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Strafford Notes, August 12, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013 8:58:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

There is a touch of autumn in the air....

August 12
Events:
August 13 Much Ado About Nothing 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, AND:
Aug 15-18 at 2pm on the Sandwich Fairgrounds Stage - 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
August 14,Exeter 6:30 p.m. - Water Street Bookstore, downtown Exeter - Poetry Reading with featured readers, Bob Moore & Julie Dickson followed by open mic. Contact John Ferguson, 778 9731.
Aug 14, Somerville,Mass. 9:00pm until 11:00… NH’s Slam Free or Die's second preliminary bout at the 2013 National Poetry Slam!(Grtr BostonAug12-17th) The Granite State's only slam team will throw down against with 3 other teams: Port Veritas (Portland, ME), Marquis Slam (Fayetteville, NC), and Neo-Soul (Austin, TX). The Davis Square Theater (downstairs from The Foundry)255 Elm St., Somerville No advance ticketing available. All ages, wheelchair accessible (elevator to basement), full bar. http://nps2013.poetryslam.com/
August 15th, Concord, 7 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore presents Local poet Jim MacEachern,
in his first public reading of his first volume of verse, 'Under Any Sky' , 45 S Main St Concord http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
Aug 15 Effingham – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Writers' Night - Features –Music with The Starlight Honeys and Poetry by Katie O’Connell followed by open mike (http://effingham.lib.nh.us, 539-7694, marilyn.effingham.lib.nh.us , or katiemccarthy.roadrunner.com
Aug 15 Portmouth - 7-9pm – Press Room,– Beat Night – Featured Readers: Lucie Therrien, Jonathan Stoker, Alicia Fisher Accompanied by the Beat Night Band- (followed by the open mic with your host Heather Elisabeth) 431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom

Born:
0812
Robert Southey (1774-March 25,1883) English poet and biographer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/southey-robert
Madame Helene Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 – 05/08/1891) Russian writer, mystic
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/blavatsky.htm
Diamond Jim James Buchanan Brady (1856 – April 13, 1917), American businessman, financier, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age
http://www.foodreference.com/html/wdiamondjimbrady.html
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-March 28,1929) US Scholar, lyricist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bates-katharine-lee
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez (1866-1974 ) 20th century Spanish dramatist Nobel Prize for Literature 1922
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/benavent.htm
Edith Hamilton (1867 – 05/31/1963) US educator
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mythology/
Cecil B. de Mille (1881 – 01/21/1959) US director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001124/
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (1887 –Jan 4, 1961), Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory
http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/schrodinger/ebio/bio1.htm
Samuel Fuller (1911-97) American screenwriter, producer and director
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/fuller.htm
Donald Justice (1925- 2004) American poet and teacher of writing
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/donald-justice
Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge,( 1919- ) British-born American astrophysicist, director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
http://casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/mburbidge.html
William Goldman (1931- ) American novelist, playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001279/
Walter Dean Myers, (1937- ) American author and poet
http://www.walterdeanmyers.net/bio.html
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/harlem/harlem.htm
http://loribailey.wordpress.com/2004/11/15/love-that-boy-complete-poem/
Summer
I like hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you got days
Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin
Juices dripping
Running and ripping
Catch the one you love days

Birds peeping
Old men sleeping
Lazy days, daisies lay
Beaming and dreaming
Of hot days, hot days,
Sweat is what you got days.

From Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
http://www.crsd.org/Page/762

Passed:
0812
William Blake (Nov.28,1757-1827) Eng poet, painter, and printmaker
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/blake-william
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/12/2013
Helen Maria Fiske, Hunt Jackson (Oct 18,1830-85) US Poet, novelist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/jackson-helen-hunt
Eliphalet Remington, (1793- 1861 )American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms
http://www.remington.com/pages/our-company/company-history.aspx
James Russell Lowell (Feb 22, 1819 –1891) American Romantic poet, essayist, critic, editor, and diplomat
http://books.google.com/books?id=_dM6AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=James+Russell+Lowell&lr=&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=James%20Russell%20Lowell&f=false
"NO MORE BUT SO?"
No more but so? Only with uncold looks,

And with a hand not laggard to clasp mine,

Think'st thou to pay what debt of love is thine?

