Skip to main contentResource added ![Christmas 1995 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this fifth list of Christmas-card padding: Publications inadvertently omitted from 1994 list: Poem "Dirty Old Man" in Poetry in Performance 22, poetry festival annual (The City College of New York), p. 124. Exhibition "44e Salon '94," 15-30 Oct. at Koekelberg, Belgium, presented by Le Cercle d'Art Eugene Simonis at the Maison Stepman Ruis. Included Godelieve Simons's engravings based on my poem "Negritude" and on my haiku "Inside a smooth stone." POETRY READINGS: 8 Feb., the American Library in Paris, part of the "Evening with an Author,, 15-19 Feb., "Transatlantic Passages" international conference series. of the Collegium for African American Research at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. (Conference organizers bad me close the proceedings with my reading my poem composed for the conference , "The Middle Passage Blues." 23 April, Tigh Johnny's Irish Pub in Montmartre ( where I sang one of my 7 songs from Whole Grain for the first time, "The Ballad of Safe Sex"). 18 Oct., the American Library in Paris , as part of its week-long celebrations of its 75th anniversary (other authors reading: Tana and Russell Hoban, John Baxter, Jerome Charyn, Diane Johnson, and Julian More). 8 Nov., same Library, again in "Evening with an Author" series, my firsttime- anywhere presentation of a program of "jazz haiku" (my creation), accompanied by Chansse Evanns on tbe saxophone. 21 Nov., l'Association Rencontres & Ateliers (its "Authors' Lecture Evening" series), in the Salle Cinema of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. Autobiographical narrative too. 26 Nov., Galerie J. et J. Donguy, Paris, as part of the presentation "L'Art Cantre la Peine de Mort" to raise funds for the defense of Mumia Abu Jamal. I read my booklet of haiku "dedie's 'a Mumia," accompanied by Chansse Evanns on the saxophone. (Other participants: soprano Jo Ann Pickens and playwright Andre Benedetto . ) PUBL]CATIONS (BOOKS AND POEMS IN JOURNALS): (1st item is book by me.) Reaching for Mumia: 16 Haiku (Paris: L'insomniaque editeur). On cover: "Poems written to raise funds for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." African American Review, XXIX, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 92. First "jazz haiku" ever printed: “The Haiku King," "Bojangles and Jo," and "Jazzanatomy." The Chariton Review, XXI, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 71. Rivals AAR next-above by printing "Jazz on the Move (a Haiku Sequence)." . Fathers and Children in Literature and Art, ed. Charles Sullivan (NewYork: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.). My "The Treehouse,'.' page 110, paired on page 111 with Paul Klee's The Tree of Houses as an illustration. GAAR [Collegium for African American Research] Newsletter No. 5 (Summer/ Fall 1995). Cover page taken up by my "The Middle Passage Blues." Summary of events of ''Transatlantic Passages" conference in Tenerife says: The final word of the conference was left to a visionary. James Emanuel had composed a poem for the occasion (included in this issue of the Newsletter). At the end of the debates and the entertainments and the ceremonials, he read "Middle Passage Man," a hallowed tribute to his slave grandmother and a renewed proof of African American genius ( page 5). • REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ESSAYS/ENTRIES ON ME: Not Important to me JAE. International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 11th ed., "1995/96" (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press). EXHIBITIONS CONTAINING MATERIAL RELATED TO ME: 13-28 May Brussels "Exposition/ Maison des Artistes." Showed Godelieve Simons's engravings on my "Negritude" and haiku " ••• smooth stone," plus works by Elio de Gregorio, Myriam Vandenhende, & Charlotte Vanden Eeckaut. MISCELLANEOUS: 2 Nov., Godelieve Simons continued her video documentary about me by filming the rehearsal #2 of Chansse Evanns and me, at 78 rue Amelot, Paris, for our 8 Nov. jazz-haiku gig at the American Library in Paris.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/1/9/5/195f891c-0393-4a15-a27d-4e95ae2c00d0/attachment/96ee9f2b914425f1e4de36f2444b8b42.jpg)
