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Strafford Notes, 20 October, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:40:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Beautiful Sunday....I hope you are enjoying as much as I am.

October 20
Events:
October 20, Cambridge MA: The New England Poetry Club will feature readings by the NEPC prize winners. At 3 p.m., Cambridge Public Library (617-744-6034; www.nepoetryclub.org).
October 20, Dublin: Poets Howard Faerstein and Kathleen Aguerro will celebrate their new books as part of Autumn Oracles. Social and sign-up to participate in the open reading at 2:30 p.m. At Del Rossi’s Trattoria.
Born:
1020
Thomas Hughes (1823 – 03/22/1896) English writer Tom Brown's School Days
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/h/u/g/hughes_t.htm
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 11/10/1891) French writer /poet Une Saison en Enfer
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/r/arthur_rimbaud.html
John Dewey (1859 – 06/01/1952) U S Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdewey.htm
Frederick Dannay (1905 – 09/03/1982) US mystery writer Ellery Queen," with Manfred Lee
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?161208
Leslie Purnell Davies (1914-Jan 6, 1988) British novelist -horror, science fiction and mystery
http://open.salon.com/blog/schopenhorror/2010/01/27/writers_you_never_heard_of_lp_davies
Philip Glenn Whalen (1923 – 26 June 2002) American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.
http://bigbridge.org/Site/Text/Mark_O_P.html
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/whalen/
Art Buchwald (1925 – 01/18/2007) US journalist
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-A-Bu-and-Obituaries/Buchwald-Art.html
Mickey Mantle (1931 – 08/13/1995) US baseball great Twelve times in the World Series
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mantlmi01
Michael McClure (1932-) American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcclure.htm
http://www.michael-mcclure.com/
Haiku
SMELL
OF SMOKE
I
N
the
rain;
mem
o
ries
of snowflakes
and lightning
http://web.archive.org/web/20070702095447/http://www.levity.com/interbeing/mmhaiku.html

Wanda Jackson (1937 – ) U S first female rock and roll singer
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wanda-jackson-mn0000814606
Robert Pinsky (1940- ) American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/200
http://poemsoutloud.net/poets/poet/robert_pinsky/
Lewis Grizzard (1946 – 03/20/1994) US comic
http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/landmarks/grizzard.htm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lewis_grizzard.html
Elfriede Jelinek (1946- )Austrian novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in literature/2004.
The Piano Teacher (1983), Die Klavierspielerin
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jelinek.htm
Tom Petty 1950- U S Musician Don't Come Around Here No More
http://www.tompetty.com/
Jeb Bradley 1952- Congressman from New Hampshire, 2003-07
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/jeb_bradley/400045
Diana Rowland (1966- )U S urban fantasy writer
http://www.dianarowland.com/
Passed:
1020
Charles Babbage (12/26/1792 –1871) English mathematician
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Babbage.html
Sir Richard Francis Burton (03/19/1821 –1890) British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat.
http://www.sirrichardfrancisburton.org/rfb_home.html
Charles Dudley Warner (09/12/1829 –1900) U S writer Harper's editorialist
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28821/28821-h/28821-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3178/3178-h/3178-h.htm
Eugene Debs (11/05/1855 –1926) US labor organizer
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eugene_v_debs.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdebs.htm
Fred E. Ahlert (Sept 19, 1893-1953) U S Composer
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C34
Herbert Hoover (08/10/1874 –1964) US President (31)
http://millercenter.org/president/hoover
Burt Lancaster (11/02/1915 –1994) US actor Elmer Gantry
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000044/
Anthony Hecht (Jan 16,1923-2004) US poet
Peripeteia
Of course, the familiar rustling of programs,
My hair mussed from behind by a grand gesture
Of mink. A little craning about to see
If anyone I know is in the audience,
And, as the house fills up,
A mild relief that no one there knows me.
A certain amount of getting up and down
From my aisle seat to let the others in.
Then my eyes wander briefly over the cast,
Management, stand-ins, make-up men, designers,
Perfume and liquor ads, and rise prayerlike
To the false heaven of rosetted lights,
The stucco lyres and emblems of high art
That promise, with crude Broadway honesty,
Something less than perfection:
Two bulbs are missing and Apollo’s bored.
http://www.poemhunter.com/anthony-evan-hecht/poems/
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hecht/hecht.htm
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken (Feb, 25, 1918–2007) American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel
http://www.amazon.com/Peg-Bracken/e/B001IXRWEA
Bob Guccione (12/17/1930 –2010) US magazine editor
http://guccionecollection.com/mistress-gennifer/
Sites:
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.limerock.com/
http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/
http://www.braindash.com/
http://mainewriters.org/
http://www.pplp.org/
History:
1020
1803- the Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Bonus Poem:
The Moon

A yellow circle
Like cheese hanging from the sky
A cold night watcher
Stefana Aicoboaie
http://users.sch.gr/milliospap/blog/index.php/our-poems/haiku-poems?start=8

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