Skip to main contentResource added ![Christmas 1991 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanual) Dear Friends, Taking, for the first time, this economical (in terms of Energy, one of Blake's gods) means of padding my greeting cards, I submit these items: Works published: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press), reviewed so far only once, as far as I know (on the Book Page of The Richmond News Leader, the caption reading "Huge Poetry Collection Showcases Emanuel,"on 24 July. Alan Jenkins, poetry editor of The Times Literary Supplement, London, wrote a pleasant note to me, saying that my book was "under consideration for review." We'll see. Black American Literature Forum promises a summer 1992 review. Inedit , No. 47 (Dec. 1990), Brussels: poem "The Crooners," with a translation by Charles R.A. Melchers / "(Adaptation Raymond G.A. Quinot)" [who wrote a brief book on Langston Hughes in 1964]- Les Elytres du Hanneton, No. 112 (Sep. 1991), Brussels: poems "Crossing the Square, Montparnasse," with a translation by Jean Migrenne, and "The Young Ones, Flip Side," with a translation by Marvin Holdt. <- . . The Kenyon Review (see under Miscellaneous below) Poetry readings given: 6 Feb.: home of Michel Fabre, hommage a Langston Hughes, group of students and friends, including Ted Joans. Reading recorded. Paris. 18 April: Harambe Club's cultural show at "St. Louis Blues” cafe on rue Blomet, Paris. A woman whispered to me as I left, "Jill [Jill Bourdais de Charbonniere, Vice-Presidente, Arts Miusique Echange] says you're the best poet alive!" Jill is not a literary critic. 5 June: Festival Franco-Anglais de Poesie, Paris. Read my translations of two poems by Congolese poet Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, "Village Disparu" and "Pont et Confluent." 22 June & 7 Sep.: read two poems each time, at Association Grenier Jane Tony, Brussels, with French translations by Jean Migrenne read by Godelieve Simons, my Belgian graveuse. 18 Oct.: Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, Paris, first of the Fire Readings (title of anthology of readings in Paris, New York, Boston, and London to help rebuild the bookstore after the July 1990 fire; book has two of my poems, and my photo--reading--introduces the Paris section 23 Oct.: l'Atelier Blau gallery, Paris, second of tbe Fire Readings. 14 Dec.: Universite Paris Vll / Institut Charles V. Read with--and met for the first time--Barbara Chase-Riboud, Patricia Smith, Louis Rodriguez et al to end the 2-day "Lire en Amerique" conference there. Miscellaneous literary events: The Kenyon Review, N.S., XIII, 4 (Fall 1991): haiku and my first blues poem. Managing Ed. Martha Finan writes, "I LOVE 'Sittin'-Log Blues!"' Alice Vreeken, my Alliance, Nebraska,classmate-;-has vowed by January to publicize my poetry constantly. Her former name: Alice Pearson. Alliance's main library has bought all my books, and the town's new Carnegie Arts Center begins it Poetry Collection with Whole Grain. Translations of my poems into German begin with efforts by Sieghild Bogumil and Diana Schroeter-Al Nama; Diana's husband composed a guitar music rendition of my song "Everybody's Songbird." Godelieve Simons of Brussels exhibited engravings of my poems at Vaisonla- Romaine (April), for La Fondation our l'Art Bel e Contemporain (June) and at the Pareri gallery Oct. , both in Brussels. 11 April: book party in Caen for Foetes de New York Mosaique. Nathalie Maillard, a young painter there, mailed to me four water colors, for three of which I composed haiku on 20-21 May and sent them to her. 26 July: In this small apartment I crowded ten teachers and students touring from the USA (African American and African), who talked excitedly about literature and race, sipping wine. Dr. Norman Loftis, responsible for them, phoned me from Spain--but forgot to reimburse me 11 Oct.: Found Whole Grain on display at tbe huge Frankfurt Book Fair 12 at the New American Writing stand (plus Octavia, by Naomi Long Madgett, 12 Dec •• La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, Paris, offers me big wall space 500x220 cm to display European art, etc. created to illustrate my poetry, for the Feb. 1992 conference at the Sorbonne.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/8/b/d/8bd6e2d1-ae9f-432f-bc8f-f230b460ec2c/attachment/ca9d01c56fca02cc642056025bc50f04.jpg)
