Christmas 1999 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 1999 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, POETRY READINGS: I submit this ninth list of Christmas-card padding: 13 Jan.: American Library in Paris, my jazz-blues-gospel-haiku reading to open the 11th annual Jazz Homage to Martin Luther King, accompanied by __ festi val organizer Chansse Evanns on the saxophone. 6 March: at the night club Il baffo della Gioconda, in Rome , sponsored by L'Associazione culturale Controchiave and by Acoma (Rivista internazionale di_studi nordamericani), my reading entitled by Italian organizers "Blind Date: Jazz haiku meets music," accompanied by Davide Grottelli with saxophones, and Riccardo Duranti and Anamaria Crowe Serranoreading their transla tions in I italian and Spanish. 18-21 March: The Collegium for African American Research's conference, "Black Liberation in the Americas," The Westfalische Wilhelms- Universitat in Munster, Germany, the opening-night entertainment being my jazz-blues-gospel-haiku reading with Chansse Evanns on the accompanying saxophone and Executive Board member Fritz Gysin reading Sieghild Bogumil's German translations. On 19 March at MUnster City Hall, I read poems along with Melba Joyce Boyd, Lorenzo Thomas et al. 18 April: The Live Poets Society's program at The Merry Fiddler pub in Montmartre, my poetry reading along with Gerard Mangan ( plus his own guitar accompaniment ) and George Vance. 29 April: . What a poster called "A conference with the poet" in "Ampbi 2 E 0411 turned out to be the longest reading of my lifetime: 2 h1ou/rs2 s trhaioghutr, sin clsudtinrg aquestions from the audience. Prof. Anne Luyat, who had invited me to Avignon, wrote me on 4 May, starting witb "You took tbe city by storm! ... We await your return.. .. " 6 May: Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III, programme "Echos de la Renaissance de Harlem," ending with my reading poems by Langston Hughes and some of my own, witb saxophone music by Chansse Evanns. 4 June: Ecole Normale Superieure Fontenay-aux-roses, international poetry conference on urban, life ( in suburb of Paris), including my reading haiku with Chansse Evanns. Jean MigreBne read his French versions. 7 June: Universite de Paris VII, a II journee d' e'tudes" program called "Jazz et Litterature, 11 including a poetry-and-jazz performance by Cbansse and meresembling the Fontenay-aux-roses presentation; 10 June: Avignon. again, its Centre Europeen de Poesie, in featuring me as its "Thursday Guest" discussing in French the question "Did the abolition of slavery really take place?" caused the second miracle in my life, my sustained use of a language beyond my competence at a difficult level in public--followed by my jazz-blues-gospel haiku reading, supported by saxophonist Jean-Yves Huguet. BOOK PUBLISHED: JAZZ from the Haiku King (Detroit: Broadside Press), the first of its kind, revealing a new literary genre ( jazz-and-blues-and-gospel haiku) in 6 languages (English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian) with illustrative engravings by Godelieve Simons of Brussels. POEM IN JOURNAL: "Nightmare" in Poetry in Performance 27, Annual Spring Poetry Festival anthology, The City College of New York, p. 111. ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE POEMS: 10-26 Dec. 98: Museum of International Contemporary Art, Santa Catarina, Brazil, celebrating "50 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” G. Simons' wood engraving illustrating JAE's poem "Deadly James (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)" was included. 14-31 Jan. 99: 55th Salon JECTA at Abbaye de Forest in Brussels shows JAE's haiku illustrating G. Simons' 5-engraving series "Variations sur un rythme noir." 3-16 April: UFACSI (Union Feminine Artistique et Culturelle-Salons Internationaux) exposition "Ligne, lumiere, cooleur" at Hotel de Ville in Lille shows Numbers I and II of G. Simons' "Variations ... " 6 May: Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III poetry reading-with music, as above, displayed G. Simons' "Variations sur un rythme noir."

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James Emanuel's 1999 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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