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Strafford Notes, 17 July, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:56:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

See you at Gibson's tonight! Last month at the old store...new location in August!

July 17
Events:
July 17, 2013 Concord– The Poetry Society of NH . Gibson’s Bookstore, featuring humorist, essayist and poet. Glenn Currie and poet, teacher, and host at The Back Room at The Mill in Bristol Ivy Page. The reading starts at 7pm. Open Mic follows Everyone is invited. Newcomers are encouraged. 27 South Main St ….info: Host Don Kimball at prisdon.comcast.net.
July 17, 2013 Franconia NH, The Frost Place Conference on Poetry--- a week at “intensive poetry camp” frost.frostplace.org
July 17, 2013 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Inspiration Panel Reading- Ryan Murphy, Nancy Richardson, and Bruce Willard read at The Frost Place158 Ridge RoadFranconia, NH 03580 Sarah Audsley frost.frostplace.org
Born:
0717
Richard Carew, (1555-Nov 6, 1620) Eng Jacobean Scholar/ MP/Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/carew-anthony-richard
Isaac Watts , 1674 - November 25, 1748 English tutor, writer and minister Divine Songs for the Use of Children, published in 1715. Art of Reading and Writing English came out in 1721
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/watts-isaac
http://www.english.uga.edu/wblake/SONGS/hymns/watts.html
John Jacob Astor (1763- 03/29/1848) American business magnate, merchant ,& investor
http://www.museum-im-astorhaus.de/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1371/1371-h/1371-h.htm
Ernest Percival Rhys (1859 – 25 May 1946) English writer - essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays. , founding editor of the Everyman's Library series.
http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-RHYS-ERN-1859.html
Words
WORDS, like fine flowers, have their colors too:
What do you say to crimson words and yellow;
And what to opal, emerald, pale blue?
And elvish gules? -- he is a glorious fellow.
Think of the purple hung in Elsinore,
Or call it black, and close your eyes to see;
Go look for amber then on Lochlyn shore
And drag a sunbeam out of Arcady.
And who of Rosamund or Rosalind
Can part the rosy-petalled syllables?
For women's names keep murmuring like the wind
The hidden things that none for ever tells.
Last, to forgo soft beauty, take the sword,
And see the blue steel redden at the word.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes 1888- February 17, 1970. Israeli writer- Hebrew novelist and short-story writer; shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/agnon.html
Erle Stanley Gardner (/1889 – 03/11/1970) US writer
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gardner.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306916/
James Cagney 1899- March 30,1986 US Actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000010/?ref_=sr_1
Christina Stead (1902 – 03/31/1983) Australian writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cstead.htm
Art Linkletter (1912 – 05/26/2010) Canadian humorist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512939/
Michael Gilbert 1912-February 8, 2006, English mystery writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mgilbert.htm
http://www.goodreads.com/series/71593-inspector-hazelrigg
Christiane Rochefort (1917- April 24, 1998) French writer, social critic, and feminist,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/croche.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733999/
Donald Alfred Davie (1922-Sept 18,1995) English Movement poet, and literary critic.
http://www.google.hr/search?hl=hr&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Donald+Davie%22
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/memory-maps-six-poems-donald-davie/
Donald Sutherland (1934 – ) Canadian-American actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000661/
P.D.Q. Bach Peter Schickele (1935-)American composer and humorist
http://www.schickele.com/
Spencer Davis,(1941- )Brit Rock- guitar, (1966 single 'Keep On Running' 1967 single 'Gimme Some Lovin').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/spencer-davis-mn0000003981
Camilla Parker Bowles 1947- brit
http://en.over-blog.com/A_biography_of_Camilla_Parker_Bowles-1228321794-art339177.html
David Hasselhoff (1952 – ) US actor
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/david-hasselhoff/146474
Mattie Stepanek ( 1990- 22-Jun-2004) US Child poet
HTTP://WWW.CHIONLINE.ORG/EVENTS/TRIBUTE_POEMS.PHP