![Christmas 1991 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanual) Dear Friends, Taking, for the first time, this economical (in terms of Energy, one of Blake's gods) means of padding my greeting cards, I submit these items: Works published: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press), reviewed so far only once, as far as I know (on the Book Page of The Richmond News Leader, the caption reading "Huge Poetry Collection Showcases Emanuel,"on 24 July. Alan Jenkins, poetry editor of The Times Literary Supplement, London, wrote a pleasant note to me, saying that my book was "under consideration for review." We'll see. Black American Literature Forum promises a summer 1992 review. Inedit , No. 47 (Dec. 1990), Brussels: poem "The Crooners," with a translation by Charles R.A. Melchers / "(Adaptation Raymond G.A. Quinot)" [who wrote a brief book on Langston Hughes in 1964]- Les Elytres du Hanneton, No. 112 (Sep. 1991), Brussels: poems "Crossing the Square, Montparnasse," with a translation by Jean Migrenne, and "The Young Ones, Flip Side," with a translation by Marvin Holdt. <- . . The Kenyon Review (see under Miscellaneous below) Poetry readings given: 6 Feb.: home of Michel Fabre, hommage a Langston Hughes, group of students and friends, including Ted Joans. Reading recorded. Paris. 18 April: Harambe Club's cultural show at "St. Louis Blues” cafe on rue Blomet, Paris. A woman whispered to me as I left, "Jill [Jill Bourdais de Charbonniere, Vice-Presidente, Arts Miusique Echange] says you're the best poet alive!" Jill is not a literary critic. 5 June: Festival Franco-Anglais de Poesie, Paris. Read my translations of two poems by Congolese poet Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, "Village Disparu" and "Pont et Confluent." 22 June & 7 Sep.: read two poems each time, at Association Grenier Jane Tony, Brussels, with French translations by Jean Migrenne read by Godelieve Simons, my Belgian graveuse. 18 Oct.: Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, Paris, first of the Fire Readings (title of anthology of readings in Paris, New York, Boston, and London to help rebuild the bookstore after the July 1990 fire; book has two of my poems, and my photo--reading--introduces the Paris section 23 Oct.: l'Atelier Blau gallery, Paris, second of tbe Fire Readings. 14 Dec.: Universite Paris Vll / Institut Charles V. Read with--and met for the first time--Barbara Chase-Riboud, Patricia Smith, Louis Rodriguez et al to end the 2-day "Lire en Amerique" conference there. Miscellaneous literary events: The Kenyon Review, N.S., XIII, 4 (Fall 1991): haiku and my first blues poem. Managing Ed. Martha Finan writes, "I LOVE 'Sittin'-Log Blues!"' Alice Vreeken, my Alliance, Nebraska,classmate-;-has vowed by January to publicize my poetry constantly. Her former name: Alice Pearson. Alliance's main library has bought all my books, and the town's new Carnegie Arts Center begins it Poetry Collection with Whole Grain. Translations of my poems into German begin with efforts by Sieghild Bogumil and Diana Schroeter-Al Nama; Diana's husband composed a guitar music rendition of my song "Everybody's Songbird." Godelieve Simons of Brussels exhibited engravings of my poems at Vaisonla- Romaine (April), for La Fondation our l'Art Bel e Contemporain (June) and at the Pareri gallery Oct. , both in Brussels. 11 April: book party in Caen for Foetes de New York Mosaique. Nathalie Maillard, a young painter there, mailed to me four water colors, for three of which I composed haiku on 20-21 May and sent them to her. 26 July: In this small apartment I crowded ten teachers and students touring from the USA (African American and African), who talked excitedly about literature and race, sipping wine. Dr. Norman Loftis, responsible for them, phoned me from Spain--but forgot to reimburse me 11 Oct.: Found Whole Grain on display at tbe huge Frankfurt Book Fair 12 at the New American Writing stand (plus Octavia, by Naomi Long Madgett, 12 Dec •• La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, Paris, offers me big wall space 500x220 cm to display European art, etc. created to illustrate my poetry, for the Feb. 1992 conference at the Sorbonne.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/8/b/d/8bd6e2d1-ae9f-432f-bc8f-f230b460ec2c/attachment/medium-18db96fd5c1d18df4e553635d4795add.jpg)
Christmas 1991 Notes on Literary Happenings
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James Emanuel's 1991 annual "Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year." He included these "Notes" of his literary engagements in his Christmas Cards between 1990 and 2006.
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- container titleJames A. Emanuel Papers
- creatorJames A. Emanuel
- issueBox 14 Folder 7 Biographical Materials, 1987-2003, 2007, undated
- rightsJames A. Emanuel Estate
- rights holderJames A. Emanuel Estate
- version1991