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Strafford Notes, 26 September, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:00:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Sorry I missed yesterday. I was out of synch all day.

September 26
Events:
Sept 26, Manchester – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, – SLAM FREE OR DIE presents a feature by Robbie Q Telfer! and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com)
Sept 26 Concord Banjos, Bones, and Ballads 12 p.m., Centennial Senior Center - Smokestack Center, 254 N. State St. Traditional songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, present the latest news from the distant past. Tavern songs, banjo tunes, 18th century New England hymns, sailor songs, and humorous stories about traditional singers and their songs highlight this informative program by Jeff Warner. Contact: Emily or Lori, 228-6630 http://www.nhhc.org/index.php
Born:
0926
John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed , (1774 - March 18, 1845), frontier nurseryman
http://www.theappleseed.com/
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:.field(NUMBER+.band(g4094f+pm001940))
Max Ehrmann (1872-Sept 9,1945) American writer, poet, and attorney / 1927 prose poem "Desiderata"
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/177071.Max_Ehrmann
Ghulam Bhik Nairang, (1876 – Oct16,1952) Indian lawyer, poet, and politician
http://www.nairang.org/
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-01/04/1965) ) American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize for literature 1948
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/eliot-thomas-stearns
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tseliot.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/199/
William Empson (1906-April 15,1984 ) Eng critic / poet Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n10/frank-kermode/the-savage-life
Jane Smiley (1949- ) US writer, Pulitzer Prize
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1339.Jane_Smiley
Mick Ogilvie Imlah (1956-Jan 12,2009 ) Scottish poet
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mick-imlah-poet-acclaimed-for-the-thematic-range-and-exuberance-of-his-work-1419304.html
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=mick+imlah&tag=mh0b-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=1465700931&ref=pd_sl_5udtpxwz3t_b
from alex
Day of the show,
this louse, this lizard guy, he hauls me in,
clips off his big cigar, and says straight out,
Torbit, you won't be going in with the Iceberg –
So I ask, why? – He tells me, the man's dead, –
stabbed in the ribs, out in the Begelstrasse,
heat of an argument – money, a lady –
some yarn. Would you believe it? Never mind,
he says, we've filled his stool for you – sure, a
third of the purse. I ask him, what's he like?
He shrugs. Does he care? – Says, he's big, he's thick,
could be good, could be rubbish. And that's been
my watchword ever since. This great lump,
I had to hold him up to knock him down,
I never boxed again. You want the lamb?"
http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#mimlah
Mark Haddon (1962- ) English novelist and poet, 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
http://www.markhaddon.com/
Passed:
0926
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn,/ Koizumi Yakumo(June 27, 1850 –1904), international writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372499/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16261/16261-h/16261-h.htm
Katherine Harris Bradley (co-author "Michael Field";( 1848- 1914) for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). co-author "Michael Field"
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/m_field.html
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/learned_poets/Field_L.htm
Maidenhair

Plato of the clear, dreaming eye and brave
Imaginings, conceived, withdrawn from light,
The hollow of man's heart even as a cave.
With century-slow dropping stalactite
My heart was a dripping tedious in despair.
But yesterday, awhile before I slept:
I wake to find it live with maidenhair
And mosses to the spiky pendants crept.
Great prodigies there are--Johovah's flood
Widening the margin of the Red Sea shore,--
Great marvel when the moon is turned to blood
It is to mortals, yet I marvel more
At the soft rifts, the pushings at my heart,
That lift the great stones of its rock apart.
Michael Field
(Katherine Bradley: 1846-1914, Edith Cooper: 1862-1913)
http://poetry.eserver.org/Field(Maidenhair).html

Harriet Monroe (12/23/1860 –1936) US poet
http://modjourn.org/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=1202232622296875
Hugh John Lofting(Jan 14, 1886 –1947) British author /poet
http://puddleby.tripod.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1154/1154-h/1154-h.htm
George Santayana (12/16/1863–1952) Spanish American philosopher, poet and humanist
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/santayana-george
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/santayan.htm
Sites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43739/43739-h/43739-h.htm
http://thewisdomletters.com/
http://www.amethystarsenic.com/index.php
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
http://mysocialtees.com/products/right-wing-conspiracy
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/09/22/read-one-of-kofi-awoonors-final-poems/
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/14-ways-to-use-the-learning-network-this-school-year/?_r=0
http://themetapicture.com/things-are-somehow-different-in-canada/

History:
0926
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep26.html
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/bigshow.htm
1926- William Butler Yeats composes Sailing to Byzantium
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/sailing-byzantium
1957 - West Side Story opened on Broadway
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/26/2013
1960- the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_3104000/3104393.stm
1969- The Beatles released 'Abbey Road'
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/abbey_road
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_2539000/2539049.stm
Bonus Poem:
AUTUMN
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest moon, suspended
So long beneath the heaven's o'er-hanging eaves;
Thy steps are by the farmer's prayers attended;
Like flames upon an altar shine the sheaves;
And, following thee, in thy ovation splendid,
Thine almoner, the wind, scatters the golden leaves!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1365/pg1365.html

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