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Strafford Notes, 17 October, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:50:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

"It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood..."

October 17
Events:
October 17-19, Boston, MA: As part of the Boston Book Festival, dozen of authors and publishing professions will give presentations, including Jennifer Militello, Tomi dePaola, and former NHWP presenters Jane Yolen, Paul Harding, Tom Perrotta, and Andre Dubus III. For more information, visit the Boston Book Festival’s website.
October 17 Manchester, – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features Charles Lacerte & Slam #4! and open mike ; 647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com
October 17 Effingham – 7-9pm – Effingham Town Library, Effingham - Writer’s Night Featuring poet Mimi White and author Don Litchko ;Open Mic Follows; FMI call the Library at 539-1537, or Katie McCarthy at 539-7694 or 651-9796
October 17 Portsmouth -Beat Night at the Press Room-The Scary Edition:Featuring Tammi Truax & Mark Michael Adams At 7:pm; WITH The Beat Night Band –Scip Gallant,Scott Solsky,Cris Stambaugh,Mike Barron,and Frank Laurino; 8 pm open mic with Host Heather Elizabeth; 77 Daniel St Portsmouth ;431-5186, www.portsmouthnh.com/pressroom
Born:
1017
Jupiter Hammon (1711 – before 1806) the first African-American writer /poet to be published in the present-day United States
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/12/
Elinor Sutherland Glyn (1864 –Sept 23,1943), British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in risqué romantic fiction
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323325/
http://www.online-literature.com/elinor-glyn/

Nathanael Nathan von Wallenstein Weinstein West (1903 – December 22, 1940), American author, screenwriter and satirist
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm

Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (1914 – Jan 28, 1996) , American co-creator of Superman (along with Joe Shuster)
http://www.dcindexes.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796950/
Christian Karlson Stead, (1932- ) New Zealand writer - novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism
http://culturalicons.co.nz/episode/c.k.-stead
Alan Garner (1934- ) English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241337/
http://alangarner.atspace.org/
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7707
Leslie Allan Murray,(1938- ), Australian poet, anthologist, and critic
http://lesmurray.org/
http://www.qualm.co.uk/maincq.html#lmurray6
from The Instrument
Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment.
For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike
down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment.
For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb
before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond
your own intelligence. For not needing to rise
and betray the poor to do it. For a non-devouring fame.
Little in politics resembles it: perhaps
the Australian colonists’ re-inventing of the snide
far-adopted secret ballot, in which deflation could hide
and, as a welfare bringer, shame the mass-grave Revolutions,
So axe-edged, so lictor-y.
Was that moral cowardice’s one shining world victory?
Breathing in dream-rhythm when awake and far from bed
evinces the gift. Being tragic with a book on your head.
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2002-shortlist/les-murray/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/murray.htm
Robert Jordan pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (1948 – Sept 16, 2007) American writer - fantasy novels, including the bestselling The Wheel of Time series

http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/blog/4-robert-jordans-blog/

Passed:
1017
Sir Philip Sidney (Nov30,1554-1586 )English Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier

http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=10/17/2013
http://www.sonnets.org/sidney.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidney.htm
William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869-1910) American dramatist & poet
From The Golden Journey
But these things he will barely view,
Or if he stay to heed them, still
But as the lark the lights that spill
From out the sun it soars unto,
Where, past the splendors and the heats,
The sun's heart's self forever beats.

For wide the brazen doors will swing
Soon as his sandals touch the pave;
The anxious light inside will wave
And tremble to a lunar ring
About the form that lieth prone
Before the dreadful altar-stone.

She will not look or speak or stir,
But with drowned lips and cheeks death-white
Will lie amid the pool of light,
Until, grown faint with thirst of her,
He shall bow down his face and sink
Breathless beneath the eddying brink.

Then a swift music will begin,
And as the brazen doors shut slow,
There will be hurrying to and fro,
And lights and calls and silver din,
While through the star-freaked swirl of air
The god's sweet cruel eyes will stare.

http://allpoetry.com/William_Vaughn_Moody
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-vaughn-moody

Katherine Mansfield, a pseudonym for Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (October 14, 1888-1923 ) New Zealander Short-story writer and poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/mansfield-katherine

Sites:
http://www.prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
http://www.straffordcommunitycalendar.com/KAboutSCC.htm
http://anti-poetry.com/
http://www.gangleri.nl/bookreviews/
http://m.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20131016%2FLIFE%2F310160301%2F1006%2FENTERTAIN&template=wapart

History:
1017

1823, President James Monroe sought advice from Thomas Jefferson on what became the Monroe Doctrine
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Bonus Poem:
PERFECT

at the end of a perfect day
those simple people looking for love
left scars on twilight

there must be a perfect sleep
in which angels tend certain
blossoming privileges

when the perfect crime happens
clocks will be on time
trains will start moving

a perfect flame in amber
war’s guests
gather around it keeping warm

stage hushed, perfect moon rising
the pharmacist is preparing
a total poison of time

© Bei Dao

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© Translation: 2001, David Hinton and Yanbing Chen From: Landscape Over Zero Translator's Note: Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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