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Strafford Notes, 14 September, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:06:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Quiet day, football on the tube....Your poetry fix for today...

Sept 14
Events:
September 14, 2013 Nashua Poetry In The Park 11:00am until 2:00pm Greeley Park Bandshell Bring your lunch and join us for poetry readings, live music, discussions, and book signings! Featured readings by: Sidney Hall Jr., Rodger Martin, Alice Fogel, J. Kates, John Perrault, B. Eugene McCarthy, Patricia Fargnoli, and James Fowler. An open mic will take place at noon with signups beginning at 11:30. 100 Concord St Nashua, NH 03064 kirsty.hobblebush.charter.net
Arts:
Sept 14 Chichester, at the Chicester Library on Main Street. Reception 10 to 1 pm ; original paintings done by Nanci Aguiar, Jean Elliot and Eleanor Corliss , Light refreshments will be served …The Art Exhibit for the month of September- You may view the exhibit anytime the library is open: Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 -8:30 Tuesday and Thursday, 10 -1:30 Friday, 1:30 -4:30 Saturday, 9 -12 noon.
http://www.chichesternh.org/Public_Documents/ChichesterNH_Library/townlibrary
Celebration:
Sept14 Portsmouth BrewsterfestII Jackson Warfield’s party with music, poetry and (presumably) copious quantities of chilled, fermented beverages…

Born:
0914
Ivan Pavlov (1849 – 02/27/1936) Russian scientist
http://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html
[Hannibal]Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), US Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, short-story writer, and poet THE MOUNTAINS ARE A LONELY FOLK A Son of the Middle Border
Boyish Sleep
AND all night long we lie in sleep,
Too sweet to sigh in, or to dream,
Unnoting how the wild winds sweep,
Or snow clouds through the darkness stream
Above the trees that moan and sign
And clutch with naked hands the sky.
Beneath the checkered counterpane
We rest the soundlier for the storm;
Its wrath is only lullaby,
A far off, vast and dim refrain.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/garland1.html

Margaret Sanger (1883 – 09/06/1966) US nurse, founder of Planned Parenthood
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0057.html
Mae Boren Axton, the 'Queen Mother of Nashville'( 1914 - April 9, 1997), songwriter ,she wrote over 200 songs including a co-writing credit on the Elvis Presley hit 'Heartbreak Hotel'.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mae-boren-axton-mn0000811994/biography
Michel Butor (1926- ) French novelist and essayist
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/butor.htm
Martin Caidin (1927 – March 24, 1997) American author on aeronautics and aviation
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128780/
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/caidin_martin
Ivan Klíma (1931). Polish writer-novels& plays (Waiting for Dark, Waiting for Light, Love and Garbage), 1970, The Castle
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/02/ivan-klima-interview
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934- 2002).US Jehovah's Witness, journalism on the side, and in 1978, Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses. Off Center (1980) and The Astonishing World (1992)
http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Grizzuti-Harrison/e/B000APILG0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1379148795&sr=8-2
Geraldine Brooks (1955). Australian journalist and novelist
http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/
Amy Winehouse (1983 – 07/23/2011) English singer, songwriter 2007 No.1 album 'Back To Black’, 2006 single 'Rehab').
http://www.amywinehouse.com/
Passed:
0914

Dante Alighieri (05/21/1265 –1321) Italian writer
http://www.worldofdante.org/
James Fenimore Cooper, (Sept 15, 1789 – 1851) American writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm
William McKinley (01/29/1843 –/1901) US President (25)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/wmckinley.html
Richard Gary Brautigan (Jan 30, 1935 – 1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer; 1967
http://web.archive.org/web/20080802210227/http://www.kerouacalley.com/brautigan.html
http://www.brautigan.net/poetry.html
"Moonlight on a Cemetery"

Moonlight drifts from over
A hundred thousand miles
To fall upon a cemetary.

It reads a hundred epitaphs
And then smiles at a nest of
Baby owls.
First Published The Northwest's Own Magazine. October 11, 1953: 10.

http://www.brautigan.net/poetry.html#uncollected
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1863233/
John C Gardner ,July 21, 1933- 1982 US writer Grendel
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3394/the-art-of-fiction-no-73-john-gardner
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/14/2013
Patrick Swayze (08/18/1952 -2009) US actor
http://www.amazon.com/Time-My-Life-Patrick-Swayze/dp/B003D7JVIE
Sites:
http://www.catholicboy.com/index.php
http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry.html
http://stmarksbowery.org/
http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/Kamay-Botany-Bay-National-Park/Cape-Solander/lookout
http://www.deseretnews.com/home
http://www.villageprofile.com/states/nh_main.html

History:
0914
1638- John Harvard, Charlestown, Massachusetts died, leaving his library & his estate to a local college
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1752 - US & England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/calendar-development-modern-calendar.html
1814- Francis Scott Key spent the night of Sept 13-14 as the British shelled Baltimore
http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/
1955-At a recording break, Little Richard entered New Orlean’s the Dew Drop Inn for lunch. Richard started playing the piano in the bar like crazy, singing a loud and lewd version of ‘Tutti Frutti.’ With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, ‘a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.’
http://www.knowla.org/entry/1465/
Bonus Poem:

The Coloured Hours

GRAY hours have cities,
Green hours have rhymes
Of hearts grown loving
In old summertimes,
But the white hours have only
A cloud in the sky
And a star, bright and lonely,
To remember them by.

Gold hours have laughter,
Red hours have song
Drawn from lost fountains
Of beauty and wrong.
But the white hours,–O, tender
As rose-flakes they lie,
With youth's fallen splendour
To remember them by.
Marjorie Pickthall
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/pickthall/wife/wife.html

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