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Strafford Notes, 13 November, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:05:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

If my Susan were still alive, she would be 64 today...l...,,.

to Steven
Nov 13
Events:
Nov 13 Laconia Laconia Public Library special poetry evening “Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward” Starting at 6:30.The two featured poets are local widely-published prize-winning Charlotte Cox and Barbara Bald. After the reading there will be time to meet the poets and an Open Mic. 695 Main Street http://www.laconialibrary.org/
Nov 13 Exeter– 6:30 – 8:30pm – Water Street Bookstore– Kimberly Cloutier Green & Shelley Girdner are features; followed by open mike (778-9731 (bookstore) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com)
Nov 13 Durham UNH Jason Tandon’s reading at Hamilton Smith Hall (that's the English building) in room 101.Free & Open to the publichttp://jasontandon.com/ http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2008/11/poet-jason-tandon-from-high-school.html
http://jasontandon.com/2013/11/07/upcoming-reading-university-of-new-hampshire/
Born:
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William Shenstone (1714-Feb 11,1763 ) Eng Augustan Garden designer / Shropshire poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/shenstone-william
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-Nov 5, 1879) Scot, physicist /author/ science writer/ poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/maxwell-james-clerk
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Maxwell.html
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 12/03/1894) Scottish author - fiction & travel books, essayist, & poet http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/stevenson-robert-louis
http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/robert.louis.stevenson.asp
Antonio Porchia (1885 – 11/09/1968) Italian-Argentinian poet /writer
voices

Don’t speak to me. I want to be with you.
The dream that doesn’t feed on dream vanishes
I want because of what I wanted, and what I wanted, I wouldn’t want again.
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
There are pains that have lost their memory and don’t remember why they are painful.
There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.
We don’t forgive being as we are.
At the last moment, my whole life will last a moment.
–translated from the Spanish by Gonzalo Melchor
http://bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com/
https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BDD46A561-898B-4CBF-95C6-C01708EF84E7%7D
http://hellinakiss.blogspot.com/2013/04/antonio-porchia-master-of-aphorisms.html
Eugene Ionesco, (1909-March 28,1994) French dramatist The Bald Soprano (1950), Together with Samuel Beckett, Ionesco helped create the "Theater of the Absurd" movement in Paris. Rhinoceros (1960).
http://www.ionesco.org/vie-en.html

Passed:
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Thomas May (1594/5 – Nov 13, 1650) English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance
The History of the Long Parliament
http://archive.org/stream/lucancivilwarboo00lucauoft/lucancivilwarboo00lucauoft_djvu.txt
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/844
Arthur Hugh Clough (01/01/1819 –1861) English scholar,writer -poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/clough-arthur-hugh
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Clough%2C%20Arthur%20Hugh%2C%201819-1861&c=x
Francis Thompson (12/18/1859 –1907) English writer
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/thompson-francis
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Thompson%2C%20Francis%2C%201859-1907
‘Saki’ Hector Hugh Munro (12/18/1870 –1916) Scottish writer
http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/
Babette Deutsch (Sept 22, 1895 –1982) American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/159760/Babette-Deutsch
http://allpoetry.com/Babette%20Deutsch
Jack Gilbert (Feb18, 1925 –2012) American poet

In Dispraise Of Poetry

When the King of Siam disliked a courtier,
he gave him a beautiful white elephant.
The miracle beast deserved such ritual
that to care for him properly meant ruin.
Yet to care for him improperly was worse.
It appears the gift could not be refused.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1275
Sites:
http://www.bloomfieldct.org/Plugs/home.aspx
http://www.cdshishi.net/its/
http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/06/kate-buckley.html
http://www.johnperrault.com/
http://www.moma.org/
https://archive.org/stream/magnaliachristia00math/magnaliachristia00math_djvu.txt
History:
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1775- General Richard Montgomery led American troops in the capture of Montreal
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1789- Benjamin Franklin wrote "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/11/nothing-is-certain-except-death-and.html
1797- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge conceive "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=11/13/1797
1961 - The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was released
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2006/03/26/solomon-linda-songwriter-who-penned-the-lion-finally-gets-his-just-desserts/
http://www.animalmusica.com/lyrics-for-the-tokens-the-lion-sleeps-tonight
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/courses/2012/487/1-Extra%20Readings/WagnerPacificiSchwartz.pdf
http://thewall-usa.com/

Bonus Poem:

Rondeau at the Train Stop

It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay
drifting toward me on the T stop, the train
circling the city like a dingy, year-round
Christmas display. The Puritans were right! Sin
is everywhere in Massachusetts, hell-bound
in the population. it bothers me
because it's summer now and sticky - no rain
to cool things down; heat like a wound
that will not close. Too hot, these shameful
percolations of the body that bloom
between strangers on a train. It bothers me
now that I'm alone and singles foam
around the city, bothered by the lather, the rings
of sweat. Know this bay's a watery animal, hind-end
perpetually raised: a wanting posture, pain
so apparent, wanting so much that it bothers me.
Erin Belieu
http://webdelsol.com/belieu/erin-pt1.htm
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