Christmas 2000 Notes on Literary Happenings (Page 1)

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Christmas 2000 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this tenth list of Christmas-card padding: Entry known too late for prior list: Poem "The Voyage of Jimmy Poo" illustrated in Ashley Brian's ABC of African American Poetry (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997). Unpaged Atheneum Book. POETRY READINGS: 19 Jan.: Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III. Poetry reading and discussion shared with novelist Jake Lamar. . 16 April: The Live Poets Society, Paris, at the "Scarbo" pub. Reading shared with John Kliphan and Glenn Shea. (Sold all books taken there.) 18 May: Le Merle Moqueur bookstore venue of the Festival franco-anglais de poesie. Poetry reading supported by Chansse Evanns, saxophonist. Others reading: Francoise Han, Patricia Nolan, and Micbel Helayel. Paris. 25 July: Cite Universitaire, Paris, reading and discussion (3 1/2hours) before study-abroad group from Hunter College of New York. (Sold 26 of 29 books taken there.) 28 Oct.: La Nouvelle Sorbonne international conference "African Diasporas in the Old and the New Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination," reading accompanied by saxophonist Chansse Evanns. Participation also in writers' roundtable with Melba Joyce Boyd, Afaa M. Weaver, et al. 23 Nov.: Herouville-Saint-Clair in Normandy, at the Cafe des Images, the French version of my "The Ballad of Abu-Jamal" was read by its translator, Jean Migrenne, at a large rally for that death-row prisoner. 4-8 Dec.: U.S. Embassy (Berlin-sponsored tour, based almost entirely on poems in JAZZ from the Haiku King: readings accompanied by musicians in Stuttgart (vibraphonist Benjamin "Fops" Wilson and contrabassist Arnold L. Wilson), Munich (saxophonist Klaus Kreuzeder), Leipzig (jazz guitarist Christian Rover), and Berlin (saxophonist Dirk Raulf), the last-named performance videotaped. POEMS IN BOOKS: Formes et Ecritures du Depart: Incursions dans les Amerigues Noires, ed. Andree-Anne KEKEH-DIKA et Helene le DANTEC-LOWRY (Paris: L'Harmattan). English versions of "Andrew's Cyclones," 23-24; "Bojangles and Jo," 85; "Jazzanatomy," 85; "Jazz on the Move (A Haiku Sequence)," 86; "Migratory Jazz," 86; and "The Middle Passage Blues," 147-48. POEMS IN JOURNALS: Black Renaissance Noire, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Winter 1999-2000). "Earl 'Fatha" Hines," "Jelly Roll Morton," "Erroll Garner," "Mahalia Jackson," and "Saxophone on Rue du Bae: Steve Lacy," 140-43. Autre Sud No. 8 (mars), Marseille. As guest poet in the "Voix d'ailleurs" section, I received space devoted to a biographical half-page and fifteen poems (French versions by Jean Migrenne), 90-103, titles appearing below after ART EXHIBITS if space remains. ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE'S POEMS: Fondation pour l'Art Belge Contemporain, expo "Florilegium 2," Cite Fontainas, Brussels, 11 Feb. -25 March. Godelieve Simons' engraving Rhythm in Black and White V, with illustrative haiku by me. (Hereinafter RBW V.) Volvo Cars Gent, expo "Volvo Pro Arte 54," Gent, Belgium, 20 Feb.-15 March. RBW series of 6 engravings, averaging 40cm. x 65cm. Marche Mondiale des Femmes, salle d'expo Ten Weyngaiert, "Le Parcours de Femmes," Brussels, 3-12 March. RBW III, IV, and V with my haiku. Theatre Fierre Fresnay, lOe Biennale Internationale de Gravure en Val d'Oise, expo "Linea 2000," Ermont, France, 2-16 April. One RBW engraving and photographic display of JAZZ from the Haiku King. – Accademia d'Arte di Pisa and Associazione Culturale of International Mail Art Archive, solo expo of Godelieve Simons at Saletta Kinzica, Pisa Italy, 29 April - 11 May . Engraving with "Smooth stone" haiku; RBW I-Iv; and JAZZ from the Haiku King with engraving made for it b G-Sim Arte-Fac, Universite catholique de Louvain en Woluwe, Brussels. Simons. RBW series, Blues in Black and White (poems-and-art book b G and me, 1992), Deadly James engraving, and JAZZ from the HaikuKing with its special engraving--all art by G. Simons in a one-woman show. au

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James Emanuel's 2000 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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