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Strafford Notes, 31 October, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:49:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Happy Halloween...

urs ago)

to Steven
Events:
10/31 Manchester – 7 pm –11, Milly’s Tavern,– Slam Free or Die – The First Annual Monologue Open Mic, a feature by Amir Safi, and SLAM #5! $3,00 cover ,at 500 Commercial St.(858-3286 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com

Born:
1031
John Keats (1795 – 02/23/1821) English writer-poet "Ode on a Grecian Urn” http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/pkt1710h.htm
From To Hope
In the long vista of the years to roll,
Let me not see our country's honour fade:
O let me see our land retain her soul,
Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom's shade.
From thy bright eyes unusual brightness shed—
Beneath thy pinions canopy my head!
Let me not see the patriot's high bequest,
Great Liberty! how great in plain attire!
With the base purple of a court oppress'd,
Bowing her head, and ready to expire:
But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings
That fill the skies with silver glitterings!

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 – 02/02/1972) US writer /expatriate in Paris-
playwright, poet and novelist
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/natalie_barney.php

Passed:
1031

Theodore Cordy Freeman (Feb 18, 1930-1964) NASA astronaut and a captain in the U S A F
http://archive.is/20120805224730/http://www11.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/freeman-tc.html
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/freeman_theodore.htm
from If I Was an Astronaut
If I was an astronaut,
I’d climb into my suit,
Then in my shiny rocket,
Up to the stars I’d shoot.
From my little launchpad,
I’d fly up into space,
To cruise between the planets,
With starlight on my face.
-Josh Gill
http://joshgill.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/poem-if-i-was-an-astronaut/
Studs Terkel (03/16/1912 –2008) US writer Working
http://www.petelit.com/studs-terkel-working/

Sites:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Scribners-1919aug-00228
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1050
http://theotherpages.org/poems/index.html
http://omniverse.us/poetry-renee-ashley/SlamFreeorDie.gmail.com, call 603-858-3286 or visitwww.facebook.com/slamfreeordie603-858-3286 or visitwww.facebook.com/slamfreeordie on the Web. Milly's Tavern is located next to Arms Park at 500 Commercial Street in Manchester, NH.
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Contact us:
SlamFreeorDie.gmail.com
Facebook.com/SlamFreeorDie
Twitter.com/SlamFreeorDie
http://www.bartleby.com/237/29.html
http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20131021/99/b4/58/45/4815a2a848720d257e4cade9/November_2013_events.pdf
http://www.alapn.com/en/
http://www.bpl.org/research/adultbooklists/option_b_monthy_trivia.pdf

Bonus Poem:

Practice

To weep unbidden, to wake
at night in order to weep, to wait
for the whisker on the face of the clock
to twitch again, moving
the dumb day forward—

is this merely practice?
Some believe in heaven,
some in rest. We’ll float,
you said. Afterward
we’ll float between two worlds—

five bronze beetles
stacked like spoons in one
peony blossom, drugged by lust:
if I came back as a bird
I’d remember that—

until everyone we love
is safe is what you said.

by Ellen Bryant Voigt
.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19488#sthash.aYJX8V6t.dpuf

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