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Strafford Notes, 16 August 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013 1:18:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Here4s today's Strafford Notes.....

August 16
Events:Coming Up!
Aug 17th, 2013: , Effingham NH, 7PM; Pat O’Brien in concert at Lord”s Hill Meeting House http://www.patobriensongsandstories.com/p/upcoming-events.html
Aug 17, Dunbarnton The Spireside Coffee House and Open Bob Moore (solo and also plays with the Sylvan Roots http://www.myspace.com/robertmoore/photos Come and enjoy the show as we serve delicious free-trade coffee, tea, light snacks, hot soup and home-baked goods. www.dccucc.org Lizz.dccucc.org
Aug 18, Derry,Frost Farm 2 PM: “Fact, Dream and Labor: Robert Frost and the New England Attitude” Informal talk on Robert Frost by SYDNEY LEA…SYDNEY LEA, our second featured poet in the 2013 series will be approaching Frost from the perspective of one quintessential New England poet looking at another. Mr. Lea is Poet-Laureate of Vermont,.. His is also a novelist, essayist, literary scholar and teacher http://robertfrostfarm.org/ http://sydneylea.net/ {Thanks,Barb}
Aug19,Wolfeboro Arts On The Edge :Tearing Down and Building Up: A Day of Poetry
The Pinckney Boathouse, Brewster Academy Spend a day with Maine poets Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and Arielle Greenberg, which includes workshops ("Building theContemporary Spiritual Poem" - Greenberg, "Tear it Down:Radical Revision and Reconstruction" - Fay-LeBlanc), readings by the poets, and an open mic for all attendees. 9:00am - 9:00pm - FREE www.artsedgewolfeboro.org
Aug. 19 Rye, 6:30-8:30 pm – Serenity Café, Rye Summer Series! – Open mike fiction and poetry (John Simon, john.wordpraxis.com).
Born:
0816
Pierre de Fermat (1601 – 01/12/1665) French mathematician
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers1999/chellani.html
Jean de la Bruyere (1645 – 05/10 or 05/11/1696) French scholar Les "Caractères" de Thèophraste, traduits du grec, avec les caractères ou les mœurs de ce siècle, 1688
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bruyere.htm
Jules Laforgue (1860-Aug 20, 1887) French poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
For the Book of Love
I MAY be dead tomorrow, uncaressed.
My lips have never touched a woman's, none
Has given me in a look her soul, not one
Has ever held me swooning at her breast.
I have but suffered, for all nature, trees
Whipped by the winds, wan flowers, the ashen sky,
Suffered with all my nerves, minutely, I
Have suffered for my soul's impurities.

And I have spat on love, and, mad with pride,
Slaughtered my flesh, and life's revenge I brave,
And, while the whole world else was Instinct's slave,
With bitter laughter Instinct I defied.

In drawing-rooms, the theatre, the church,
Before cold men, the greatest, most refined,
And women with eyes jealous, proud, or kind,
Whose tender souls no lust would seem to smirch.

I thought: This is the end for which they work.
Beasts coupling with the groaning beasts they capture.
And all this dirt for just three minutes' rapture!
Men, be correct! And women, purr and smirk!
translated by Jethro Bithell
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/l/for_the_book_of_love.html
Read more at http://www.blackcatpoems.com/l/for_the_book_of_love.html#1MZfgFPY6WQSEC6M.99
Dame Mary Gilmore ( 1865-Dec 3, 1962) Australian socialist poet and journalist
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/51271905
http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/dame_mary_gilmore_2012_3.pdf
Jeannette Augustus Marks(1875-1964 )US Poet
http://archive.org/details/threewelshplaysm00mark

YOU

You are the sunshine,
I am the sod:
Flame to my leaf-mould,
And goldenrod.

ii

You are the shadow,
I am the rock:
Coolness of sheep bells,
Stilling the flock.

in

You are the starlight,
I am the stream:
Trees dripping lustre
Into our dream.

