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Strafford Notes, July 2, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 1:25:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Apologies....been tooling around the far reaches of the Amazon for the last few days. I'm home...at least temeporarily

July 2
Events:
Moultonborough (1st Tuesday of the month) -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro – Featureing The Langs followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)
Gordon wrote” … at the Moultonborough Public Library, in a no-holds-barred 3-round contest, Gordon and Cheryl Lang will feature before an open mic. The fun begins at 7:30. The ambulance arrives at 7:35.”
July 2 Portland (Every Tuesday), Port Veritas . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101 All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic 7:30 Feature -. . 8:30) . Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street Portland Enjoy a great room, excellent food and a full bar. Gil Helmick 400.7543www.portveritas.com
Updates/ Correction/ Events July
July 2 Portland Me.at 7:00pm at Bull Feeney's Port Veritas NorthBeast Regional Slam
July 11, Derry: Poet X.J. Kennedy appears at the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series. Hyla Brook Poet Midge Goldberg will also read. The program, held at the Robert Frost Farm, 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28) in Derry, begins at 6:30pm and concludes with an Open Mic from 7:30-8:30pm. Free and open to the public.
July 25, 2013,Derry Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet appears at a special the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Reading Series. 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28) begins at special time at 7pm with Q&A concludes with an Open Mic from 7:30-8:30pm. Free and open to the public.
For further information, email Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com, http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
Wolfboro, - 7-9pm - The Country Bookseller, Durgin Stables, N. Main St., Wolfeboro - Poets in the Attic –OUTONTHELAWN! open mike (poetsintheattic.gmail.com or 539-4472) Our gracious hosts Gordon and Cheryl have suggested that the event will be held ,and the location and details will be announced .
Born:
0702
Thomas Cranmer (1489- 21-Mar-1556) First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
Compiled The Book of Common Prayer
http://www.stpeter.org/cranmer.html
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825 – May 12, 1903) American critic author and poet.
THE SKY

THE SKY is a drinking-cup,
That was overturned of old,
And it pours in the eyes of men
Its wine of airy gold.

We drink that wine all day,
Till the last drop is drained up,
And are lighted off to bed
By the jewels in the cup!

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/melodies-and-catches/
Hugh Rankin (1878-Jan 3,1956) artist
http://www.dbr.nu/sf/artists/sf_details_2011.php?id=170
http://mchaneyrobertehoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/illustrators-of-robert-e-howard-weird_18.html
Hermann Hesse (1887 – 08/09/1962)) German poet and novelist Nobel Prize for literature 1946
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381568/
Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 01/24/1993) US Supreme Court
http://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall
Wayne Woodard, (Hannes Bok) 1914- 11 April 1964 US Fantasy novelist& artist
http://www.pulpartists.com/Bok.html
Wislawa Szymborska ( 1923-1-Feb-2012) Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize for Lit 1996
From Cassandra

Now I remember clearly
how people, seeing me, broke off mid-sentence.
Their laughter stopped.
They moved away from each other.
Children ran towards their mothers.
I didn't even know their vague names.
And that song about a green leaf--
nobody ever finished singing it in front of me.

I loved them.
But I loved them from a height.
from above life.
from the future.
Where it's always empty
and where it's easy to see death.
I am sorry my voice was harsh.
Look at yourselves from a distance, I cried,
look at yourselves from a distance of stars.
They heard and lowered their eyes.

http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/szymborska/cassandra.html
http://www.technion.ac.il/~gever/ttruelovee.pdf
Passed:
0702
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (06/28/1712 –1778) French writer, philosopher, political theorist
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+07011754+&CNT=10+records+per+page
William Cosmo Monkhouse (03/18/1840 –1901) English writer /poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/william-cosmo-monkhouse/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40878/40878-h/40878-h.htm
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (12/17/1853 –1917) English actor, writer
http://www.biography.com/people/herbert-beerbohm-tree-37158
Amelia Earhart (07/24/1898 –1937) US pilot
http://www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/AmeliaEarhart/AEBiography.htm
Ernest Hemingway (07/21/1899 –1961) US writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hemingway-ernest-miller
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/2/2013
Vladimir Nabokov (04/22/1899 –1977) Russian-American writer
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n11/vladimir-nabokov/the-university-poem
James Stewart (05/20/1908 –/1997) US actor
http://www.jimmy.org/biography
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Jimmy/jimmy-poem.htm

from Beau

And there are nights when I think I feel him
Climb upon our bed and lie between us
And I pat his head.
And there are nights when I think
I feel that stare
And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair,
But he's not there
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-10/news/vw-2722_1_jimmy-stewart
Mario Puzo (10/15/1921 –1999) US writer (The Godfather)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mpuzo.htm
Sites:
http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36098/36098-h/36098-h.htm
http://www.leegutkind.com/
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/
http://allpoetry.com/

History:
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1881- Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield
http://www.vitalstatistics.info/sub-category2.asp?cid=3&scid=561
1947 -an object ["flying-saucer" ] supposedly fell from the sky over Roswell, New Mexico.
http://www.roswellufomuseum.com/
1964- the Civil Rights Act was signed into law in America.
http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/1964.htm
1990 - Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress, the first of the Easy Rawlins detective novels,, published
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608859/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Mosley/e/B000APHE2C

Bonus Poem:

Tabby
You played upon the driveway,
You tapped the leaves’ dry skin
Your brother blocked the cat flap
To stop you bounding in.
I finished with the paper,
Its cartoons and its cares.
I walked in the bright hallway.
You sat upon the stairs.
How had you crossed the kitchen?
When had the flap slammed flat?
You stared at me unblinking.
Death is a quiet cat.
-Alison Brackenbury
(Published in Bricks and Ballads, Carcanet, 2004)
http://www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk/

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