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Strafford Notes, 13 July, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:36:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

It's a beautiful day in beautiful downtown Manch Vegas, Cow Hampsha.

to tunamelttunafe.
July 13
Events:
July 13,2013, Warner NH ,7:30 Julia Older And Friends –With Sidney Hall, Jr. co-editor with Rodger Martin of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series.; Teacher/ Mezzo-soprano, Pamela Stevens ; & Poet Rodger Martin ;Warner Town Hall located at 5 East Main Street. $8.00, http://www.toryhillauthorsseries.com/julia-older-and-friends.html
Entertainment:
July13,Farmington NH Pat O'Brien & Bradigan will be in concert at the First Congregational Church on Main St. In Farmington NH at 7PM There will be a free will donation at the door. Come have a great time with us! This concert is open to the public, and is not connected to religion or profession of faith
July 13, 14 2013– Rockland, Maine 2013 North Atlantic Blues Festival 70 Lake Avenue,
http://www.northatlanticbluesfestival.com/
http://www.mainebluessociety.com/2013-north-atlantic-blues-festival-rockland-maine.html
Born:
0713
John Parker (1729-Sept 17, 1775). American leader of the Minutemen in the battle on Lexington Green -1775-the first military action in the revolution.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/detr:.field(NUMBER+.band(det+4a29862))
John Clare (1793 – 05/20/1864) English Northamptonshire Peasant Poet
http://johnclaresociety.blogspot.com/
Isaak Babel (1894-Sept 2010), Short story writer and playwright Red Cavalry (1926). Tales of Odessa.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/babel.htm
/Natalia Ginzburg 1916-October 7, 1991 Italian novelist, essayist, translator and playwright,
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nataliag.htm
Wole Soyinka (1934-) Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and critic, Nobel Prize for Lit 1986
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/soyinka.htm
I think it rains
by Wole Soyinka
I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the parch
Uncleave roof-tops of
the mouth, hang
Heavy with knowledge

I saw it raise
The sudden cloud, from ashes.
Settling
They joined in a ring of
grey; within,
The circling spirit.

O it must rain
These closures on the mind, blinding us
In strange despairs, teaching
Purity of sadness.

And how it beats
Skeined transperencies on wings
Of our desires, searing dark longings
In cruel baptisms.

Rain-reeds, practised in
The grace of yielding, yet unbending
From afar, this, your conjugation with my earth
Bares crounching rocks.
© Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka. All rights reserved
http://allpoetry.com/Wole_Soyinka
James Roger McGuinn 1942- Musician Singer/guitarist for The Byrds
http://www.songkick.com/artists/475100-roger-mcguinn
Passed:
0713
Joy Gresham, Helen Joy Davidman; 18 April 1915 –1960) American poet and writer
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/ESSAY-Lost-in-the-shadow-of-C-S-Lewis-fame-2524646.php
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Out+of+My+Bone%3A+The+Letters+of+Joy+Davidman.-a0227196967
http://journey-woman.blogspot.com/2007/07/little-poetry-for-you-davidman.html

Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 - 1987) American poet
http://books.google.com/books?id=KCOYS5Rerr8C&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=The+Trouble+with+Francis&source=bl&ots=FuYRjviOp-&sig=zpFDu-cR_flYAXHoitX9ITy_IOc&hl=en&ei=-9NGSuevMpCINPHqlLkC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
http://www.poemtree.com/poems/Midsummer.htm
Eagle Plain
The American eagle is not aware he is
the American eagle. He is never tempted
to look modest.
When orators advertise the American eagle's
virtues, the American eagle is not listening.
This is his virtue.
He is somewhere else, he is mountains away
but even if he were near he would never
make an audience.
The American eagle never says he will serve
if drafted, will dutifully serve etc. He is
not at our service.
If we have honored him we have honored one
who unequivocally honors himself by
overlooking us.
He does not know the meaning of magnificent.
Perhaps we do not altogether either
who cannot touch him.

from Robert Francis, Collected Poems, 1936-1976, 1976 University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
Copyright 1976 by Robert Francis. All rights reserved.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/177.html

Sites:
http://www.scotsman.com/
http://www.shaskeenpub.com/index.html
http://www.guardiannews.com/
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/
http://roadpoetsnews.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
History:
0713
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
http://justanotherboozeblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-day-in-booze-beer-bottle.html
1798 - William Wordsworth, (1770 - 1850) wrote “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 “
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-wordsworth
http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/go-west-young-man
1865 - P T Barnum's museum burns down
http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archives/museum.htm
1914 - British poet and writer David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence marries Frieda Weekley
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/10984/
http://www.online-literature.com/dh_lawrence/3414/
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
http://www.santuario-fatima.pt/portal/?lang=EN
1939- Frank Sinatra made his first record, with the Harry James Band: "From the Bottom of My Heart."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1963 - Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wynnea01.shtml
1979 - Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/989/steve-renko
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/741/nolan-ryan
1985 - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/live-aid-concert
Bonus Poem:
The Kiss
My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby, you fool!

Before today my body was useless.
Now it's tearing at its square corners.
It's tearing old Mary's garments off, knot by knot
and see - Now it's shot full of these electric bolts.
Zing! A resurrection!

Once it was a boat, quite wooden
and with no business, no salt water under it
and in need of some paint. It was no more
than a group of boards. But you hoisted her, rigged her.
She's been elected.

My nerves are turned on. I hear them like
musical instruments. Where there was silence
the drums, the strings are incurably playing. You did this.
Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped
into fire.
Anne Sexton

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