![Christmas 1995 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this fifth list of Christmas-card padding: Publications inadvertently omitted from 1994 list: Poem "Dirty Old Man" in Poetry in Performance 22, poetry festival annual (The City College of New York), p. 124. Exhibition "44e Salon '94," 15-30 Oct. at Koekelberg, Belgium, presented by Le Cercle d'Art Eugene Simonis at the Maison Stepman Ruis. Included Godelieve Simons's engravings based on my poem "Negritude" and on my haiku "Inside a smooth stone." POETRY READINGS: 8 Feb., the American Library in Paris, part of the "Evening with an Author,, 15-19 Feb., "Transatlantic Passages" international conference series. of the Collegium for African American Research at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. (Conference organizers bad me close the proceedings with my reading my poem composed for the conference , "The Middle Passage Blues." 23 April, Tigh Johnny's Irish Pub in Montmartre ( where I sang one of my 7 songs from Whole Grain for the first time, "The Ballad of Safe Sex"). 18 Oct., the American Library in Paris , as part of its week-long celebrations of its 75th anniversary (other authors reading: Tana and Russell Hoban, John Baxter, Jerome Charyn, Diane Johnson, and Julian More). 8 Nov., same Library, again in "Evening with an Author" series, my firsttime- anywhere presentation of a program of "jazz haiku" (my creation), accompanied by Chansse Evanns on tbe saxophone. 21 Nov., l'Association Rencontres & Ateliers (its "Authors' Lecture Evening" series), in the Salle Cinema of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. Autobiographical narrative too. 26 Nov., Galerie J. et J. Donguy, Paris, as part of the presentation "L'Art Cantre la Peine de Mort" to raise funds for the defense of Mumia Abu Jamal. I read my booklet of haiku "dedie's 'a Mumia," accompanied by Chansse Evanns on the saxophone. (Other participants: soprano Jo Ann Pickens and playwright Andre Benedetto . ) PUBL]CATIONS (BOOKS AND POEMS IN JOURNALS): (1st item is book by me.) Reaching for Mumia: 16 Haiku (Paris: L'insomniaque editeur). On cover: "Poems written to raise funds for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." African American Review, XXIX, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 92. First "jazz haiku" ever printed: “The Haiku King," "Bojangles and Jo," and "Jazzanatomy." The Chariton Review, XXI, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 71. Rivals AAR next-above by printing "Jazz on the Move (a Haiku Sequence)." . Fathers and Children in Literature and Art, ed. Charles Sullivan (NewYork: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.). My "The Treehouse,'.' page 110, paired on page 111 with Paul Klee's The Tree of Houses as an illustration. GAAR [Collegium for African American Research] Newsletter No. 5 (Summer/ Fall 1995). Cover page taken up by my "The Middle Passage Blues." Summary of events of ''Transatlantic Passages" conference in Tenerife says: The final word of the conference was left to a visionary. James Emanuel had composed a poem for the occasion (included in this issue of the Newsletter). At the end of the debates and the entertainments and the ceremonials, he read "Middle Passage Man," a hallowed tribute to his slave grandmother and a renewed proof of African American genius ( page 5). • REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ESSAYS/ENTRIES ON ME: Not Important to me JAE. International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 11th ed., "1995/96" (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press). EXHIBITIONS CONTAINING MATERIAL RELATED TO ME: 13-28 May Brussels "Exposition/ Maison des Artistes." Showed Godelieve Simons's engravings on my "Negritude" and haiku " ••• smooth stone," plus works by Elio de Gregorio, Myriam Vandenhende, & Charlotte Vanden Eeckaut. MISCELLANEOUS: 2 Nov., Godelieve Simons continued her video documentary about me by filming the rehearsal #2 of Chansse Evanns and me, at 78 rue Amelot, Paris, for our 8 Nov. jazz-haiku gig at the American Library in Paris.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/1/9/5/195f891c-0393-4a15-a27d-4e95ae2c00d0/attachment/medium-f4717e4282c8f863be6d0a2a0a71a88c.jpg)
Christmas 1995 Notes on Literary Happenings
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James Emanuel's 1995 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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