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Strafford Notes, 21 July, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013 12:25:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Note some of the poetry events in early August

July 21
Some Aug Events:
Aug 1, Rochester 6:ishWriter’s night at the Portable Pantry ,Hanson St.
Aug 2, Exeter– 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse –, Features followed by open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net )
Aug 6 Moultonborough (1st Tuesday of the month) -7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library, Moultonboro – Featureing followed by open mic (476-8895) 476-2630)
Aug 6,13,20,27 Portland (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
August 8,15,22,29, Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )

Born:
0721
Matthew Prior (1664 – 09/18/1721) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/prior-matthew
http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/prior/
Vasile Alecsandri (1821-Aug 22, 1890) Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs
http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poeti/alecsandri.php
from The Hora of Unity

Let's join hands,
Those with Romanian hearts
To go round the dance of brotherhood
On Romania's land!

Hey mountainer, hey neighbor
Come join me
Unity through life
And brotherhood through death!

A single man is weak
During sorrows and pains
Where there are more
The enemy can't come!

We carry the same name
The world knows our name
I am your brother and you are mine
We have the same heart beating in our chests!

And so that the sacred sun
Shall shine upon a day of celebration
Upon our brotherly dance
On the Romanian fields!
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/hora-unirii-dance-unity.html-0

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland 1865- December 23, 1924 English Georgian Journalist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/crosland-thomas-william-hodgson
Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865 – 17 February 1947) British writer -supernatural and scientific romances
http://alangullette.com/lit/shiel/
Hans Fallada 1893-Feb 5,1947 German writer
http://hansfallada.com/
Harold Hart Crane (1899) US Poet The Bridge (1930)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172019
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 07/02/1961) US writer For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/hemingway-ernest-miller
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/vc006671.jpg
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm
Alec Derwent Hope ( 1907 –13 July 2000) Australian poet and essayist ; also a critic, teacher and academic.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Hope.5poems.html
Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 12/31/1980) Canadian writer, social criticUnderstanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mcluhan.htm
Isaac Stern (1920 – 09/22/2001) US musician (a good one)
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Article.aspx?id=4294967976
Mohammed Dib 1920-2003 Prolific Algerian French-language novelist, short story writer, and poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/dib.htm
John C Gardner, (1933 –Sept 14,1982) scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/john-gardner/
Tess Gallagher 1943 American poet, essayist, author and playwright.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/red-poppy/
Wendy Cope (1945 – ) English writer -poet
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/wendy-cope

Cat Stevens Steven Demetre Georgiou or Yusuf Islam. 1947- Singer/Songwriter
http://www.songfacts.com/artist-cat_stevens.php
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (1948- ), cartoonist ,, creator of the Doonesbury comic strip. Doonesbury w Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975.
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3190191-the-patricians-garretson-beekman-garry-trudeau-1948---editorial-c
Michael Connelly, 1956 - American author
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-connelly/
http://www.michaelconnelly.com/
Passed:
0721
Robert Burns (01/25/1759 –1796) Scottish poet national poet of Scotland
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/burns-robert
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/21/2013

Mr. Daniel Lambert, (1773- 1809), the heaviest man that ever lived; at 739 pounds.
http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/july/21.htm
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 –1899) Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic."
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/
Owen Wister, 1860- 1938 - American author From How Doth The Simple Spelling-Bee Preface
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Wister%2C%20Owen%2C%201860-1938
D. W. Griffith (01/22/1875 –1948) US director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000428/
Kenneth Lewis Roberts Dec 8, 1885-1957 US author of historical novels Pulitzer Prize Winner (1957).
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/klroberts.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Kenneth-Roberts/e/B000AQ8RTA/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Basil Rathbone June 13, 1892-1967 Brit –American Actor(Sherlock Holmes)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/
Jack Gaughan (Sept24, 1930 -, 1985) was an American science fiction artist and illustrator who won the Hugo Award
http://alphecca.com/archives/gaughan.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/oop-lotr.html
Stanley Shapiro (July 16, 1925 –1990) American screenwriter and producer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788630/
Macha Louis Rosenthal, (1917 – July 21, 1996) American critic/,poet and editor.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Nonfiction-/378/p.html?_cnid-author=1419748495%3AMacHa+L.+Rosenthal&_dmpt=US_Nonfiction_Book&_pcategid=378&_pcatid=4&_trksid=p5360.c0.m2000019
Alan Shepard November 18, 1923-1998 Astronaut
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Alanshephardgrave.jpg
Jerry Goldsmith (02/10/1929 –/2004) US composer classic movies and television shows ‘Star Trek’, ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’
http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldsmith.shtml

Long John Baldry Jan 12,1941 -2005 brit blues artist/ one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/long-john-baldry-mn0000827367
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049827/

Alan Stephens, (December 19, 1925 -2009 ) US Poet and Scholar
In the Habitat of the Magpie

Oh, we will get out of here
Where everything’s impure, not clear,
Where, as they say, it’s all shades of gray,
Won’t we, old self (though time I fear
Is getting on …) — like the magpie
We saw springing up today
Lightly from his putrid meal
On the pavement, his feathers
Such a fresh black and white.

http://alanstephenspoems.com/
Sites:
http://jacobpolley.com/news/poem_smoke/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_default
http://hauntingwhisper.net/
http://ovsmag.com/index.php?id=1
http://www.cloudnet.com/~renfest/page2.htm
http://www.google.com/glass/start/
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114074403

History:
0721
1861,, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside Manassas, Virginia, in the first major engagement of the Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:.filreq(.field(NUMBER+.band(g3884m+cw0564200))+.field(COLLID+milmap))
1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html
1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2728000/2728761.stm
1987, Guns N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records-best-selling US debut album of all time
http://gunsnroses.com/

Bonus Poem:

FREEDOM
Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again!
I have been long a slave, and now am free;
I have been tortured, and am eased of pain;
I have been blind, and now my eyes can see;
I have been lost, and now the way lies plain;
I have been caged, and now I hold the key;
I have been mad, and now at last am sane;
I am wholly I, that was but a half of me.
So, a free man, my dull proud path I plod,
Who, tortured, blind, mad, caged, was once a God.
by "Jan Struther"
(Joyce Maxtone Graham, 1901-1953)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/betsinda/betsinda.html#26

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