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Strafford Notes, 29 August, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:54:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

It's a good day for a poem....or several....

to tunamelttunafe.
August 29
Events:
Aug 29, Manchester, SlamfreeOrDie presents NPS semifinalist Aaron Samuels! – open mike slam poetry, Milly’s Tavern, 7-11pm ($3 cover, Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, bridgepoetry.gmail.com , 500 Commercial Street, https://www.facebook.com/slamfreeordie
Coming Up-
Sept 14,Franconia at 6:00 PM. The 2013 Poetry Reading Series at The Frost Place -The Hyla Brook Poets will read their most recent work. All readings are free and open to the public. Email: frost.frostplace.org Web: www.frostplace.org

Born:
0829
John Locke, (1632 – 10/28/1704) English philosopher (Essay on the Human Understanding)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 -10/07/1894) US writer, scientist, scholar The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/holmes-oliver-wendell
http://archive.org/stream/poemsofoliverwen00holmiala/poemsofoliverwen00holmiala_djvu.txt
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 – 05/06/1949) Belgian playwright and poet ;1911 the Nobel Prize for Literature LASSITUDE
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/maeterli.htm
Charles F. Kettering (1876-Nov 25,1958 ) US engineer Invented the electric starter
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/kettering.html
Valery Larbaud ( 1881-Feb2 ,1957 ) Novelist Poèmes par un riche amateur

ALMA PERDIDA

To you, vague aspirations, enthusiasms,
Thoughts after lunch, emotional impulses,
Feelings that follow the gratification
Of natural needs, flashes of genius, agitation
Of the digestive process, appeasement
Of good digestion, inexplicable joys,
Circulatory problems, memories of love,
Scent of benzoin in the morning tub, dreams of love,
My tremendous Castilian joking, my vast
Puritan sadness, my special tastes,
Chocolate, candies so sweet they almost burn, iced drinks,
Drowsy cigars, you, sleepy cigarettes,
Joys of speed, sweetness of being seated, excellence
Of sleeping in total darkness,
Great poetry of banal things: news items, trips,
Gypsies, sleigh rides, rain on the sea,
Delirium of feverish nights, alone with a few books,
Ups and downs of temperature and temperament,
Recurring moments from another life, memories, prophecies,
O splendors of the common life and the usual this and that,
To you this lost soul.

English translation © Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky
www.alligatorzine.be | © alligator 2008
http://www.alligatorzine.be/pages/051/zine54.html
Charlie Parker (the Bird) (1920 – 03/12/1955) American alto saxophone player, a founder of the bebop jazz style
http://americanjazzmuseum.org/exhibitions/charlie-parker-memorial/
Dinah Washington ( 1924, - Dec 14,1963)African-American blues singer
(1959 single 'What A Diff'rence A Day Makes', 1961 single 'September In The Rain').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dinah-washington-mn0000260038
Thomas Nicholas Scortia (, 1926 - April 29, 1986) US science fiction author
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778743/
Thom son William Gunn( 1929 –April 25,2004) Anglo-American poet The Man with Night Sweats
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/109
Michael Jackson (1958 – 06/25/2009) African-American singer, dancer, songwriter, , The Jackson Five, The Jacksons, and solo. Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. The music videos for 'Beat It', 'Billie Jean', and 'Thriller', are credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. His 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/MichaelJackson/michael-jackson-ruled-world-summer-1984/story?id=10991135
Passed:
0829
John Fletcher (12/20/1579 –1625) English writer/playwright /Collaborator with Francis Beaumont
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/fletcher-john
Catharine Parr Traill, Strickland (Jan 9,1802 –1899) English-Canadian author
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27239/27239-h/27239-h.htm
Melvin BEAUNORUS Tolson (Feb 6, 1898 –1966) Black-American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/tolson/bio.htm
Kazi Nazrul Islam ( (25 May 1899 –1976), sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary ; the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India.
http://nazrul.org/nazrul_works/poems_bangla.htm

Archie Campbell ( Nov 7,1907- 1987) Actor Hee Haw
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/archie-campbell/id213133810
Kathleen Mary Norton née Pearson (Dec 10, 1903 –1992) English author of children's books.
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=105

The Inscription On The Headstone reads:

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumnal rain.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

Extract from a poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye
John Holloway (1920 –1999) English poet, critic and academic
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet_read.aspx?ID=8296
http://english.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/153/235.extract
Sites:
http://www.aprweb.org/about
http://www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/index.html
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/
http://www.thenation.com/ebooks#axzz2cRTNFu5f
https://subscribe.thenation.com/pubs/NN/NAN/NAN_CollegeOffer_March2013.jsp?cds_page_id=133321&cds_mag_code=NAN&id=1377687602881&lsid=32400600028042116&vid=1
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBGEZDM/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=httpwwwaintia-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00EBGEZDM&adid=1MRC7Q8E57SAGD814EMR&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Faintiawriter.blogspot.com%2F#reader_B00EBGEZDM

History:
0829

1833- The Mills and Factory Act was passed in England
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/29/2013
http://www.thepotteries.org/dates/work.htm
2005- Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana
77-year-old Fats Domino was rescued from the flooding in New Orleans
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Bonus Poem:

My Powers

Petition the drums I am doing things
with my bare mind alone I cannot
levitate
white fallow deer or glitter the air with birdcall links

but successes do pile up—who moves friends
great distances
just by not thinking of them?

Who pulls loneliness silking
from every cocktail conversation?

This poem is pathetic.
I made you think that!

Whereas tenderness is the force taken
to melt a silver teaspoon
back onto itself,

unshaping it
for anyone else’s use,
guess who escapes our mutual embraces
quicker, my dead mother or me.

At a certain age, one should be done disappointing oneself.
The trick is never explained.

“Call me back!” my phone machine winks
cheery as a bomb. I watch it

from the other side of the room, deliberating.
Connection, solitude--
when will the future just shut up?

I would no more look directly at a plane
carrying the mortal enormity of flight & blue sky on its back

than stand under an icicle
depending from the eaves
with a baby in my arms, held up, in early spring.

Dorothy Barresi
http://www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=238:two-po..

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