http://archive.org/stream/willowpollen00markrich/willowpollen00markrich_djvu.txt

Georgette Heyer, (1902 - July 4, 1974 )Brit novelist (Friday's Child)
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/gheyer.htm
Ralph Barker Gustafson, (1909–May 29, 1995) Canadian poet \ teacher
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/ralph-gustafson
Heinrich Karl Charles Bukowski (1920 – 03/09/1994) US poet, novelist and short story writer
http://bukowski.net/timeline/
Lewis "Lew" Barrett Welch, Jr. (1926 – May 1971) American poet associated with the Beat generation of poets, artists, and iconoclasts
http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/welch.html
Anthony Price (1928- ) Eng novelist Other Paths to Glory (1975, novel)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/anthony-price/
Ted Edward J. Hughes (1930 - Oct 28, 1998 ) England, poet laureate (1984-2008 )
http://www.thetedhughessociety.org/
Christopher Okigbo (1932-67) Nigerian poet
http://www.africaworldpressbooks.com/servlet/Detail?no=387
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okigbo.htm
Linda Hutsell-Manning(1940- ) Canadian novelist /poet
http://www.lindahutsellmanning.ca/WritingforAdults/poetry.htm
John Harwood (1946) Australian poet, literary critic and novelist
http://www.thebigbookclub.com.au/page.php?section=353&mId=299&PHPSESSID=b3d75f9931247062f65a52065a04f079
James Cameron (1954 – ) Canadian director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116/
Madonna Ciccone (1958 – ) US singer/ actress, (1984 single 'Holiday', 1984 'Like A Virgin', first UK No.1 1985 'Into The Groove', over30 other top 40 hits).
http://www.madonna.com/
Steve Carell (1962 – ) US comic actor
LL Cool J, James Todd Smith (1968- ) US hip-hop music/actor 1995 single 'Hey Lover', 1997 single 'Ain't Nobody' and 2000 US No.1 album 'G.O.A.T.).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005112/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Emily Robison,(1972- ) US singer, Dixie Chicks, (1999 single, 'There's Your Trouble', 2000 single 'Cowboy Take Me Away').
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733215/
Passed:
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Prentiss Ingraham (Dec 22, 1843-1944) US ‘Dime’ novelist wrote 600 Old West novels
http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/ingraham_prentiss.html
http://fullonlinebooks.com/author/prentiss-ingraham
http://collections.swco.ttu.edu/handle/10605/395
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8,1911-1938 ) African American blues guitarist- influenced generations of musicians including Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-johnson-mn0000832288
http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/people/robert_johnson.htm
from I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
I'm gonna write a letter
telephone everytown I know
I'm gonna write a letter
telephone every town I know
If I can't find her in West Helena
she must be in East Monroe I know

I don't want no woman
wants every downtown man she meets
I don't want no woman
wants every downtown man she meets
She's a no good dooney
they shouldn't allow her on the street

I believe, I believe I'll go back home
I believe, I believe I'll go back home
You can mistreat me here babe,
but you can't when I'm back home

And I'm gettin up in the mornin
I believe I'll dust my broom
I'm gettin up in the mornin
I believe I'll dust my broom
Girlfriend the black man you been lovin
girlfriend can get my room

Lyrics from Click here
As Arranged and Recorded by R Johnson
http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/robert-johnson-lyrics/i-believe-i_ll-dust-my-broom-(SA.2581,,1)-lyrics.html
George Herman Babe Ruth Jr. (02/06/1895 –1948) US baseball player
http://www.baberuth.com/
Margaret Mitchell (11/08/1900-1949) US writer Pulitzer Prizefor Fiction 1937 fGone with the Wind
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/gwtw/
Wolcott Gibbs (March 15, 1902 –1958) American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and author of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine
http://www.kilibro.com/en/book/preview/168869/backward-ran-sentences
Elvis Aron Presley (01/08/1935 –1977) US singer, rock'n'roll icon ///starred in 31 films. Elvis holds the record for the most entries on the US Hot 100 chart with 154. Elvis became the first rock 'n' roll artist to be honoured by the US Postal Service with a stamp
http://www.elvis.com/
Jaime Saenz, Guzmán (Oct 29, 1921 –1986) Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer -
http://jacketmagazine.com/08/saenz.html
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lgarcia/Saenz/Saenz.html
Dorothy West (June 2,1907-1998) African American Novelist One of the last figures of the Harlem Renaissance- The Wedding (1995, novel)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/westDorothy.php
Max Roach (01/10/1925 – 2007) US Musician, bebop drummer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-roach-mn0000396372
Sites:
http://jnanahodson.net/
http://www.niger.ird.fr/nos-partenaires/nos-partenaires-au-niger/inran
http://www.currier.org/exhibitions/upcoming/
http://www.writersday.org/content/writers-day-2012-registration-now-open
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/t/categories/everything-else/t-shirts
http://www.roadkilltshirts.com/New-C101.aspx
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
History:
0816
1762- Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds departed on their six-week trip to Devonshire
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/16/2013
1939- New York City's Hippodrome Theater closed its doors for the last time
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1968- Working at Abbey Road studios, The Beatles recorded the new George Harrison song 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-19691231
1983- After dating for six years, Paul Simon married actress Carrie Fisher
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,307600,00.html
Bonus Poem:
from Five poems about losing someone.
III

When I see a star
through the darkness
and think about how
long ago that was
I think
of you.
Give me
a sign.
I wait.

-Elizabeth Rynell
http://allpoetry.com/poem/477219-Five_poems_about_losing_someone.-by-polarbear

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