Skip to main contentResource added ![Christmas 2001 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this 11th list of Christmas-card padding: Entry known too late for prior list: Poem "Emmett Till" in The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998), pp.867-68, with editorial footnote and comment. POETRY READINGS: 17 Jan.: American Library in Paris. Jazz haiku reading witb saxopbonist Cbansse Evanns, as part of annual "Hommage Jazz" to Martin Luther King. 22 March: Universite de Toulouse-le Mirail, international colloquium "La Musique et les Litteratures Anglophones." Poetry reading with tenor saxophonist Yves Passarieu. 7 June: The Village Voice Bookshop, Paris. Book-signing reading and discussion to launcb Tbe Force and tbe Reckoning. 11 June: my apartment on Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris, with 15 people crowded into one small room. Poetry reading, discussion, and display by Godelieve Simons of her engravings involving my poetry before Syracuse [New York] University students and their professor Janis A. Mayes. Partial video coverage by G. Simons. , 18 July: Cite Universitaire, Paris (Maison des Etudiants Armeniens). Poetry reading, discussion, with art display and partial video coverage by G. Simons as on 11 June, involving Hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York with Prof. Janet Hulstrand. 16 Nov.: The CEAA (Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Americaines) international conference on the writing of African-American bistory after tbe Civil Rights Movement, Tours, France, 16-18 November. Poetry reading following highlights of my published & autobiography. 23 Nov.: Circolo Gianni Bosio (Associazione Culturale), Rome, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading, with Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by saxophonist Paolo Innarella and cornettist Micbael Thieke. 26 Nov.: Al "Libera/ Mente," Via Dei Sabelli, 2, Rome. Haiku evening of readings by Italians and Japanese, ".con la partecipazione estraordinaria del performer J. Emanuel" (as stated by publicity). 27 Nov.: ARCI (Nuova Associazione), The Irish Public, Terni, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading and "The Middle Passage Blues," witb Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by cornettist Micbael Tbieke and guitarist (and harmonica player) Jesse Cahn. BOOKS: The Force and the Reckoning (autobiograpby, poetry, handwritten poem drafts, 57 photos, travel notes, bibliography) (Detroit: Lotus, Feb.). CD ( COMPACT DISC) : Middle Passage, text (42 poems) and voice, JAE; music (alto & tenor sax), Noab Howard; recorded at Al tsax Studios, May 2001, Tervuren, Belgium; artwork & photos by Godelieve Simons; sales contact, JAE, Paris. POEMS IN BOOKS: Visions & Revisions, by Barry Wallenstein and Robert Burr (New York: Broadview Preso, 2002). Biographical sketch, final versions and drafts of "Tina, Turner" and-" Bill Clinton," pp. 258-62. Poetry in Performance 29, Annual Spring Poetry Festival of CCNY (New York: The Print Center, Inc.) "Love and Sex, I" and “Love and Sex, II," P• 122. ARTWORK: Godelieve Simons's large engraving-on-wood (1 1/2x 2 meters) done with 3 Tunisian girls and JAE (names engraved as "Dhoha Ihmen Fatma, and James"), JAE's tool a hollow gouge, at the International ' Festival on the Plastic Arts in Mahares, Tunisia, 23 July-3 August. ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE'S POEMS & BOOKS: UFACSI (Union Feminine Artistique et Culturelle Salons lnternationaux) Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud / Salles Pierre Coulon et Constantin' Weyer, Vichy, France, 7-30 Sept. G. Simons's Rhythm in B&W I-III. Mahares, Tunisia, festival as above. 3 xylographs from G. Simons's cycle Les Nuits de Pleine Lune. 57e Salon de JECTA, Demeure Abbatiale de Dieleghem, Jette, Belgium, 10 – 25 Nov. RB&W I-VI; GS’s cover art for JAE’s JAZZ…, The Force and Middle Passage.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/0/4/9/049dad3e-51fa-4bae-ba63-526847bb0ee8/attachment/f0447894259f50ea14e971826e7a37ce.jpg)
