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Strafford Notes, 15 October, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:03:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Halfway though another month.....

October 15
Events:
Oct 15 Portland Port Veritas Open Mic featuring An Evening with Sixties Writer & Punk Icon: John Sinclair With The Hardy Boys & The Part Time Buddhas 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
Oct 15 Newmarket Zion Hill Reading & Open Mic at 6:30. The featured poet is Portland Maine's own Crystal Farrington! 5 Granite St, atthetopofthehillat The Stone Church

Born:
1015
Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (0070 – 09/21/0019 BC) Roman writer / poet The Aeneid
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Virgil
Allan Ramsay 1686?- Jan 7, 1750 Scot Augustan poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/ramsay-allan
Helen Maria Fiske, Hunt Jackson 1830 – 08/12/1885; American novelist / Poet Ramona
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/jackson-helen-hunt
Tides
O patient shore, thou canst not go to meet
Thy love, the restless sea, how comfortest
Thou all thy loneliness? Art thou at rest,
When, loosing his strong arms from round thy feet,
He turns away? Know'st thou, however sweet
That other shore may be, that to thy breast
He must return? And when in sterner test
He folds thee to a heart which does not beat,
Wraps thee in ice, and gives no smile, no kiss,
To break long wintry days, still dost thou miss
Naught from thy trust? Still wait, unfaltering,
The higher, warmer waves which leap in spring?
O sweet, wise shore, to be so satisfied!
O heart, learn from the shore! Love has a tide!
http://www.poemhunter.com/helen-hunt-jackson/poems/

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 8/25/1900)Germ writer, philosopher God is dead
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Nietzsche
(Sir) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881– 02/14/1975) English/American comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright - Jeeves novels
http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/
Baron C harles P ercy Snow (1905 – 07/01/1980) British novelist and scientistThe Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/are_we_beyond_the_two_cultures/
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 04/29/2006) Canadian-US economist and political writer
http://www.johnkennethgalbraith.com/
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), historian and winner of the 1946 Pulitzer The Age of Roosevelt
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/books/review/Dowd-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Passed:
1015
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi,(Sept 24,1547-1595) -Persian-Dutch E indies poet
http://persian.packhum.org/persian/bio?anum=0007
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (March 5, 1658 –1730) French explorer and adventurer in New France,
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Cadillac.htm
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14,1802-38) Eng writer / poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/landon-letitia-elizabeth
William Soutar (April 28, 1898 -1943) Scot poet
http://www.williamsoutar.com/
Cole Porter (06/09/1892–1964) US songwriter I've Got You Under My Skin
http://www.coleporter.org/bio.html
James Phillip McAuley (Oct 12, 1917-1976) Australian poet [Ern Malley hoaxer ]
Credo
That each thing is a word
Requiring us to speak it;
From the ant to the quasar,
From clouds to ocean floor-

The meaning not ours, but found
In the mind deeply submissive
To the grammar of existence,
The syntax of the real;

So that alien is changed
To human, thing into thinking:
For the world's bare tokens
We pay golden coin,

Stamped with the king's image;
And poems are prophecy
Of a new heaven and earth,
A rumour of resurrection.
http://www.poemhunter.com/james-phillip-mcauley/poems/
http://www.ernmalley.com/
Sites:
http://www.justuschickens.net/
http://www.thethepoetry.com/2013/02/poem-of-the-week-lauren-k-alleyne/
http://littledutchbook.wordpress.com/
http://www.pplp.org/PL/Poetrys-Heart.htm
http://www.reverbnation.com/bobpope
http://www.actonenh.org/

History:
1015
1972, Jackie Robinson attended a World Series game that included a commemoration for the twenty-fifth anniversary of breaking the color line
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1952, E. B. White's Charlotte's Web was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=10/15/2013
1924- André Breton published his first “Manifesto of Surrealism”
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Manifesto.htm
1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40716F73D5D137B93CBA91783D85F428685F9
1764- Edward Gibbon first conceives of writing the decline and fall of the city Rome
http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/home.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edward_gibbon.html
Bonus Poem:
TIME-PIECE

Caught, caught is the wild cuckoo
That sang among the flowers;
They have prisoned him in a dark prison
To count them the hours.
Between the dawn and the dim evening
Twelve songs must he sing,
That men may reckon the day's passing
And the passing of Spring.
O they have shattered the soul of April
And slain the heart of May,
Because they have stolen the wild cuckoo
To tell the time of day.
And wearily sings the wild cuckoo,
Wearily sings he now,
Because his heart would cease from singing
And his throat knows not how.
by "Jan Struther"
(Joyce Maxtone Graham, 1901-1953)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/betsinda/betsinda.html#26

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