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Strafford Notes 10 September 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 10:15:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

In addition to the below please note an exhibition of art by NH poets/artists Nancy Aguiar and Eleanor Corliss at the Chichester Public Library throughout the month of September. There will be a meet and greet reception this Saturday, September 14, from 10 AM to 1 PM.

Sept 10
Events:
Every Tuesday – Portland Port VERITAS Open Mic featuring At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101 All Ages – $2 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30 www.portveritas.com
Born:
0910
Carter Braxton, 1736 - Oct. 10, 1797 US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/declaration/bio4.htm
Isaac Kauffman Funk, (1839-1912 ). US Lutheran minister / founder of the Funk and Wagnalls publishing house, which published the Standard Dictionary of the English Language
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Funk%2C%20Isaac%20K.%20(Isaac%20Kaufman)%2C%201839-1912
Alice Brown Davis, (1852 –June 21,1935) Seminole chief
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/D/DA017.html
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 – 05/14/1966) African-American poet, playwright, and composer
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/douglas-johnson/life.htm
Hilda Doolittle(1886-1961), H.D., American imagist poet
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/234
Georges Bataille (1897-1952) French essayist, philosophical theorist and novelist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bataille.htm
Franfo Fortini (1917 – 11/28/94), Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual
From Communism

I was a communist throughout.
Justly though, the other communists
looked askance at me. I was a communist
despite their certainties, despite my doubts.
Justly they did not see themselves in me.
.
They would not admit my discipline.
My centralism seemed anarchy to them.
My self-criticisms contradicted theirs.
Special communists cannot be:
to think so is not to be so.
.
Justly they did not see themselves in me,
my comrades. Like them, I too
was enslaved. Even more so: I tended to forget it.
They did their work, I followed my inclination.
Exactly that: I was a communist throughout.
http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/2011/08/poem-communism-1958-by-franco-fortini.html
Arnold Palmer (1929 – ) US golfer
http://www.sandhills.org/plantation/golf/palmer.htm
Roger Maris (1934 – 12/14/1985) US baseball player
http://www.rogermarismuseum.com/
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), US paleontologist, zoologist, and essayist who wrote science for the layperson- The Panda's Thumb, a collection of essays ; Full House
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/original.html
Mary Oliver (1935- ) US 1984's Pulitzer Prize winning poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-oliver
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Oliver/e/B000APELGO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1378802460&sr=8-1

Passed:

Amy Levy (Nov 10, 1861-89)Victorian Brit feminist Jewish poet and novelist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/levy-amy
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Aug 17, 1840-1922) English poet and writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/blunt-wilfrid-scawen
from The Old Squire
I like the blackbird’s shriek, and his rush
From the turnips as I pass by,
And the partridge hiding her head in a bush,
15
For her young ones cannot fly.

I like these things, and I like to ride,
When all the world is in bed,
To the top of the hill where the sky grows wide,
And where the sun grows red.
20

The beagles at my horse heels trot
In silence after me;
There ’s Ruby, Roger, Diamond, Dot,
Old Slut and Margery,—

A score of names well used, and dear,
25
The names my childhood knew;
The horn, with which I rouse their cheer,
Is the horn my father blew.

I like the hunting of the hare
Better than that of the fox;
30
The new world still is all less fair
Than the old world it mocks.

I covet not a wider range
Than these dear manors give;
I take my pleasures without change,
35
And as I lived I live.

I leave my neighbors to their thought;
My choice it is, and pride,
On my own lands to find my sport,
In my own fields to ride.
http://www.bartleby.com/246/871.html
Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips, (May 4, 1928- 1961) German racing driver
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/tragedy-in-grand-prix
http://www.automobil-rennsport-museum.de/
Dalton Trumbo (12/09/1905 –1976) US writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/trumbo.htm
Ronnie Peterson, (Feb14,1944-1978 ) Swedish race car driver
http://en.espnf1.com/march/motorsport/driver/921.html
Amy Clampitt (1920-94) US / Brit poet
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-clampitt

Sites:
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.secondave.com/
http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php
http://animalsinallcaps.tumblr.com/
http://www.poetrusselljones.blogspot.com/
http://www.urbanwildlifeguide.net/
History:
0910
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/cbhf/colonial/col001.html
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1856 - Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke "On the Affairs in Kansas" in Cambridge, for aid of John Brown and the anti-slavery movement
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/10/2013
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of 13 spectators
http://www.grandprixphoto.com/?e=95
2008-The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/accelerators/large-hadron-collider

Bonus Poem:
Mary's Intercession:
"Oh, thought to set the coldest heart on fire ;
Oh, thought to cheer the most despondent breast ;
A thousand times within the regions blessed —
A thousand times the bright angelic choir
Have heard my name in accents of desire,
To Jesus' ear, by Mary's lips addressed :
And always coupled with some grand request,
Some grace, not all my life-toil could acquire ;
And with such pleading in her voice and eyes,
Persuasive grace, maternal majesty,
That He, who ne'er her slightest wish denies —
Although the boon be far too great for me,
Unworthy as He knows me - He replies,
'As thou dost will, My Mother, let it be.'"

- Sister Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy, O.S.D.
http://forums.catholic-convert.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=142224

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