![Christmas 2001 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this 11th list of Christmas-card padding: Entry known too late for prior list: Poem "Emmett Till" in The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998), pp.867-68, with editorial footnote and comment. POETRY READINGS: 17 Jan.: American Library in Paris. Jazz haiku reading witb saxopbonist Cbansse Evanns, as part of annual "Hommage Jazz" to Martin Luther King. 22 March: Universite de Toulouse-le Mirail, international colloquium "La Musique et les Litteratures Anglophones." Poetry reading with tenor saxophonist Yves Passarieu. 7 June: The Village Voice Bookshop, Paris. Book-signing reading and discussion to launcb Tbe Force and tbe Reckoning. 11 June: my apartment on Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris, with 15 people crowded into one small room. Poetry reading, discussion, and display by Godelieve Simons of her engravings involving my poetry before Syracuse [New York] University students and their professor Janis A. Mayes. Partial video coverage by G. Simons. , 18 July: Cite Universitaire, Paris (Maison des Etudiants Armeniens). Poetry reading, discussion, with art display and partial video coverage by G. Simons as on 11 June, involving Hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York with Prof. Janet Hulstrand. 16 Nov.: The CEAA (Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Americaines) international conference on the writing of African-American bistory after tbe Civil Rights Movement, Tours, France, 16-18 November. Poetry reading following highlights of my published & autobiography. 23 Nov.: Circolo Gianni Bosio (Associazione Culturale), Rome, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading, with Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by saxophonist Paolo Innarella and cornettist Micbael Thieke. 26 Nov.: Al "Libera/ Mente," Via Dei Sabelli, 2, Rome. Haiku evening of readings by Italians and Japanese, ".con la partecipazione estraordinaria del performer J. Emanuel" (as stated by publicity). 27 Nov.: ARCI (Nuova Associazione), The Irish Public, Terni, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading and "The Middle Passage Blues," witb Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by cornettist Micbael Tbieke and guitarist (and harmonica player) Jesse Cahn. BOOKS: The Force and the Reckoning (autobiograpby, poetry, handwritten poem drafts, 57 photos, travel notes, bibliography) (Detroit: Lotus, Feb.). CD ( COMPACT DISC) : Middle Passage, text (42 poems) and voice, JAE; music (alto & tenor sax), Noab Howard; recorded at Al tsax Studios, May 2001, Tervuren, Belgium; artwork & photos by Godelieve Simons; sales contact, JAE, Paris. POEMS IN BOOKS: Visions & Revisions, by Barry Wallenstein and Robert Burr (New York: Broadview Preso, 2002). Biographical sketch, final versions and drafts of "Tina, Turner" and-" Bill Clinton," pp. 258-62. Poetry in Performance 29, Annual Spring Poetry Festival of CCNY (New York: The Print Center, Inc.) "Love and Sex, I" and “Love and Sex, II," P• 122. ARTWORK: Godelieve Simons's large engraving-on-wood (1 1/2x 2 meters) done with 3 Tunisian girls and JAE (names engraved as "Dhoha Ihmen Fatma, and James"), JAE's tool a hollow gouge, at the International ' Festival on the Plastic Arts in Mahares, Tunisia, 23 July-3 August. ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE'S POEMS & BOOKS: UFACSI (Union Feminine Artistique et Culturelle Salons lnternationaux) Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud / Salles Pierre Coulon et Constantin' Weyer, Vichy, France, 7-30 Sept. G. Simons's Rhythm in B&W I-III. Mahares, Tunisia, festival as above. 3 xylographs from G. Simons's cycle Les Nuits de Pleine Lune. 57e Salon de JECTA, Demeure Abbatiale de Dieleghem, Jette, Belgium, 10 – 25 Nov. RB&W I-VI; GS’s cover art for JAE’s JAZZ…, The Force and Middle Passage.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/0/4/9/049dad3e-51fa-4bae-ba63-526847bb0ee8/attachment/medium-605ae763f4df2f3d4992c0cb99f6ae1b.jpg)
Christmas 2001 Notes on Literary Happenings
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James Emanuel's 2001 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
- version2001