.htm
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839- 1908) Brazilian novelist and poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/machado.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20080625042658/http:/www.plcs.umassd.edu/pdfs/plcs13_14_intro.pdf
Sir John Rhys (1840 – 17 Dece 1915) Welsh scholar
http://books.google.com/books?id=C00O1ZYs0pAC&printsec=frontcover
http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-RHYS-JOH-1840.html
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (1850 – June 11, 1941) American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/beard/ffhb/index.htm
Victor Gustave Plarr (, 1863–Jan28, 1929) English poet; Epitaphium Citharistriae.
http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 – 06/01/1971)US theologian
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/mar/26/what-you-can-learn-from-reinhold-niebuhr/
Al Hirschfeld 1903-Jan 20,2003 Pen and ink caricaturist
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARThirschfeld.htm
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 04/15/1980) French existential writer
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jean-Paul_Sartre/
Mary McCarthy (1912- 10/25/1989) ).US critic and novelist The Group (1963) Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957).
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-McCarthy/e/B000AQ6OW2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1371726249&sr=8-1
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marymcc.htm
Maureen Stapleton (1925 – 03/13/2006) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822972/
Françoise Sagan (1935 – 09/24/2004) French writer Bonjour Tristesse
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francoise_sagan.html
Ray Davies (1944 – ) English singer, songwriter (Kinks)
http://www.raydavies.info/www/main.php?content=news
Adam Zagajewski (1945).French/American/ Polish New Wave poet, novelist, and essayist
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/343
Ian McEwan (1948- ) Eng Novelist.
http://www.amazon.com/Ian-McEwan/e/B000AQ1USU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1371726209&sr=8-1
Jane Urquhart, 1949 Canadian novelist and poet.
The Baroque Bed

From the framed centre
a cloth folds
its golden threads
brush the floor

brocade lambs graze
unicorns prance
a shepherdess in the shorn
world loses
her slipper in the chaos

white peacock
feathers at the edge
knots and tassels
dance in the air

they call this passion

I am lost in the fabric
smothered by your private furniture

I know the loom that dreamed this bed
From: The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan. The Porcupine's Quill, Inc., 1995. pp.13
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/urquhart/index.htm

John Agard ( 1949- ) Guyana poet, playwright, children’s writer Alternative Anthem
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=14595
Anne Carson (1950). Canadian poet Short Talks (1992) Eros the Bittersweet (1986), The Autobiography of Red (1998), and Nox (2010). Antigonick (2012
Guy Berkeley Berke Breathed 1957- Cartoonist of Bloom County
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/berkeley_breathed.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106455/bio
Pierre M. Omidyar 1967- Founder of eBay
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/omi0bio-1
Passed:
0621
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Macchiavelli (05/03/1469 –1527) Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer (comedies, carnival songs, and poetry) ;founder of modern political science , diplomat, political philosopher, (The Prince) playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic.

sonnet
-written to Francesco Vettori in January 1515:
Many times the young Archer
had already tried to wound my breast
with his arrows, because he takes pleasure
in showing contempt for and inflicting injury on others;
and although those arrows were sharp and fierce,
so much so that a diamond couldn’t have withstood the blow,
nonetheless they found such a resistant target
that he had little regard for all their power.
So he, full of indignation and fury,
In order to give proof of his exalted excellence,
Changed quiver, changed arrow and bow;
and he fired one with such violence
that I still grieve over my wounds,
and I confess and acknowledge his power.

http://www.emachiavelli.com/history_copy(1).htm

John Skelton (1460-1529) Eng tutor & Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/skelton-john
Bertha von Suttner June 9,1843 -1914 Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1905/suttner-bio.html
http://archive.org/stream/laydownyourarmsa00suttuoft/laydownyourarmsa00suttuoft_djvu.txt
James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 –1934) American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction - three Topper novels,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10338435
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16634/16634.txt
Smedley Butler, July 30, 1881-1940 US Soldier, Medal of Honor Recipient
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbutlerSD.htm
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (Oct 16,1956–1992;Bengali poet. -revolutionary and romantic poetry.
http://www.poemhunter.com/rudra-mohammad-shahidullah/
http://www.du.ac.bd/halls_of_residence/hall_details.php?bodyid=HSH
John Lee Hooker (08/22/1915 –/2001) US blues singer
http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/people/johnlee_hooker.htm
Carroll "Archie Bunker" O'Connor (08/02/1924 –2001) US actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005279/
http://www.archiebunkerquotes.com/1.html
http://www.archiebunkerquotes.com/3.html
George Axelrod June 9 ,1922 -2003 US screenwriter The Seven Year Itch
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043480/
Leon Uris 3-Aug-1924 -2003 Novelist Battle Cry
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/uris.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Leon-Uris/e/B000APTIWQ
Mary Ellen Solt (July 8, 1920-2007), poet and poetry critic –concrete poetry
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03solt.html?_r=0
http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Solt-Mary-Ellen_Forsythia.html
Sites:
http://www.dltk-bible.com/index.htm
http://www.onbeing.org/blog
http://livingmontessorinow.com/
http://www.orangecountychoppers.com/bike-customizer
http://www.iwf.org/
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/
History:
0621
1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
http://www.cruisehalifax.ca/our-port/history.html
1805 - Great Stone Face Mt in NH
http://www.ebay.com/itm/old-postcard-Great-Stone-Face-in-Franconia-Notch-/380646604310?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item58a04e3e16
1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
http://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/pancho-villa-general-pershing.html
http://cdm16635.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16635coll4/id/3385
http://www.emersonkent.com/history_notes/pancho_villa.htm
1945- Japanese troops were defeated on the Pacific island of Okinawa
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1982- Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published by Norton and Company
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=6/21/2013
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/ss1.htm
Bonus Poem:
From The Look Down (Bungonia)

Vast is the chasm, and in the deep below
Silence has fallen asleep beneath its tree;
Yet we, above the stark declivity,
Still hear the hush of winds we do not know;
For, in the vague that covers all, the slow
Trail of the air, like floating hair flung free,
Draws with the moving earth; which far stars see
As some titanic head swayed to and fro.
Mary Gilmore
http://allpoetry.com/Dame_Mary_Gilmore_DBE

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