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Strafford Notes,26 August, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013 8:50:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Today''s helping of news and views from Skip.

August 26
Events:Coming Up-
Portsmouth Sept 4th (1st Wednesday of the month) – Doors open at 6:00 …7-9 pm – Café Espresso, Portsmouth – Portsmouth Poetry Hoot – Features Terry Farish & Jennifer Militello followed by open mike (772-4345, http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm

Born:
0826
Christopher Columbus (/1451 – 05/20/1506) Italian explorer
http://voices.yahoo.com/15-interesting-facts-christopher-columbus-4636349.html
John Buchan (1875 – 02/11/1940) Scottish writer
http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Buchan%2C%20John%2C%201875-1940
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/26/2013
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 11/09/1918) French writer - poet and movie critic’
http://allpoetry.com/Guillaume_Apollinaire
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Apollinaire.htm
Louis Henri Jean Farigoule Jules Romains, (1885 – August 14, 1972), French poet and writer - novelist/playwright and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/r/jules_romains.html
Marguerite Peggy Guggenheim (1898- Dec 23,1979 ) US Socialite & art collector
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/features/society-celeb/article/-/5869429/peggy-guggenheim-mistress-of-modernism/
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/museum/peggy.html
Christopher Isherwood (1904 – 01/04/1986) Anglo-American novelist and playwright The Berlin Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Isherwood/e/B001HD2XE0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1377508631&sr=8-3
Julio Cortázar(1914-84) Argentine, writer novelist and poet
http://upliterature.com/two-poems-by-julio-cortazar/
Elizabeth Brewster (1922- ),Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and poet 1995, Footnotes to the Book of Job
http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Brewster.htm

from "Where I Come From"

Where I come from, people
carry woods in their minds, acres of pine woods;
blueberry patches in the burned-out bush;
wooden farmhouses, old, in need of paint,
with yards where hens and chickens circle about,
clucking aimlessly; battered schoolhouses
behind which violets grow. Spring and winter
are the mind's chief seasons: ice and the breaking of ice.

A door in the mind blows open, and there blows
a frosty wind from fields of snow.

http://climbingtree.blogspot.com/2006/09/elizabeth-brewster-where-i_115931321900135566.html
Passed:
0826
William James (01/11/1842 1910) US writer, psychologist
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/wjames.html
Franz Werfel (09/10/1890 -1945) German writer- poet, playwright, and novelist
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fwerfel.htm
Mercedes Negrón Muñoz"Clara Lair" (March 8, 1895 – 1973), Puerto Rican poet
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/conexion/lair_clara.html
Charles A. Lindbergh (02/04/1902 -1974) US aviator
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/docs/index.php/charles-lindbergh
Irving Stone (07/14/1903-1989) US writer
http://www.shelfari.com/authors/a368/Irving-Stone/books
Ronald Ronnie White (April 5, 1939 -1995) Singer/Songwriter The Miracles
From "You Beat Me To The Punch"
That day, I first saw you passing by
I wanted, to ask your name but I...was much too shy
But I was looking at you so hard
That you must have had a hunch.
So you came up to me and asked me my name.

You beat me to the punch
That time
You beat me to the punch
Yes you did.

After, I had known you for what seems like a long, long time
I wanted, wanted to ask you would you please, please be mine
Whenever you came around, my heart would pound
So you must have had a hunch.
So you came up to me and asked me to be yours.

You beat me to the punch
One more time
You beat me to the punch
Yes you did.
By Ronnie White / Smokey Robinson
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11318004
John Kilian Houston Brunner (Sept 24, 1934–1995) British author of science fiction novels and stories.
http://www.rudysbooks.com/brunnerobit.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2194585/pg1
David Myers (1914 -2004,) US Cinematographer… worked of various music films including Woodstock, Elvis On Tour, The Last Waltz, The Grateful Dead Movie, Mad Dogs & Englishmen and Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29829#.UhskGKbD_dc

Sites:
http://www.joannemerriam.com/
http://www.waterkeeper.org/
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Default.aspx
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.friendsoftheoxbownwr.org/index.html
http://thewisdomletters.com/page/2/
History:
0826
1791- John Fitch and James Rumsey, rivals battling over claims to the invention, each were granted a federal patent for the steamboat.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1873 - 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/b/blow/index.html
1961 - Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
http://www.originalhockeyhalloffame.com/

Bonus Poem:
Leaves
I went looking for God
but I found you instead.
Bad luck or destiny,
you decide.

Buried in the muck,
the soot of the city,
sorrow for an appetite,
devil on your left shoulder,
angel on your right.

You, with your thorny rhythms
and tragic, midnight melodies.

My heart never tried
to commit suicide before.

Originally published in Literati Magazine, Winter 2005 Copyright © Lisa Zaran, 2005
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poet/lisa_zaran

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