Passed:
0717
Adam Smith (06/05/1723 –1790) Scottish economist The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776).
http://www.adamsmith.org/adam-smith
George William Russell ( April 10,1867 –1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.);Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter.; also a mystical writer
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16615/16615-h/16615-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16616/16616-h/16616-h.htm#DESIRE
Jelly Roll Morton (09/20/1885 –1941) US pianist
http://library.thinkquest.org/18602/history/classic/fmorton/fmorton.html
Billie Holiday (04/07/1915 –1959) US singer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/billie-holiday-mn0000079016
http://www.shmoop.com/day-lady-died/billie-holiday-symbol.html
Ty Cobb (12/18/1886 –1961) US baseball player
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=cobbty01
John Coltrane (09/23/1926 –1967) US jazz composer, musician Worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. Released the 1964 album ‘A Love Supreme’.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-coltrane-mn0000175553
Mickey Spillane (03/09/1918 –2006) US writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/spillane.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818765/
Gene Van Troyer, ( 1950 -2009) science fiction writer and poet http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/gene-van-troyer-1950-2009/
Sea Change

In shipness absolute,
the old whaler ashore and sealess
deckroll-walks the stable dock
to the fence-edge,
stares into the stilly dark of low tide.
His thoughts are a sailly windiness
and, low to the whalable waters,
the foamsplash and sparclatter
of remembrance, fall home.
This life is chanceless. There,
in memory’s sea, the corded trajectory
of charge-thrown harpoons, whaled,
the doried slickered sailors riding the froth
near the death-thrash, the soon
resistless mammoth; that
was the livingest way. But here, now,
workless pensioner oceanable but in dreams,
sea-blood churning wakely in his veins,
the old man idles away
until fogly swallowed the harbor lights
wink out one by one.
http://www.poemhunter.com/gene-van-troyer/poems/
Sites:
http://www.strathamfair.com/
http://www.nhstateparks.org/
http://www.writersdigest.com/
http://rockwaterandlight.blogspot.com/
http://www.nh.gov/nharts/
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
http://pages2type.tumblr.com/
http://digboston.com/

History:
0717
1754- King's College opened The Anglican academy became Columbia University.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:.field(NUMBER+.band(pan+6a11877))
1841-
British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=punch
1895- a lampoon by Twain entitled “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.” published
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html
1914- Amy Lowell hosted an "Imagist" dinner party in London,
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/17/2013
1931- Virginia Woolf finished The Waves
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201091.txt
1936-The Spanish Civil War began
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:.field(DOCID+es0031)
1938-
Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves New York for LA, wound up in Ireland
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Douglas-Wrong-Way-Corrigans-flying-feat-remembered-75-years-later---VIDEO-204865811.html
Bonus Poem:
From Intimate
I will tell you the dreams of my life
On this deepest of blue nights.
In your hands my soul will tremble,
On your shoulders my cross will rest.

The summits of life are lonely,
So lonely and so cold! I locked
My yearnings inside, and all reside
In the ivory tower I raised.

Today I will reveal a great mystery;
Your soul has the power to penetrate me.
In silence are vertigos of the abyss:
I hesitate, I am sustained in you.

I die of dreams; I will drink truth,
Pure and cool, from your springs.
I know in the well of your breast
Is a fountain that vanquishes my thirst.

And I know that in our lives, this
Is the inexpressible miracle of reflection…
In the silence, my soul arrives at yours
As to a magnificent mirror.

Imagine the love I dreamed
In the glacial tomb of silence!
Larger than life, larger than dream,
A love imprisoned beneath an azure without end.

Imagine my love, love which desires
Impossible life, superhuman life,
You who know how it burdens and consumes,
Dreams of Olympus bound by human flesh.

And when met with a soul which found
A bit of azure to bathe its wings,
Like a great, golden sun, or a shore
Made of light, your soul opened:
Delmira Agustini
http://hellopoetry.com/-delmira-agustini/

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