Christmas 2003 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 2003 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel) Dear friends, I submit this 13th list of Christmas-card padding: Entries for year 2002: Reference book treating JAE, 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century 1st Edition (Cambridge England: Melrose /commerical/ Press •. 29 October: Godel ieve Simons' s video documentary on JAE nears completion 1n Normandy with interviewees Nicole Lamotte (artist) and the Migrennes (Micheleand Jean). POETRY READINGS: 2003 only 13 March: Metropolitan Altitud, Espace Culturel d'Art et de Rencontre, Paris. with Chansse Evanns on tenor saxophooe. 8 April: Periplans, Rencontre des Cinemas d'Afrique, Villeneuve d'Ascq. Conference on racism in the Mumia Abu-Jamal case. Read several of JAE poems on Mumia. Other participants: Julia Wright (daughter of Richard Wright), French professors, and an official from Amnesty lnternational Paris. 11 June: Shakespeare & Company Bookstore's grande tent a. dans le parc, Paris. Memorial tribute to Ted Joans. JAE reminiscences and poems on 1ed, with Jake Lamar, Michel Fabre, Jim Haynes, et al. 24 Oc t.: Deu tsch-merikanisches l nsti t dt, heidel berg, Germa ny. World Poetry Festival's special "Haiku-Nacht." Did read JAE haiku. (Idid.) POEMS. IN BOOKS: Van Gogb 1 s Ear, ed. lan Ayres of Saint-ande France. "Deadly James (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)." Regards Croises sur )es Afro-Americans, Hommage a Michel Fabre Tours: Presses de 1 'Univorsite-de Tours). Tribute to Michel plus four-part "For Michel Fabre: Four Haiku." pp. 107-108. POEMON CANADIAN CD: JAE poem "Negritude (presented as "Black is" /"Black is" or "Black" begins each of the 24 lines written in 1959/as sung" by Jalal Sunstrum on CD Slowrise with the Dawn Chorus, programmed by Reno Sensal). *vo- POEMS 01, INTERNET: several read by JAi as part of interview calized mentioned below. VISIT TO JAE BY AMERICAN STUDENTS: 23 June: (becoming an annual event, possibly) Syracuse /New York/ Univ . students in the seminar 11Paris Noir: Literature, Culture and Contemporary Life," led by Prof. Janis Mayes, fill JAE's living room for a poetry reading, JAE-related art display, and exchange of ideas. INTERVIEW ON INTERNET: From Internet's LIVEJOURNAL: " ••• the second insta1lment of Dan Schneider and Art Durkee's Omniversice " radio show ...• features expatriate poet James Emanuel ( wi tb his translattor /J ean Migrenne/ and documentarian /Godelieve Simons/ in a phone interview from Paris, France. /He/ speaks out about his career, poetry. ... race, poverty, the arts, & more." VlDEO DOCUMENTARY ON JAE: G. SImons' videotaped interviews in Paris, early July, of Jake Lamar, Jean Migrenne, John Miphan, and Robert lricoire end her series. "THE JAMES EMANUEL POETRY PRIZE" continues in The City College of New York as a JAE project to encourage young poets. JAE AS GUEST Or HONOR(Li terary) . at the November Langston Hughes Poetry Festival, CCNY, where the Festival director, lro1. Victoria Chevalier, is/was to read my essay, "Notes from an Ancestor," in my necessary absence. ART EXHIBIT WI TH SALE OF JAE POEM: 1· • . 6-28 May: Solo expo of G. Simons's engravings in offices of Secrataire d'Etat de la Region Bruxelles Capitale (Robert de la Thouwer), with sale (by multiple votes judging months of expos) of engraving bearing JAE haiku "Smooth stone"for the official national collection. Large sheets of haiku handwritten by JAE were exhibited. ' I |

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James Emanuel's 2003 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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