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Strafford Notes, 24 May, 2-013
Monday, June 24, 2013 7:54:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

The heat wave continues.........

June 24
Events:
June 24, 2013 Franconia Terry Blackhawk Poetry Reading at The Frost Place. 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm2 Hours - Events are free and open to the public - The Frost Place158 Ridge Road Franconia, NH 03580 frost.frostplace.org http://www.frostplace.org/
Born:
0624
San Juan de la Cruz St. John of the Cross Juan de Yepes y Alvarez (1542-1591),Spanish poet and Carmelite priest, La Noche oscura del alma (published 1618; transl. as Dark Night of the Soul)
http://www.cin.org/saints/jcross-merton.html
John Archibald Campbell (1811-12-Mar-1889) US Supreme Court Justice, 1853-61
http://www.oyez.org/justices/john_a_campbell
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 03/08/1887) American Congregationalist preacher/ writer
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30392/30392-h/30392-h.htm
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831 – 09/29/1910) US writer
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/876/876-h/876-h.htm
Gustavus Swift 1839- 29 Mar 1903. American manufacturer and inventor
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog14/transcript/page03.html
Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842 –?1914) US writer- journalist, short story writer, and The Devil's Dictionary
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bierce-ambrose
Jack Dempsey (1895 – 05/31/1983) US boxer
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/dempsey/
Gene Austin (1900 – January 24, 1972) American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042386/
Ernesto Sábato, 1911- 30-Apr-2011 Argentinian physics professor, novelist, and winner of the 1984 Cervantes Prize; Angel of Darkness
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/65863/
Norman Cousins (1912 – 11/30/1990) US writer journalist (The Saturday Review), essayist (Who Speaks for Man?) ,world peace advocateand promoter of holistic healing
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/cousins.html
Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 – 08/20/2001) English astronomer, mathematician, proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe; coining the term "Big Bang" in the last of those talks.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hoyle.htm
John Ciardi (1916 – 03/30/1986) US writer translator (Dante's Inferno) and etymologist (A Browser's Dictionary, A Second Browser's Dictionary and Good Words to You), 1916. poet, critic, and translator
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/242214
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/ciardi.php
Yves Bonnefoy 1923- French poet, essayist, translator, and art historian Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bonnef.htm
David McTaggart (1932-March 23,2001 ) cofounded Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/founders/david-mctaggart/
Anita Desai (1937- ) Bengali-German novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/desai.htm
Lawrence Block( 1938- )US Novelist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088747/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
http://lawrenceblock.wordpress.com/about/
Stephen Dunn (1939- ) US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
Each From Different Heights

That time I thought I was in love
and calmly said so
was not much different from the time
I was truly in love
and slept poorly and spoke out loud
to the wall
and discovered the hidden genius
of my hands
And the times I felt less in love,
less than someone
were, to be honest, not so different
either.
Each was ridiculous in its own way
and each was tender, yes,
sometimes even the false is tender.
I am astounded
by the various kisses we're capable of.
Each from different heights
diminished, which is simply the law.
And the big bruise
from the longer fall looked perfectly white
in a few years.
That astounded me most of all.
http://www.autostraddle.com/pure-poetry-stephen-dunn-megapost-79823/
Jeff Beck, 1944- British rocker (The Honeydrippers, Jeff Beck Group and The Yardbirds)
http://www.jeffbeck.com/
Robert Reich (1946 – ) US writer, politician
http://robertreich.org/
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (1947) British musician and actor ; drummer and co-founder of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/mick-fleetwood/
Mercedes "Misty" Lackey (1950- ) American author of fantasy novels
http://mercedeslackey.com/
Hope Sandoval Mazzy Star 1966 Singer/Songwriter
http://www.hopesandoval.com/home.shtml
Passed:
0624
Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (April 12, 1550 -1604) ) English peer of the Elizabethan era.
http://theotherpages.org/poems/vere01.html#6
Edward Taylor (1642-1729) New England Puritan minister
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/taylor-edward
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 -1870) Brit poet
A Fragment
They say that poison-sprinkled flowers
Are sweeter in perfume
Than when, untouched by deadly dew,
They glowed in early bloom.

They say that men condemned to die
Have quaffed the sweetened wine
With higher relish than the juice
Of the untampered vine.

They say that in the witch's song,
Though rude and harsh it be,
There blends a wild, mysterious strain
Of weirdest melody.

And I believe the devil's voice
Sinks deeper in our ear
Than any whisper sent from Heaven,
However sweet and clear.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/258/258-h/258-h.htm
Grover Cleveland (03/18/1837 -1908) US President (22, 24)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/gcleveland.html
Sarah Orne Jewett (09/03/1849 -1909) US writer
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/contents.htm
Willy Ley (Oct2, 1906 –1969) Ger-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ley.htm
Westbrook Pegler (08/02/1894 -1969) US writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApeglerW.htm
Rex Warner (1905- 1986) English poet, novelist, translator, and scholar of classical literature
http://deniseharveypublisher.gr/people/rex-warner
Leonid Hurwitz (Aug21, 1917-2008) economist –Mechanism Design Theory
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2007/
Sites:
http://www.conservation-us.org/
http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/index.cfm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8
http://www.etsy.com/
http://thefells.org/
History:
0624
1932- , during the reign of King Prajadhipok a coup ended the absolute monarchy of Siam (present-day Thailand).
http://www.soravij.com/kings.html
1982- Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
1983 -astronaut Sally Ride landed at Edwards Air Force Base aboard the space shuttle Challenger,
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
Bonus:
Peace
(July 28, 1887).
The red‐rose flush fades slowly in the west.
The golden water, basking in the light,
Pales to clear amber and to silver white.
The velvet shadow of a flame‐crowned crest
Lies dark and darker on its shining breast,
Till lonely mere and isle and mountain‐height
Grow dim as dreams in tender mist of night,
And all is tranquil as a babe at rest.
So still! So calm! Will our life’s eve come thus?
No sound of strife, of labour or of pain,
No ring of woodman’s axe, no dip of oar.
Will work be done, and night’s rest earned, for us?
And shall we wake to see sunrise again?
Or shall we sleep, to see and know no more?
Ada Cambridge
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7072&doc.view=print

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