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Strafford Notes, 9 August, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013 2:46:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Sorry I haven't put these up the last few days. I haven't been myself. But then there are those who say I have NEVER quite been myself!!!!

August 9
Events-
Aug 5-9, Franconia ; Frost Place Readings . the Henry Holt Barn Daily readings 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Event is free and open to the public
August 9, 2013 Poetry Seminar Participants read at The Frost Place.
The Frost Place158 Ridge Road, Franconia, NH 03580 Sarah Audsley frost.frostplace.org
Events:MoreEntertainmentInTheNorthCountry
-August 9-11 & 15-18 at 2pm on the Sandwich Fairgrounds Stage August 13 at 7:30pm, in the Sandwich Town Hall Theatre Tickets: $20 adults, $10 Seniors and Students, at Mocha Rizing, Sandwich; at the door; or by calling 603-986-6253. 12 and under free, thanks to a grant from the Alfred Quimby Trust. - See more at: http://artstamworth.org/category/advicetotheplayersdotorg/#sthash.SjXqsdhn.dpuf
http://artstamworth.org/category/advicetotheplayersdotorg/
Rebecca Boyden Executive Director Advice To The Players
P.O. Box 14, North Sandwich, NH 03259 603-986-6253 www.AdviceToThePlayers.org
Aug. 24th Tuftonboro Paddy Keenan-Uilleann Pipes & Brendan Callaghan -Fiddle In Concert Old White Church, Tuftonboro7:30pm $20.00
hepx216.yahoo.com www.teriheppe.mywildtree.com603-569-9859 or 603-569-2558
Born:
0809
Izaak Walton (1593 – 12/15/1683) English writer (The Compleat Angler)
http://manybooks.net/titles/waltonisetext058tcng10.html
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/iwalton.htm
John Dryden (1631 – 05/01/1700) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/dryden-john
John Oldham (1653 – Dec 9,1683) English poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/oldham-john
František Maxmilián Kaňka, (1674 – 1766) Czech architect
http://middleczech.kr-stredocesky.cz/?cat=102
George Payne Rainsford James (1799-Jun9, 1860) English novelist and historical writer
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/james/hallbio.html
Eino Kaila (1890- Aug 1, 1958.) Finnish philosopher, critic, and educator
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ekaila.htm
Pamela Lyndon Travers (1899- April 23,1996) British novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3099/the-art-of-fiction-no-63-p-l-travers
http://poemelf.com/tag/p-l-travers/
William Alfred Fowler, (1911 – 1996) American physicist, Nobel Laureate

Tove Jansson (1914- June 27, 2001) Finland-Swedish artist, novelist, and children's book writer; comic strip Moomin
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tjansson.htm
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922 – 12/02/1985) English writer The Whitsun Weddings
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/177058
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/larkin.htm
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/9/2013
Daniel Keyes (1927- ) US Novelist Flowers for Algernon
from “Flowers for Algernon” -a found poem
“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am.
I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—
one of many ways—
and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take
will help me understand what I am becoming.”
https://sites.google.com/site/shorty760com/home/my-poems/daniel-keyes-quote-s
http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com/
John Varley, 1947 – American science fiction author
http://varley.net/
Whitney Houston (1963 – 02/11/2012) US singer, actor
http://www.allmusic.com/album/whitney-houston-mw0000650265
Danielle Jacobowitz –NH/Seatle Poet –used to attend the Crackskulls Open Mic…She moved far away…soitgoes
http://www.poetrybridge.net/Poetrybridge/Pomes_%26_Tails/Entries/2012/1/25_January_2012_Reading.html
Passed:
0809
Jheronimus van Aken Hieronymus Bosch (1453-1516) Dutch Painter of the grotesque
http://www.academia.edu/3858747/Lecture_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_A_diachronic_interpretation_of_Hieronymus_Boschs_masterpiece
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/
Sir Samuel Ferguson (March 10, 1810 –1886) Northern Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant
TO THE HARPER O'CONNELLAN-
AFTER THE IRISH

Enchanter who reignest
Supreme o'er the North,
Who hast wiled the coy spirit
Of true music forth ;
In vain Europe's minstrels
To honour aspire.
When thy swift slender fingers
Go forth on the wire !
There is no heart's desire
Can be felt by a king,
That thy hand cannot match
From the soul of the string,
By its conquering, capturing.
Magical sway.
For, charmer, thou stealest
Thy notes from a fay !
Enchanter, I say, —
For thy magical skill
Can soothe every sorrow,
And heal every ill :
Who hear thee they praise thee ;
They weep while they praise ;
For, charmer, from Fairyland
Fresh are thy lays .
From Lays Of The Western Gael.
http://archive.org/stream/poemsofsirsamue00ferg/poemsofsirsamue00ferg_djvu.txt

Hermann Hesse (07/02/1887 –1962) German writer
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm
Joe Orton (01/01/1903 –1967) British playwright Prick Up Your Ears
http://www.joeorton.org/
James Gould Cozzens (08/19/1903 –1978) US writer Guard of Honor
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63706318
Jerry Garcia (08/01/1942 –1995) US guitarist, singer (Grateful Dead)
http://www.thejerrysite.com/
Mahmoud Darwish, (1941- 2008) Palestinian poet and writer
http://www.mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm

Sites:
http://www.steveely.co.uk/
http://www.tupelohallvermont.com/open_mic_nites.html
http://www.backpagesbooks.com/
http://www.barngallery.org/
http://mq.edu.au/
http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/#.Uf6m6qbD_dc
History:
0809
1483-The Sistine Chapel opened
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1944 – The United States Forest Service releases posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/smokey-bear-campaign
1995 – The original members of the rock band Kiss reunite during the taping of MTV Unplugged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_y3n3a8BAc&list=RD34BIsX8mahkYw
Bonus Poem:

Grandmother Undressing

From under blankets, I would watch while she
undressed for bed and marveled at the way
she could disrobe and put pajamas on--
and all beneath her clothes. I waited for
that final moment when she pulled her corset out
from underneath her neat pajama top,
its garters, hooks, elastic, strings, and stays
revealed the way magicians wave their strings of scarves.

Then in the dark and hoping I could get
to sleep before, as usual, she began to snore,
I would contemplate my destined fate
all neatly folded, laid away each night:
housedresses, corsets, orthopedic shoes,
and that mysterious process of undress.
Doris Watts
http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2009&iss=2&cat=poetry&page=watts

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