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Strafford Notes, 1 November, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013 9:13:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

All Saint's Day....

Nov 1
Events:

Nov 1th Exeter –First Friday Coffeehouse – 7:00 pm /Sign-up for performers starts at 6:30 PM. Featuring Musicians Kevin Higgins and Barbara Malteze, - Ghosts of the American Road followed by open mike, Bring a dessert. Coffee and tea will be provided. – First Unitarian-Universalist Society, 12 Elm Street (Parish Hall) Bob Moore, 642-4648 or bmoore628.comcast.net
Oct. 18-Nov. 2, Poems: In A Larger Frame, Monadnock Center for History and Culture, Peterborough, Opening Reception, FRiday, October. 18 (Call for hours) co-sponsored by Monadnock Writers Group,Monadnock Center for History and Culture and Toadstool Books.
http://monadnockcenter.org/visual-poetry-exhibit/
Born:
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 – 03/13/1711) French writer -poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/nicholas-boileau-despreaux/
Grantland Rice (1880 – 07/13/1954) US writer
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/35596.html
David Jones (1895- Oct 28 1974) British painter and modernist poet
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/08/david-jones-poet-war-eliot
Stephen Crane (1871 – 06/05/1900) US writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/crane-stephen
Sholem Asch (1880 – 07/10/1957) Polish-Yiddish writer
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/pakn-treger/06-12/tug-war-sholem-asch-and-his-translators
Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-Jan 20,1974) English poet, author and critic. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/blunden
Nordahl Grieg (1902-42 )Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, and journalist
From Til Ungdommen (To The Youth)

We all deserve the world,
Harvest and seed
Hunger and poverty
Are born of greed

Don’t turn your face away
From needs of others
Reach out a helping hand
To all your brothers

Here is our solemn vow,
From land to land
We will protect our world
From tyrants’ hand

Defend the beautiful,
Gentle and innocent
Like any mother would
Care for her infant.
© Nordahl Grieg. All rights reserved
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8627391-Til-Ungdommen--To-The-Youth--by-Nordahl_Grieg
Walter Martin Baumhofer ( 1904 - Sept23, 1987) American illustrator for the pulp magazines
http://www.pulpartists.com/BW2.html
Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (1915-11/21/2010) African-American artist and writer
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1yTfZUgTvlpcnpqNEFYVVRqdmc/edit
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/burroughs-margaret-1917
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/margaret-burroughs-chicago-shero
http://www.peoplesworld.org/dr-margaret-burroughs-1917-2010-once-asked-what-will-your-legacy-be/
Zenna Chlarson Henderson (1917 – May 11, 1983) American science fiction and fantasy novella and short story author, and an elementary school teacher
http://www.philsp.com/articles/pastmasters_04.html
Gordon R. Dickson (1923 – 01/31/2001) Canadian S-F writer
http://scifan.com/writers/dd/DicksonGordon.asp
Bill Anderson (1937 – ) US singer, songwriter
http://billanderson.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=56
Shere Hite (1942 – ) US researcher, writer (The Hite Report)
http://www.hiteresearchfoundation.org/home.aspx
Kinky Friedman (1944 – ) US singer, songwriter
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/index.html
Rick Roman Grech, (1946- March 17, 1990).bass, Family, Traffic, Airforce. (1970 album 'John Barleycorn Must die'). Blind Faith, (1969 UK & US No.1 album 'Blind Faith').
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/upload/blind_faith_1409.jpg
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rick-grech-mn0000855048/biography
Lyle Lovett, 1957- American country singer-songwriter and actor
http://www.lylelovett.com/
Passed:
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Alfred Jarry (09/08/1873 –1907) French "pataphysical" writer
http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/mcgurn/jarry.html
Dale Carnegie (11/24/1888 –1955) US writer
http://manybooks.net/titles/carnegieda16311631716317-8.html
Robert Staughton Lynd (09/26/1892 –1970) US writer
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_staughton_lynd.html
Ezra Pound (10/30/1885 –1972) US poet
from Villanelle: The Psychological Hour

Two friends: a breath of the forest. . .
Friends? Are people less friends
because one has just, at last, found them?
Twice they promised to come.

"Between the night and the morning?"
Beauty would drink of my mind.
Youth would awhile forget
my youth is gone from me.

(Speak up! You have danced so stiffly?
Someone admired your works,
And said so frankly.

"Did you talk like a fool,
The first night?
The second evening?"

"But they promised again:
'To-morrow at tea-time'.")

Now the third day is here -
no word from either;
No word from her nor him,
Only another man's note:
"Dear Pound, I am leaving England."

http://www.internal.org/Ezra_Pound/Villanelle_The_Psychological_Hour

http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/hemingway-writes-of-his-friend-the-fascist-ezra-pound-he-deserves-punishment-and-disgrace-1943.html
http://wffernand.wix.com/youronlineprof/apps/blog/commentary-on-the-poem-villanelle-the-psychological
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4598/the-art-of-poetry-no-5-ezra-pound
Paul Frees June 22, 1920 -1986 US animation voice (Bullwinkle)
http://www.reelyredd.com/0107mynativeland.htm
Louis Albert Johnson (1924 — 1988) New Zealand poet
http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=77
Walter Payton (07/25/1954 –1999) US football player
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?PLAYER_ID=174
William Styron (06/11/1925 –2006) US writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836612/
Jacques Piccard, (7/28/1922-2008) Swiss oceanographer and engineer
http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=119615457
Claude Levi-Strauss (11/28/1908 –2009) French philosopher
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Agustín García Calvo, (1926-2012)Spanish philosopher and poet
http://fidelalonso.wordpress.com/digital-poetry/above-all-i-want-you-to-be-free/
http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/agustin_garcia_calvo.html
Sites:
http://www.jordanwwei.com/the-poets-curse.html
http://www.treasury.gov/about/history/Pages/agallatin.aspx
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/taylor-810 http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/event/2761
http://mlq.dukejournals.org/
History:
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1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nm_xWvPlo
1895- Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure was published
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=11/01/2013
1896 – A picture showing a woman’s bare breasts appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/19/10-things-before-end-of-world
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov01.html
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, N.M.
http://www.hcc.commnet.edu/artmuseum/anseladams/details/moonrise.html
1952 –The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, at the Eniwetok atoll
http://www.helis.com/stories/eniwetok.php
1956 – Springhill Mining Disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia
http://www.brautigan.net/pill.html
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/390386334354?lpid=82
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens
http://www.naic.edu/public/descrip_eng.htm
Bonus Poem:
Haiku
It’s cold—and I wait
For someone to shelter me
And take me from here.

I hear crackling
Crunch, of today’s new found day
And know it won’t last

Falling to the ground,
I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown.

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-haiku-poems.html
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