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Strafford Notes, 25 July, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:39:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Skip forgot the event at the Chichester Library tomorrow night, 7:00 PM.....

July25
Events:
July 25, Concord: B. Eugene McCarthy, co-author with Fran Quinn of Sound Ideas: Hearing and Speaking Poetry, will read from and discuss his book. At 7 p.m., Gibson’s Bookstore (603–224–0562;
www.gibsonsbookstore.com).
July 25, 2013,Derry Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet appears at a special event ;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 thepublic.INFO:
email Robert Crawford at bobik9.aol.com, http://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
July 25,Chicago, Harriet Reading Series: Amanda Ackerman and Luke Daly 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free admission http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
July 25, 2013Manchester SLAM FREE OR DIE presents an open mic and 2013 Northbeast Regional Slam! , 7:00pm - 11:00pm at Milly's Tavern
Something Special In Wolfeboro…
July 25th, South Wolfeboro, Poets in the Attic in the Gallery.-part 1 ; 6 - 8. p.m. Azure Rising, Gallery ,628 South Main, We've been looking for another opportunity for an ekphrastic project …come participate in the discussion of Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon at the gallery , That way, you get a peek at what we're going to challenge ourselves to write about. THEN…July 26 Poets in the Attic in the Gallery. PART 2 7 - 9 p.m. Azure Rising, Gallery ,628 South Main ,Ekphrastic poetry based on what we saw in the Gallery the night before,…We are welcome to bring snacks and beverages to share, as long as we are tidy, respectful, and clean up. There are small collection of chairs, but if you have folding chairs that won't damage her beautiful floors, please bring them .Info 539-4472 or poetsintheattic.gmail.com. Gallery website http://azurerisinggallery.wordpress.com/, or https://www.facebook.com/AzureRisingGallery

Born:
0725
John Newton (1725-1807) Eng. Hymnist
http://www.texasfasola.org/biographies/johnnewton
Henry Knox, 1750 – 1806 American general
http://knoxmuseum.org/knoxbio.html
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (1829- 11 February 1862 ) English artists' model, poet and artist
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/siddal/
http://www.eighthsquare.com/esiddal.html
A Silent Wood

by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my knees.

In thy darkest shadow let me sit
When the grey owls about thee flit;
There will I ask of thee a boon,
That I may not faint or die or swoon.

Gazing through the gloom like one
Whose life and hopes are also done,
Frozen like a thing of stone
I sit in thy shadow – but not alone.

Can God bring back the day when we two stood
Beneath the clinging trees in that dark wood?

http://allpoetry.com/Elizabeth%20Eleanor%20Siddal
David Belasco (1853 – May 14, 1931) American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.
Madame Butterfly
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067584/
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) American illustrator
http://parrish.artpassions.net/
Morris Raphael Cohen ( 1880-Jan28,1947)Russian –American Philosopher Reason and Nature
http://www.amazon.com/Morris-Raphael-Cohen/e/B001KITJHG
Eric Hoffer (1902 – 05/21/1983) US philosopher
http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/7854
Elias Canetti 1905 – 08/14/1994) Bulgarian writer , essayist, sociologist, and playwright, - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981 Crowds and Power
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ecanetti.htm
Alpha Rita Constantia Anderson Marley 1946- Jamaican Singer/Songwriter
http://www.ritamarleyfoundation.org/
Brian M[ichael] Stableford, 1948 - UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
http://www.philsp.com/stableford/
Walter Payton (1954 – 11/01/1999) US football player
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?PLAYER_ID=174
Passed:
0725
Charles Dibdin (03/04/1745 – 1814) English writer,composerThe Lass That Loves a Sailor
http://www.contemplator.com/history/dibdin.html
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10/21/1772 –1834) English Romantic, poet,/ writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/coleridge-samuel-taylor
Frank O'Hara (March 27,1926-66) American writer, poet and art critic
http://www.frankohara.org/
Vladimir Vysotsky, 1938-1980 Russian poet, singer, and actor
http://www.kulichki.com/vv/eng/
I Am On The Job

I am on the job, I've got a knife,
Don't hurt me, or you'll lose your life.
And then I go to have a drink.
No matter what the rumors say,
What I have earned I drink away.
I'll always act that way, I think.

A man comes up to me and says:

"Life isn't easy nowadays,
And men like you I want to kill".
But I have outdone the boy,
I do not talk, but I destroy,
I kill my foes and always will.

And if you care for a chat,
Let's have a drink, sit down, lad.
We'll work it out anyway.
But if you are like that young ass,
There is one law for all of us,
And it will always be that way.

Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton (Dec11,1926-1984), African-American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She had a No.1 R&B hit in 1953 with ‘Hound Dog’ (later covered by Elvis Presley). She also wrote and recorded ‘Ball 'n' Chain,’ which Janis Joplin recorded.
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1573
Elder James Olson (March 9, 1909 –1992) American poet, teacher and literary critic.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/29/obituaries/elder-j-olson-83-a-poet-and-teacher.html
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=Last%20Poems%20Elder%20Olson%20Paperback%201984&_itemId=341453856240
Charlie Rich (Dec 14,1932-1995), Grammy Award winning country singer, songwriter. He scored the 1974 single 'The Most Beautiful Girl' and 'Behind Closed Doors',.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-rich-mn0000179730
John Schlesinger (02/16/1926 –2003) English director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772259/

Sites:
http://thebackroom.ticketleap.com/
http://www.completeclassics.com/
http://thediagram.com/7_4/burt.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43225/43225-h/43225-h.htm
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/txt/Moore/Intro.html
http://www.moistproduction.com/Menu/index.html

History:
0725
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1550173847/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=todayinliter-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1550173847
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/CallOfTheWild/
1914,-Anias Nin began her diary
http://www.morbidoutlook.com/nonfiction/articles/2001_03_anaisnin.html

Bonus Poem:

LOVE ISN'T

thunder and cinnamon.
Is: walls the colour of Provence;
seagulls framed in the skylight,
between clouds and the morning moon;
hoya trailing night perfume;
a level floor;
a new sink;
your hands.

Wendy Morton

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