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Strafford Notes, 30 July, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:14:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Happy trails to youuuuuuu!!!!!!

July 30
Events: Next Week:
8/1,Manchester, Slam Free or Die– feature by Adriana Ramirez! open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , facebook.com/slamfreeordie
Aug 2, Exeter– 7:30 pm – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, Exeter – First Friday Coffeehouse – Open mic followed by more open mike (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net )
Aug 6 Moultonborough 7:30pm - 9:30ISH! Moultonboro Public Library, - Features from the Old Dominion & Mirror Lake, Retired Engineer /Lawyer/ Student of poetry, Dick Byrd –followed by open mic (476-8895) http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/index.asp
August 8, Derry: The Hyla Brook Reading Series will feature poet Dan Chiasson, author of the forthcoming collection Bicentennial. At 6:30 p.m., followed by an open mic at 7:30 p.m., The Robert Frost Farm (www.Robertfrostfarm.org).
August 8, Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com, facebook.com/slamfreeordie )
August 8th.Rochester The Adult Writer’s Night 6 -8. The night is open to all writers over the age of 18, and the event will be more relaxed. There is no feature again this month, and no sound system Portable Pantry on 12 Hanson St in Rochester. Pat O’Brien, 332-6357
Born:
0730.
Samuel Rogers (1763– 12/18/1855) English writer/poet
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13586/pg13586.html
Emily Brontë (1818 – 12/19/1848) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bront%C3%AB-emily-jane
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
Henry Ford (1863 – 04/07/1947) US inventor, industrialist
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:.field(DOCID+.lit(ncdhasm.a1116))
Anne Barbara Ridler (1912 – 15 October 2001) British poetess, and Faber and Faber editor
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=30
http://www.poemhunter.com/anne-barbara-ridler/
William H. Gass (1924). US essayist and novelist 1966, Omensetter's Luck; 1995, The Tunnel ;taught philosophy,
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200511/?read=interview_gass
George Buddy Guy, 1937- American blues guitarist ;solo artist and as a sideman for blues singers like Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
http://www.buddyguy.net/
Kate Bush (1958 – ) English singer, songwriter, dancer, musician
http://www.katebush.com/
From Running Up The Hill
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.

It doesn’t hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know that it doesn’t hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal that Im making?
You, it's you and me.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could, oh...

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware Im tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, it's you and me.
Its you and me wont be unhappy.

And if I only could,
Id make a deal with god,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
Say, if I only could, oh...
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kate+bush/running+up+that+hill_20077279.html

Passed:
0730
Nahum Tate (1652-1715) Irish poet, hymnist, and lyricist, England's poet laureate 1692.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/tate-nahum
William Penn (10/14/1644 –1718) English-US Quaker leader, colonist
http://www.williampennfoundation.org/
Thomas Gray (12/26/1716 –1771) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/gray-thomas
Denis Diderot (10/05/1713 –1784) French philosopher, encyclopedist
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/denisdiderot.html
Walter Pater (1839-94) Eng Victorian Scholar /poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/pater-walter
Otto von Bismarck (04/01/1815 –1898) German Chancellor
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/bismarck.html
Joyce Kilmer (12/06/1886 –1918) US writer –poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/kilmer-joyce
Kenneth Slessor(1901-71) Australian poet / journalist
http://www.poemhunter.com/kenneth-slessor/poems/
Howard Dietz (09/08/1896 –1983) US actor / lyricist
from That's Entertainment

Everything that happens in life Can happen in a show
You can make 'em laugh You can make 'em cry
Anything Anything can go....
The clown with his pants falling down
Or the dance that's a dream of romance
Or the scene where the villain is mean
That's entertainment!
The lights on the lady in tights
Or the bride with the guy on the side
Or the ball where she gives him her all
That's entertainment!
The plot and the hot simply teeming with sex
A gay divorcee who is after her ex
It could be Oedipus Rex
Where a chap kills his father
And causes a lot of bother
The clerk who is thrown out of work
By the boss who is thrown for a loss
By the skirt who is doing him dirt
The doubt while the jury is out
Or the thrill when they're reading the will
Or the chase for the man with the face
That's entertainment!
The dame who is known as the flame
Of the king of an underworld ring
He's an ape Who won't let her escape
It might be a fight like you see on the screen
A swain getting slain for the love of a queen
Some great Shakespearean scene
Where a ghost and a prince meet
And everyone ends in mincemeat.
The gag may be waving the flag
That began with a Mr. Cohan
Hip hooray! The American way
The world is a stage,
The stage is a world of entertainment
music written by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz.
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebandwagon/thatsentertainment.htm

Joe Shuster, (July 10, 1914 -1992 ) co creator (Superman)
http://www.comic-art.com/biographies/shuster1.htm
Ingmar Bergman (07/14/1918 –2007) Swedish film director
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bergman.htm
Maeve Binchy, ( -2012) Irish novelist
http://www.maevebinchy.com/
Sites:
http://www.pirenesfountain.com/archives/issue_09/folios/2.html
http://www.visitmyrtlebeach.com/hotels/deals/summer/?cid=tl_attravel_summer_0513
http://www.thelakesideplayers.org/
http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/John-Balaban-Two-Poems
http://lareviewofbooks.org/
http://salamandermag.org/
History:
0730
1974-
House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm
1932- United States opening of the Olympic Games of Los Angeles
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:.field(NUMBER+.band(pan+6a29399))
1839-
Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad/
1729-
City of Baltimore founded
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60811-Baltimore_Maryland-Vacations.html
http://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/
Bonus Poem:
Song of the Builders

On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God -

a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside

this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope

it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.

Mary Oliver

from Why I Wake Early (2004) http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/MaryOliver.html

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