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Strafford Notes, 23 August 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:20:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Have had computer issues tyhe last three days,.....Thank you, COMCAST....NOT!!!

August 22
Events:
Aug 22nd,Sanbornville (Wakefield), from 7 - 9 p.m. Once again this month the Poets in the Attic are on the road as the Poets in the Gallery a second ekphrastic project (i.e., one work of art comments on another--think "Ode on a Grecian Urn"). You can get some sense of the space and the works by looking at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-hPc6Gvrtc or the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GarvinGalleryFive, but you really have to go there. Bring snacks and beverages to share, as long as we are tidy, respectful, and clean up. And
seating? If you have folding chairs that won't damage the floors, please bring them. (For example, we'll have some of our folding outdoor chairs with rubber feet.) . Garvin Gallery Five in Sanbornville (Wakefield), at 3 High Street in Sanbornville
contact Gordon Lang at 603 539 4472 or poetsintheattic.gmail.com.
open mike poetsintheattic.gmail.com or 539-4472)
Aug 22nd Manchester, Slam Free or Die– open mike slam poetry, feature by David Keali’ Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , facebook.com/slamfreeordie)

Born:
0822
Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893 – 06/07/1967) American short story writer/poet/critic and wit
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/teleycal.html
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/parker-dorothy
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/22/2013
Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 02/19/1997) Chinese communist leader
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/dengxiaoping.shtml
John Leo Kennedy (1907 – 2000) Canadian poet and critic
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/john-leo-kennedy
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/58/1#!/20582504
Julius Epstein (1909 – 12/30/2000) US screenwriter
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0258493/
John Lee Hooker (1915 – 06/21/2001) US blues singer 1951 US million selling album 'I'm In The Mood', 1964 single 'Dimples', 1989 album 'The Healer'
http://www.amazon.com/John-Lee-Hooker/e/B000AP9IEE
Annie Proulx (1935- ) US novelist, short story writer, and how-to writer
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5901/the-art-of-fiction-no-199-annie-proulx
“55 Miles to the Gas Pump”
Rancher Croom in handmade boots and filthy hat, that walleyed cattleman, stray hairs like the curling fiddle string ends, that warm-handed, quick-foot dancer on splintery boards or down the cellar stairs to a rack of bottles of his own strange beer, yeasty, cloudy, bursting out in garlands of foam, Rancher Coom at night galloping drunk over the dark plain, turning off at a place he knows to arrive at a canyon brink where he dismounts and looks down on tumbled rock, waits, then steps out, parting the air with his last roar, sleeves surging up, windmill arms, jeans riding over boot tops, but before he hits he rises again to the top of the cliff like a cork in a bucket of milk.
Mrs. Croom on the roof with a saw cutting a hole into the attic where she has not been for twelve years thanks to old Croom’s padlocks and warnings, whets to her desire, and the sweat flies as she exchanges the saw for a chisel and hammer until a ragged slab peak is free and she can see inside: just as she thought: the corpses of Mr. Croom’s paramours – she recognizes them from their photographs in the paper: MISSING WOMAN – some desiccated as jerky and much the same color, some moldy from lying beneath roof leaks, and, all of them used hard, covered with tarry handprints, the marks of boot heels, some bright blue with remnants of paint used on the shutters years ago, one wrapped in newspaper nipple to knee.
When you live a long way out you make your own fun.
http://biblioklept.org/2011/01/22/55-miles-to-the-gas-pump-annie-proulx/
Gary Grice GZA, 1966 – American rapper and songwriter (Wu-Tang Clan)
http://www.allmusic.com/album/liquid-swords-mw0000174287
http://rapgenius.com/Gza-liquid-swords-lyrics
Passed:
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Sydney Thompson Dobell (April 5,1824-74) Eng Victorian poet & critic
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/dobell-sydney-thompson
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (July 9, 1834 – 1891) Czech journalist, writer and poet
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jneruda.htm
http://prague-stay.com/lifestyle/review/741-jan-neruda-1834-1891/
http://www.phy6.org/outreach/poems/frogs.htm
Kate Chopin (02/08/1851–1904) US writer The Awakening
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/160/160-h/160-h.htm
Jacob Bronowski (01/18/1908–1974) Polish-English mathematician
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111480/
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8602447-Take_Your_Gun-by-Jacob_Bronowski
James T. Farrell (02/27/1904–1979) US writer Studs Lonigan trilogy
http://www.marxistsfr.org/history/etol/writers/farrell/index.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054348/
George R. Stewart (May 31, 1895 – 1980) US author Earth Abides
http://www.georgerstewart.com/
Grace Paley (12/11/1922–2007) US writer The Poet’s Occasional Alternative & The Little Disturbances of Man
http://poemelf.com/category/poets/grace-paley/
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Scott Wannberg, (1953-2011) US Poet
Sing One for Todd Moore

the mesa is full of sad howls tonight
ride soft, gunslinger
the moon is learning to shine
sing one for todd moore
the sage whispers
they got the big barn dance
at work in your somersault west
toward the invigorating big muddy
and the yodeling light
johnny dillinger is finally asleep
and the rock n roll just needs to cut loose
todd moore he painted this sunset
he lifted raucous boulders for free
see his footsteps ascending the holy mountain
composed of dreaming castanets
si sue puede jefe
i’m off to the burning cantina
gonna whittle me a workable town council
the senoritas will dance all your tunes
i’ll be seeing triple come morning
the poet, the historian, the singer
todd moore sent us
the sustaining waterholes
all chirp
yep
says me
and the hootenanny
hands me your card, todd
and i say
of
course
http://www.radiuslit.org/2011/03/15/poem-by-scott-wannberg/
http://home.earthlink.net/~duttons/ongoing.html
http://www.riprense.com/a%20verse%20to%20you.htm
Samuel Menashe (Sept 16, 1925 – 2011) American poet
http://www.archipelago.org/vol8-4/menashe.htm

Sites:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/sewing.html
http://www.trinitylimerock.org/structure/art_at_trinity.htm
http://www.infinityhall.com/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barnes/repulsive/repulsive.html
http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm

History:
0822
1787-The first successful trial run of John Fitch’s steamboat "Perseverance" on the Delaware River
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapitol/6238132455/lightbox/
1966- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC),/the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), was formed
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho
http://www.byington.org/carl/ruby/ruby6.htm

Bonus Poem:
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell

I hold my honey and I store my bread
In little jars and cabinets of my will.
I label clearly, and each latch and lid
I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.
I am very hungry. I am incomplete.
And none can give me any word but Wait,
The puny light. I keep my eyes pointed in;
Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt
Drag out to their last dregs and I resume
On such legs as are left me, in such heart
As I can manage, remember to go home,
My taste will not have turned insensitive
To honey and bread old purity could love.

by Gwendolyn Brooks

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