Christmas 1998 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 1998 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this eighth list of Christmas-card padding: Entries learned too late for the 1997 list: Poem "A Negro Author" in Poetry in Performance 25, poetry festival annual, The City College of New York, p. 109. Poems in Chemins Croises, art book by Ksenia Milicevic (Paris: ArTmil): full-page illustrations in color of JAE 1s haiku, "The Bride," p. 6, and "The Blue Horse," p. 26, originally published in The Kenyon Review. POETRY READINGS: 19-22 Jan.: U.S. Embassy-sponsored tour of Germany (University Club in Bonn, accompanied by trombonist Joe Wulf in the jazz-haiku portion; Center for North America Research at Frankfurt University; Deutschland Radio in Cologne; German-American Center of the James F. Byrnes Institute in Stuttgart). 30 Jan.: Institut Charles V/University of Paris VII portion of the conference "The Harlem Rennaissance and Beyond." 10-21 Feb.: U.S. Embassy-sponsored tour (with saxophonist Chansse Evanns as musical accompanist during jazz-and-blues-and-gospel haiku presentations) in West and Central Africa: Accra, Ghana; Douala and Yaounde, Cameroon; and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 22 March: The Live Poets Society at Johnny's Irish Pub in Montmartre, Paris, with poets Gwen Strauss and John Kliphan. 5 May: Shakespeare & Company Bookstore, as part of the Festival francoanglais de poesie. 5 Dec.: bilingual reading sponsored by the literary review La Traductiere at the Sorbonne's Amphitheatre Edgar-Quinet, Paris, with 23 other poets, among them Michael Brannan (Australia), Claude Darbellay (Switzerland), Michael Lynch (USA), Garald Mangan (Scotland), Nimrod (Tchad), Derry O' Sullivan (Ireland), Georges Thines (Belgium), Jacques Rancourt (Quebec). BOOK (in galley proof stage): JAZZ from the Haiku King being typeset by Broadside Press of Detroit . PROSE IN BOOK: Short essay on "Ou va la poesie? " in La Traduc tie re, No. 16 (June), p. 34, as part of a symposium. A "revue de pofsie -- art visuel" in Paris. POEMS IN BOOKS: Frank: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing & Art, No. 16/17, contains "Dizzy Gillespie (News of His Death)," "Sonny Rolli n s ( Under the Williamsburg Bridge)," "Chet Baker," "Love and Sex, I," and "Dame Gravity, I" on pages 172-73- MCAD (National Computer Systems database), 1998-99 version, reprints "A Small Discovery." • • REFERENCEBOOKS WITH ENTRIES ON JAE: The International Order of Merit: Reister of Members (Cambridge, England: e rose ress t bas bio-bibliographical s etch, p. 25. International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 13th edition . ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE POEMS: 5-28 Feb.: Brussels (Maison des Artistes at Anderlecht), 54th Salon of JECTA. Included Godelieve Simons 1 5-engraving series ."Variations sur un rythme noir, 11 each large engraving illustrated by a JAE haiku with French versions by Jean Migrenne and G. Simons. March: Mouscron, Belgium, 13th Festival interns tional des Arts plastiques exhibited 3 engravings of the series "Variations sur un rythme noir." 20 June-19 July: Villers-la-Ville, Belgium, 102nd Grand salon d'ete, Maison des Arts du Goddiarch, Premiere Biennale de la Gravure. Included the 5-engraving series as shown in February with JAE haiku. 5-6 Sept.: Brussels, "Sentiers des arts" :weekend, atelier of Godelieve Simons. Included "Variations sur un rythme noir," now a 6-part series, as well as the large engraving bearing JAE's "Inside a smootb stone" haiku. MISCELLANEOUS: G. Simons I video documentary on JAE reached a, 5-hour length with interviews at City University (CONY) and Columbia; Univ. in New York, and in Denver, Colo.

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James Emanuel's 1998 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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