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Strafford Notes, August 23b, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013 8:44:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

I thought YESTERDAY was August 23!!!

Steven Manning
6:08 AM (6 hours ago)

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August 23
Events:StuffComingUp-
AUG. 24 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
Aug 25 Kittery Me. Ekphrasis: Face & Figure -Opening Reception for a viewing of the art, a reading of the poems & some savory hors d'oeuvres; 4 to 6pm at The Kittery Art Association (poetry reading at 5pm) This exhibit includes paintings and sculpture that are paired with original poems. The poetry chapbook that accompanies this show will be available for sale and signing. Off Rte 103 (Pepperrell Road), just south of Captain & Patty's on Coleman Ave. ,Kittery point ,Me. http://www.kitteryartassociation.org/index.html
Aug 27nd 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:
0823
William Ernest Henley (1849 – 07/11/1903) English poet, critic, and editor
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Henley%2C%20William%20Ernest%2C%201849-1903
Edgar Lee Masters(1869- March 5,1950) US poet, playwright and novelist author of Spoon River Anthology
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/masters-edgar-lee
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Masters%2C%20Edgar%20Lee%2C%201868-1950
Sophie Kerr (1880-Feb 6, 1965 ) US magazine editor and a writer short stories, novels, poems and a play that ran on Broadway. The Sound of Petticoats
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449805/
Will am Jacob Cuppy (1884 – 09/19/1949) American humorist and journalist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/cuppy.htm
Malvina Reynolds, (1900 – March 17, 1978) American folk singer/songwriter Little Boxes
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/malvina-reynolds-mn0000669015
The World's Gone Beautiful

The world's gone beautiful because it's about to die.
I never saw such flower faces or so intent a sky.
I never heard such lines from horns or violins,
Or saw such lavish girls, such dandy boys,
And I know why.
It's that the world is asking not to die.
I never saw such hands flexing like silver leaves,
I never knew such air, or leaned to so good a breeze.
Even the tears I cry, they aren't salt but clear,
For sea birds riding the wind calling their last,
Their wild goodbye.
The world is asking not to die.
I want to hold this world and never let it go,
I want the sun to always rise on the kids next door.
Whether I go or stay, that question still abides,
Posed by rainbows in the river spray.
What answer do you give
A world that asks so bitterly to live?
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/poetmenu.htm
Muhammad Yamin (1903- Oct 17, 1962) Indonesian historian, poet, playwright, and politician,
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/yamin.htm
Gene Kelly (1912 – 02/02/1996) US dancer, actor, director, singer...
http://life.time.com/culture/gene-kelly/#1
Nazik al-Mala'ika1922-June 20,2007 Iraqi poet and critic
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/malaika.htm
Keith Moon,(1947-Sept 7,1978) drums, The Who, (1965 single 'My Generation' plus over 20 other Top 40 hits, 1967 single 'I Can See For Miles' and rock opera albums 'Tommy' & 'Quadrophenia')
http://hub.yourtakeonmusic.com/hub/2412
Michelle McGrane (1947- ) Brit poet
http://www.laurahird.com/showcase/michellemcgrane.html

Passed:
0823
William Wallace (c.1270 -1305 ) scot rebel
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/23/2013
http://www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/intro.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/
http://www.thesocietyofwilliamwallace.com/story.htm
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, ( 1785 –1819) American naval hero,
http://www.battleoflakeerieart.com/perry.php
Oscar Hammerstein II (07/12/1895 -1960) US lyricist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358564/
R.onald D.avid Laing (10/07/1927 -1989) English psychiatrist
There Is Something I Don't Know
There is something I don't know
That I am supposed to know.
I don't know what it is I don't know,
And yet am supposed to know,
And I feel I look stupid
If I seem both not to know
And not to know what it is I don't know.
Therefore, I pretend I know it.
This is nerve-wracking
Since I don't know what I must pretend
To know.
Therefore, I pretend to know everything.
I feel you know what I am supposed to know
But you can't tell me what it is
Because you don't know what I don't know
What it is.
You may know what I don't know, but not
That I don't know it.
And I can't tell you. So you will have
To tell me everything.
- R. D. Lang in Knots
http://www.finseth.com/parts/know.php
Alfred Eisenstaedt (12/06/1898 -1995) German-American photographer and photojournalist.
http://life.time.com/culture/is-this-the-happiest-photo-ever-made/?iid=lf%7Clatest#1
Sites:
http://rkgaron.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/bits-and-pieces/
http://frostplace.org/jillosierpoem/
http://vimeo.com/59297344
http://www.cosmoetica.com/S&D.htm
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

History:
0823
1864- the Union navy captured Fort Morgan, Alabama
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1963-Beyond the Fringe, the British comedy show that became model and inspiration for so many others, debuted at the Edinburgh Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccbnsc5tyAs

Bonus Poem:
BLUEFLAGS
I stopped the car
to let the children down
where the streets end
in the sun
at the marsh edge
and the reeds begin
and there are small houses
facing the reeds
and the blue mist
in the distance
with grapevine trellises
with grape clusters
small as strawberries
on the vines
and ditches
running springwater
that continue the gutters
with willows over them.
The reeds begin
like water at a shore
their pointed petals waving
dark green and light.
But blueflags are blossoming
in the reeds
which the children pluck
chattering in the reeds
high over their heads
which they part
with bare arms to appear
with fists of flowers
till in the air
there comes the smell
of calamus
from wet, gummy stalks.
William Carlos Williams

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