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Strafford Notes, 11 September, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:24:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Remember the day.....

September 11
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Events:
2nd Wednesday of the month – 6:30 – 8:30pm – Water Street Bookstore, Exeter – Features Susan Stafford, also known as Bedell Phillips when she writes poetry. Bedell has authored a collection of poetry entitled Edges of Waves.
After the featured reader, the floor is available for an open mic. Come early to sign up, and bring one to two poems only.
followed by open mike (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com)
Sept 11 Chicago Poetic Muses: Britten, Auden and Sitwell
7:00PM Poetry Foundation 61 West Superior Street Free admission This is a free event…open seating available the night of the performance on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open 30 minutes before a program. Programs typically last one hour. Featured performers in this salon are soprano Kiera Duffy, pianist and CAIC executive director Shannon McGinnis, and tenor and CAIC artistic director Nicholas Phan. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Born:
0911
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522- March 10, 1805) Pioneering Italian entomologist and naturalist
http://books.google.com/books/about/Four_centuries_of_the_word_geology.html?id=Ip-rAAAACAAJ
http://www.filosofia.unibo.it/aldrovandi/default.htm
James Thomson (1700 – 08/27/1748) Scottish writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/thomson-james
Joanna Baillie (1762- Feb 23,1851) ) Scot poet 7 Playwright Family Legend
http://theliterarylink.com/bailliepg.html
William Sydney Porter / O. Henry (1862 – 06/05/1901)- American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings The Gift of the Magi
http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/
David Herbert Lawrence, (1895 – 03/02/1930) Eng. novelist/poet
From Tortoise Shout
I remember, when I was a boy,
56 I heard the scream of a frog, which was caught with his foot in the mouth of an up-starting snake;
57 I remember when I first heard bull-frogs break into sound in the spring;
58 I remember hearing a wild goose out of the throat of night
59 Cry loudly, beyond the lake of waters;
60 I remember the first time, out of a bush in the darkness, a nightingale's piercing cries and gurgles startled the depths of my soul;
61 I remember the scream of a rabbit as I went through a wood at midnight;
62 I remember the heifer in her heat, blorting and blorting through the hours, persistent and irrepressible;
63 I remember my first terror hearing the howl of weird, amorous cats;
64 I remember the scream of a terrified, injured horse, the sheet-lightning
65 And running away from the sound of a woman in labor, something like an owl whooing,
66 And listening inwardly to the first bleat of a lamb,
67 The first wail of an infant,
68 And my mother singing to herself,
69 And the first tenor singing of the passionate throat of a young collier, who has long since drunk himself to death,
70 The first elements of foreign speech
71 On wild dark lips.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/lawrence-david-herbert
http://www.online-literature.com/dh_lawrence/
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/11/2013
Edward Reed Whittemore (1919-April 6,2012 ) American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor.US Poet Laureate from 1964 to 1965 and again from 1984 to 1985
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reed-whittemore-former-poet-laureate-dies-at-92/2012/04/09/gIQAzvqx6S_story.html?hpid=z14
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/whittemore/
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/102638/few-ways-pulling-apart-poem
Leon Rooke 1934- , Canadian writer and novelist, , author of Shakespeare's Dog, the story of Shakespeare's life as told by his dog, Mr. Hooker.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/29/books/trotting-around-stratford.html
http://www.amazon.com/Leon-Rooke/e/B001HPFY8K/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/leon-rooke/

Passed:
0911
Robert William Service (Jan 16, 1874-1958) Canadian Bard
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/service-robert-w
http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/robert_service.htm
2001 WTC NY,NY RIP
From TheFreeDictionary
Excluding the hijackers, 2,974 people died as an immediate result of the attacks with another 24 missing and presumed dead
The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people from 93 nations. 2,753 people were killed in New York, 184 people were killed at the Pentagon and 40 people were killed on Flight 93.
From- http://www.911memorial.org/faq-about-911
Jim Carroll (Aug 1, 1950 - 2009) Author The Basketball Diaries
Praying Mantis
Look at it
It's all blank
The face in the photograph
Too dark for features
But the praying mantis
Just so clear
Its forelegs fingering my hair
And it's there in focus on my shoulder
It teaches me my true name
It gives me this message:

Do not strike the low chord,
Lest its vibration awaken the halls of Maya.
It instructs me on the ways when need be to hide
It awakens the serpent inside to throb, to burn
It pulls the arrow from my ear
And it whispers, whispers, whispers a last word
What seems the last vapors of a long dream
Like Baraka wrote, like James Brown sings
Whispers, "please, please, please."
, from Fear of Dreaming
http://www.catholicboy.com/by_carroll.php
Kevin McCarthy (Feb 15, 1914 –2010) American stage, film, and television actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002994/
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=52112

Sites:
http://www.ecampus.com/village-400-years-beats-bohemians-radicals/bk/9780062078193
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html
http://www.poetrusselljones.blogspot.com/
http://arts.heraldtribune.com/
http://appleseed.org/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1676417.Jesmyn_Ward/blog
History:
0911
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wallace.htm
1802- The Morning Post publishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Hymn before Sunrise" (1802)
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/hymn-sun-rise-vale-chamouni
1850- Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, -"the Swedish nightingale," made her American debut in New York City
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/musdi:.field(DOCID+.lit(M24370))
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by members of Al Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.
http://www.911memorial.org/

Bonus Poem:

AGE

Where the old lamp swings from a hook
And monstrous spiders look
Out from the corners of each broken pane,
Where their dingy webs have lain
From spring to spring,
Gathering
Dirt, and hollow eyes
And wings of luckless flies :

There an old and smiling man
Labours out his span
Of days that shorten fast, and they all three.
Lamp and man and window be
Time worn,
Battered, shorn
Long ago of pride,
Ageing side by side.

But a dusty splendour drifts
Through the panes, and shifts
Along the bench as seasons travel by
And when without in freezing sky
Day falls dead,
The lamp will shed
O'er his tools a ring
Lit for labouring.

And the years, one after one

See the same work done
Slower only, but with heart as great,
Eye still true, back straight,
With need but this
For worldly bliss, —

Tools, a store of wood
And each day's task made good.

RUTH MANNING-SANDERS

http://archive.org/stream/twelvepoetsmisce00thom/twelvepoetsmisce00thom_djvu.txt

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