No more but so? Like gushing water-brooks,

Freshening and making green the dimmest nooks

Of thy friend's soul thy kindliness should flow;

But, if 'tis bounded by not saying "no,"

I can find more of friendship in my books,

All lifeless though they be, and more, far more

In every simplest moss, or flower, or tree;

Open to me thy heart of hearts' deep core,

Or never say that I am dear to thee;

Call me not Friend, if thou keep close the door

That leads into thine inmost sympathy.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38520/38520-h/38520-h.htm

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., (1915-1944 )American navy officer and pilot
http://www.jpkf.org/biog.html
Thomas Mann (06/06/1875–1955) German writer
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmann.htm
Ian Fleming (05/28/1908–1964) Scottish writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001220/
Bennett Cerf (05/25/1898–1971) US humorist
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bennett_cerf.html
Henry Fonda (05/16/1905 –1982) US actor
http://movies.yahoo.com/person/henry-fonda/
Lenny Breau, (1941-1984 )American guitarist and songwriter
http://www.lennybreau.com/
John Cage (09/05/1912–1992) US composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist ,artist, printmaker,
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-cage/about-the-composer/471/
Sites:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm
http://science29.all-about-solar-energy.com/browser.php?indx=13464490&item=568
http://www.aldaily.com/
http://navalny-en.livejournal.com/
http://www.alfranken.com/
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
http://blog.onbeing.org/post/56800012973/alain-de-botton-proposes-the-romantic-gift-of-a
History:
0812
1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman kills the Wampanoag war chief, Metacomet, ending King Philip's War.
http://therealwesternmass.blogspot.com/2008/09/metacomets-war.html
1877- Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1952- The Night of the Murdered Poets - an execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union
Peretz Markish (1895–1952),David Hofstein (1889–1952),Itzik Fefer (1900–1952), Leib Kvitko (1890–1952), David Bergelson (1884–1952),Solomon Lozovsky (1878–1952), Boris Shimeliovich (1892–1952), Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952), Joseph Yuzefovich (1890–1952), Leon Talmy (1893–1952Ilya Vatenberg (1887–1952), Chaika Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya (1901–1952), Emilia Teumin (1905–1952), Solomon Bregman (1895–1953), Lina Stern (or Shtern) (1875–1968)
http://www.midstreamthf.com/200207/feature.html
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=258368577562312&id=113035405435245
1958 – In New York City ,Art Kane photographs "A Great Day in Harlem" – a black and white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31721#.UgfKLKbD_dc
http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/pictures.htm.
1968-Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/artist/led-zeppelin
http://books.google.com/books?id=j1OuyRS5tSMC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=the+yardbirds+became+led+zeppelin&source=bl&ots=SKH8u7ckK5&sig=mEtgPEFmEy5IOYvGhiTpVt6Xo8o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iq8IUpOIG4q62gXhwIE4&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=the%20yardbirds%20became%20led%20zeppelin&f=false

Bonus Poem:
The Leaves

I can bless a death this human, this leaf
the size of my hand. From the life-line spreads
a sapped, distended jaundice
toward the edges, still green.
I've seen the sick starve out beyond
the grip of their disease.
They sleep for days, their stomachs gone,
the bones in their hands
seeming to rise to the hour
that will receive them.
Sometimes on their last evening, they sit up
and ask for food,
their faces bloodless, almost golden,
they inquire about the future.
*
One August I drove the back roads,
the dust wheeling behind me.
I wandered through the ruins of sharecrop farms
and saw the weeds in the sun frames
opening the floorboards.
Once behind what must have been an outhouse
the way wild yellow roses bunched and climbed
the sweaty walls, I found a pile of letters,
fire-scarred, urinous.
All afternoon the sun brought the field to me.
The insects hushed as I approached.
I read how the world had failed who ever lived behind
the page, behind the misquoted Bible verses,
that awkward backhand trying to explain deliverance.
*
The morning Keats left Guys Hospital's cadaver rooms
for the last time, he said he was afraid.
This was the future, this corning down a stairway
under the elms' summer green,
passing the barber shops along the avenue that still
performed the surgeries, still dumped
blood caught in sand from porcelain washtubs
into the road-side sewer. From those windows,
from a distance, he could have been anyone
taking in the trees, mistaking the muse for this new
warmth around his heart—the first symptom
of his illness—that so swelled the look of things,
it made leaves into poems, though he'd write later
he had not grieved, not loved enough to claim them.
by Deborah Digges
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19202

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