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Strafford Notes, 22 July, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013 8:10:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Start making plans or the week's poetry events...Friday, Chichester Public Library; Sunday, Merimasck County Nursing Home (Boscawren); Monday nextr, Hill Library, Strafford, NH.

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July 22
Events:
July 22 Cambridge ,Mass Roadpoet Reading hosted by The Stone Soup Poets at7pm to 10pm. Out Of The Blue Art Gallery, on Propect St in Cambridge Mass.,
http://www.outoftheblueartgallery.com/
Coming Up-
7/31Laconia 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Black Out Poetry in Rotary Hall ,Laconia Public Library,
You’re a Poet and you don’t know it! Come to Black Out Poetry and choose words from ordinary newspaper and magazine articles to make them say exactly what’s on your mind or in your heart.
http://www2.youseemore.com/laconia/calendar.asp?cal=23&detail=1739&date=7/31/2013
Born:
0722

Rev. William A. Spooner (1844 – 08/29/1930) English religious lesdyxic
http://fun-with-words.com/spoon_history.html
Emma Lazarus (1849-Nov. 10, 1887 ) US Jewish Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/lazarus-emma
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3295/3295-h/3295-h.htm
Janusz Korczak, /Henryk Goldszmit (1878 – Aug 1942) Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician,
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/KORCZAK/default.htm
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/events/event_details.asp?cid=100
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890 – 01/22/1995) US matriarch
http://www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/iddrc/
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898 – 03/13/1943) US poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, a long epic poem on the Civil War,. Benét received two Pulitzer prizes for his poetry.
The Innovator
(A Pharaoh Speaks.)
I said, "Why should a pyramid
Stand always dully on its base?
I'll change it! Let the top be hid,
The bottom take the apex-place!"
And as I bade they did.

The people flocked in, scores on scores,
To see it balance on its tip.
They praised me with the praise that bores,
My godlike mind on every lip.
— Until it fell, of course.

And then they took my body out
From my crushed palace, mad with rage,
— Well, half the town WAS wrecked, no doubt —
Their crazy anger to assuage
By dragging it about.

The end? Foul birds defile my skull.
The new king's praises fill the land.
He clings to precept, simple, dull;
HIS pyramids on bases stand.
But — Lord, how usual!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/312/312-h/312-h.htm#link2H_4_0031
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/sbenet.htm
Alexander Calder (1898 – 11/11/1976) US sculptor - mobiles and innovative wire structures
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129454/
Edward Dahlberg (1900 – 02/28/1977) US writer
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edward-dahlberg
Bob Dole (1923 – ) US senator (KS), presidential candidate
http://www.bobdole.org/
Sister Madonna Buder (1930 – ) US nun and triathlete ,
http://www.amazon.com/Sister.-Madonna-Buder/e/B003RSX3B0
Thomas Eugene Tom Robbins (1936 – ) US Writer – novel-Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
http://www.salon.com/2000/03/09/robbins_2/
George Clinton (1940 – ) US Singer, funk legend (1994 single 'Bop Gun'), Parliament, Funkadelic, (1978 album 'One Nation Under A Groove').
http://georgeclinton.com/
Bobby Sherman (1945 – ) US singer, actor, policeman (1969 US No.3 single 'Little Woman'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792385/
Lee A. Siegel (1945-US novelist and professor of religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. 1999 Love in a Dead Language
, http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Siegel/e/B001ITWWGC
Don Henley,1947- US singer, songwriter, and drummer with The Eagles, 1977 'Hotel California', plus 5 US No.1 albums. The Eagles 'Greatest Hits 1971-1975' is the second biggest selling album in the world with sales over 30m. Henley had the 1985 solo single 'The Boys of Summer'.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377118/?ref_=sr_1
Albert Lawrence Einstein Brooks (1947- ) , US voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.1987- Academy Award Broadcast News.
http://www.albertbrooks.com/
S. E. Susan Eloise Hinton, 1948 - American author The Outsiders
http://www.amazon.com/S.-E.-Hinton/e/B000AQ1R5G
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386023/
http://www.sehinton.com/

Rufus Wainwright, 1973- Canadian / American, singer-songwriter, son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and the brother of Martha Wainwright. 2003 album ‘Want One’, 2005 album ‘Want Two’, 2007 album 'Release the Stars.'
http://www.rufuswainwright.com/
Passed:
0722
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) American Poet
LEONAINIE
LEONAINIE - Angels named her;
And they took the light
Of the laughing stars and framed her
In a smile of white;
And they made her hair of gloomy
Midnight, and her eyes of bloomy
Moonshine, and they brought her to me
In the solemn night. -
In a solemn night of summer,
When my heart of gloom
Blossomed up to greet the comer
Like a rose in bloom;
All forebodings that distressed me
I forgot as Joy caressed me -
(Lying Joy! that caught and pressed me
In the arms of doom!)
Only spake the little lisper
In the Angel-tongue;
Yet I, listening, heard her whisper, -
"Songs are only sung
Here below that they may grieve you -
Tales but told you to deceive you -
So must Leonainie leave you
While her love is young."
Then God smiled and it was morning.
Matchless and supreme
Heaven's glory seemed adorning
Earth with its esteem:
Every heart but mine seemed gifted
With the voice of prayer, and lifted
Where my Leonainie drifted
From me like a dream

http://www.jameswhitcombriley.com/leonainie.htm
Carl Sandburg (01/06/1878 –1967) US writer Jazz Fantasia
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sandburg-carl
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne , December 28, 1932 - 1990) Argentine /Mexican author.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mpuig.htm
Leon Shenandoah c. 1915-1996 -, U.S. Native American leader of the Onondaga Indians
http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/shenandoah.html
Sacha Distel (Jan 29,1933-2004, French singer and guitarist 1970 single 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.' As a professional jazz guitarist he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett.
http://www.sachadistel.com/spip.php?lang=en
Sites:
http://www.hudson.org/
http://worklifefit.com/blog/2013/07/the-joyful-honor-of-being-one-of-the-40-over-40-to-watch
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130612065727-251749025-three-things-i-ve-learned-from-warren-buffett?trk=NUS_UNIU_PEOPLE_FOLLOW-megaphone-fllw
http://www.themusichall.org/
http://www.davidsurette.com/Home.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Thomas/e/B001ITTM4W
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151626871109003.1073741843.44115954002&type=1
History:
0722
1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion/historicalheros/historyvsbraveheart.html
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada. predated the Lewis and Clark expedition by 10 years.
http://www.canadiana.ca/hbc/person/mackenzie_e.html
1796- a party of surveyors led commissioned by General Moses Cleaveland arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, founding a new town—Cleaveland, Ohio.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:.filreq(.field(NUMBER+.band(g4084c+pm006872))+.field(COLLID+pmmap))
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/art-music-and-film/resources/america-beautiful-1893
1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
http://www.newsinhistory.com/blog/wiley-post-first-solo-flight-around-world-1933
1941 - Eugene O'Neill presented the just-finished manuscript of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" to his wife, Carlotta on their twelfth wedding anniversary
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=7/22/2013

Bonus Poem:
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown
I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold
Life is at once too soft and too hard
I have sore troubles mingled with joys

Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry
And in pleasure many a grief endure
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged
All at once I dry up and grow green

Thus I suffer love's inconstancies
And when I think the pain is most intense
Without thinking, it is gone again.

Then when I feel my joys certain
And my hour of greatest delight arrived
I find my pain beginning all over once again.
by Delmira Agustini

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