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Strafford Notes, 5 August, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013 11:03:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

What a beautiful day!!!!

August 5
Events:
Aug 5th Fryeburg Me.6 to 8 at night WMOOSE open mic event / poets, musicians and storytellers Where: Barrows Steadman House 661 Main St Fryeburg Please call 207 935 2058 to confirm either or e mail Rob Eastman nycdenizen.yahoo.com
Born:
0805
Niels H. Abel (1802 – 04/06/1829) Norwegian mathematician
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Abel.html
Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (1850- 6 July 1893) French short-story writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560943/
Joseph Carey “John” Merrick ( 1862- April 11,1890 ) The Elephant Man
http://www.rotten.com/library/sideshow/elephant-man/
Conrad Potter Aiken (1889-Aug 17, 1973) US novelist, poet, writer and editor), 1914,Earth Triumphant ,1930 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his book "Selected Poems"
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/aiken-conrad
John Huston (1906 – 08/28/1987) US movie director, producer, actor director and screenwriter
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/510041%7C86038/John-Huston/
Per Wahlöö (1926-June 23, 1975) Swedish writer and journalist
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wahloo.htm
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (1916-May 13,2006) US Poet, Historian / Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1949 for Terror and Decorum
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=13107
Neil Armstrong (1930-) American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator; first person to set foot on the Moon.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/neilabio.html
Ron Silliman, 1946 – American poet
From You
XIX

Moment in which I realize I'm not wearing my glasses. Old stone
house. Blue plastic wrap of the New York Times. Impact of red
wine on white fur of the dog. Sunrise.

Poem as gradual as weather. Hotel art (pseudo-Hoffman softened,
retro-Rothko as filigree in pastel). What Trenton makes, the world
takes. What Nixon knew when Nixon knew it.

First compulsive songbird, pre-dawn, abruptly halts. The air
conditioner is constant (unnoticed but never silent). You can hear
the electricity in lightbulbs, faint crackling. Motivation: man in hotel
conference room throws football to the sales reps.

Too bleary to imagine. How the river carves the city (lost at night,
trying to find my way across). Dog leaps for the stick, her own
ballet, then loses interest, wanders off to sniff the grass. History as
a function of curiosity.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/online_poems.htm

Rick Richard ZehringerDerringer 1947- US musician Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo
http://www.rickderringer.com/
David Baldacci (1960- ) bestselling American novelist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049641/
http://davidbaldacci.com/
Seth Swirsky, 1960 – American singer-songwriter and director
http://www.seth.com/
Patrick Aloysius Ewing 1962- Jamaican-American NBA Hall of Fame New York Knick
http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/career.jsp?player=patrick_ewing-jr
Colin McRae (1968- Sep 15, 2007) Scot Rally Car Racing champion-1995
http://www.colinmcrae.com/
Passed:
0805
Anne Kingsmill Finch ,Countess of Winchilsea ( 1661- Aug 5, 1720) English Poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/finch-countess-winchilsea-anne
http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33672
Phil Sheridan (03/06/1831 –1888) US civil war general
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/philiphe.htm
Friedrich Engels (11/28/1820 –1895) German philosopher
http://www.egs.edu/library/friedrich-engels/biography/
Talbot Mundy William Lancaster Gribbon (April 23, 1879-1940) English writer
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6066/6066-h/6066-h.htm
Edgar Albert Guest (Aug 20,1881 -1959) Brit/ US (Naturalized US Citizen) journalist & most popular poet in WWI/depression-era America
from The Crucible of Life

Sunshine and shadow, blue sky and gray,
Laughter and tears as we tread on our way;
Hearts that are heavy, then hearts that are light,
Eyes that are misty and eyes that are bright;
Losses and gains in the heat of the strife,
Each in proportion to round out his life.

Into the crucible, stirred by the years,
Go all our hopes and misgivings and fears;
Glad days and sad days, our pleasures and pains,
Worries and comforts, our losses and gains.
Out of the crucible shall there not come
Joy undefiled when we pour off the scum?

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/941/941-h/941-h.htm#link2H_4_0022
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/guest-edgar-albert
Marilyn Monroe (06/01/1926 –1962) US actor, icon, sex symbol
http://marilynmonroe.com/history/
Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. Burton (11/10/1925 –1984) English actor
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/richard-burton/bio/171458
Soichiro Honda (Nov 17, 1906 -1991 ) Founder of Honda Motor Company
Sir Alec Guinness (04/02/1919 –2000) English actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000027/
Seymour Wilson Budd Schulberg (3/27/1914—2009) US writer What Makes Sammy Run
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no00-14384
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/schulbe.htm
Roland Charles Wagner, (1960-2012) French author
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004MT3SCM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_pop_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books&field-author=Roland-C%20Wagner&sort=relevancerank
Sites:
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Poetry.html
http://www.pbs.org/makers/home/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
http://www.delrossis.com/index.html
http://www.newenglandbooks.org/Default.aspx?pageId=224689
http://www.theroot.com/
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/07/27/the-young-wellesley-professor-who-invented-contemporary-art/RoebIf203DM2gfzONXcuFO/story.html

History:
0805
1775, the Spanish ship San Carlos, entered San Francisco Bay
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Discovery_of_San_Francisco_Bay_(1542-1769)
1884- the cornerstone was laid for the Statue of Liberty
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/5/2013
1957 – American Bandstand, debuts on ABC
http://www.tv.com/shows/american-bandstand/
Bonus Poem:
From A Poem
XI.
What does the man find, prize of his waking,
Said by the silence, shown by the dark?
What is the meaning beyond his mistaking?
What is the mute aim worthy his mark?
Infinite ages through infinite travail
Have brought him afire and aware and aghast,
And awfully bid him a dream to unravel
Here at the last.
XII.
Driven a centre of life into loving,
Driven through fury of love into sin,
Driven of sin into direst reproving,
Driven by bitterness sorrow to win;
Atoms must be, if the atoms shall mingle;
Prosper the unit or prosper the clan?
What is the man’s life?—cosmical? single?
Who is the man?
-L. S. (Louisa Sarah) Bevington
Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7024.xml&doc.view=print

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