Skip to main contentResource added ![Christmas 2004 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel Dear Friends, I submit this 14th list of Christmas-card padding: POETRYREADINGS: 19 Jan.: The Live Poets Society, Paris, The Highlander Pub. Reading shared with Christopher Twigg and Ethan Gilsdorf. 30 Jan.: Librairie Anibwe Galerie & Salon, Paris. Reading accompanied by Chansse Evanns on saxophone and Marie-France Plassard reading French translations by Jean Migrenne. 15 Feb.: French Connection Press offices, Paris (celebration of publication of Van Gogh's Ear #3). Reading shared with poet Alice Notley and novelist Janet McDonald. 18 March: Ima c Improvisa tionaJ. Music Oen ter at t 'our and Taxi, Brussels (opened by this event). Reading with Noah Howard (saxophone /artistc director of IMAC/), Bobby .Few (piano), Calyer Duncan (drums), Harry Swift (bass), and Claire Maxwell (modern dance). 21 June: Percy's Place, Paris. Reading with Chansse Evanns on saxophone for special session of Syracuse University (New York) Paris Noir seminar of Professor Janis A. Mayes. A 23x30cm engraved plaque was presented to JAE expressing the "profond e gratitude" of the 11 Departement des Etudes Africaines AmEfricaines" for services to "ses etudiants et etudiantes." 21 July: Cit/ Universitaire, Faris (Maison des 1tudiants Armeniens). Reading, questions-and-answers session after Godelieve Simons's artand- photo display (JAE's illustrative haiku involved) and lecture in English on the history of engraving to these hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York and their Professor Janet Hulstrand. Video coverage by Mariel Isaacson, developing an educational film for high school students, was involved, connected with Hunter College's Summer 2004 Study Abroad Program. 8 Oct.: Le Sorrento [Restaurant], Bruxelles, Belgium. Reading, for the first time, of "Artist at My Window (Holland Park Avenue, London)," witb Godelieve Simons adding her French version, JAE closing with a cassette recording of "The Middle Passage Blues." (More haiku read.) 18 Dec.: La Nouvelle Sorbonne international conference "African America: and Diasporic Research in Europe .... in Honor of Michel and Genevieve Fabre." Brief reading to end conference. BOOK: ---WU-it de Pleine Lune, livre d'artiste made with Godelieve Simons. 7 handwritten haiku and the large engravings that inspired them. Bruxelles: Editions GRAV'iSM. POEMS IN BOOK: Cent voix pour MUMIA (Collectif Dionysien pour la Liberation de Mumia). "Writings presented to supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal at the Place de la Resistance, St. Denis, France, on 20 March." Includes my 11Le Blues d 'Abu Jamal," 11 The Middle Passage Blues," "'We Shall Overcome ... ," "C'que ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE' s POEMS & BOOKS: disent les vieux Negres." Le Sorrento (as above). Haiku about 5 G. Simons large photos on walls were read in English; the 6 in Rhythm in Black and White in French & Eng. 1-29 Oct. period of expo was extended. 12-28 Nov. span for JECTA below: 59th Salon JECTA, Bibliotheque communale de JETTE, Bruxelles. 4 engravings of G. Simons' s 6-part Nuu i t de pleine lune, each illus. by a JAE haiku. REFERENCE BOOKS TREATING JAE: 2000 Outstanding lntellectuals ... (Cambridge); International Who's Who in Poetry (London); The Writers Directory (St. SPECIAL EVENT: JAE' s rehearsal in London's Royal Academy of Music James). with 3 young classical musicians, English and Norwegian (the Laurie Blundell Trio, with Royal Albert Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall among their performance venues), creating background for his 11 01d Black Men Say." DISCUSSION OF JAE IN BOOK: Dudle. Randall and the Broadside Press, by Melba Joyce Boyd (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2003, seen too late for 2003 Lit. Hap. sheet. Has generous, important material on JAE.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/d/0/5/d0570766-1dbd-4532-b0ba-1d7396beb3a7/attachment/83165391f0bcbb2e63d734ffc646a1bb.jpg)
![Christmas 2004 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel Dear Friends, I submit this 14th list of Christmas-card padding: POETRYREADINGS: 19 Jan.: The Live Poets Society, Paris, The Highlander Pub. Reading shared with Christopher Twigg and Ethan Gilsdorf. 30 Jan.: Librairie Anibwe Galerie & Salon, Paris. Reading accompanied by Chansse Evanns on saxophone and Marie-France Plassard reading French translations by Jean Migrenne. 15 Feb.: French Connection Press offices, Paris (celebration of publication of Van Gogh's Ear #3). Reading shared with poet Alice Notley and novelist Janet McDonald. 18 March: Ima c Improvisa tionaJ. Music Oen ter at t 'our and Taxi, Brussels (opened by this event). Reading with Noah Howard (saxophone /artistc director of IMAC/), Bobby .Few (piano), Calyer Duncan (drums), Harry Swift (bass), and Claire Maxwell (modern dance). 21 June: Percy's Place, Paris. Reading with Chansse Evanns on saxophone for special session of Syracuse University (New York) Paris Noir seminar of Professor Janis A. Mayes. A 23x30cm engraved plaque was presented to JAE expressing the "profond e gratitude" of the 11 Departement des Etudes Africaines AmEfricaines" for services to "ses etudiants et etudiantes." 21 July: Cit/ Universitaire, Faris (Maison des 1tudiants Armeniens). Reading, questions-and-answers session after Godelieve Simons's artand- photo display (JAE's illustrative haiku involved) and lecture in English on the history of engraving to these hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York and their Professor Janet Hulstrand. Video coverage by Mariel Isaacson, developing an educational film for high school students, was involved, connected with Hunter College's Summer 2004 Study Abroad Program. 8 Oct.: Le Sorrento [Restaurant], Bruxelles, Belgium. Reading, for the first time, of "Artist at My Window (Holland Park Avenue, London)," witb Godelieve Simons adding her French version, JAE closing with a cassette recording of "The Middle Passage Blues." (More haiku read.) 18 Dec.: La Nouvelle Sorbonne international conference "African America: and Diasporic Research in Europe .... in Honor of Michel and Genevieve Fabre." Brief reading to end conference. BOOK: ---WU-it de Pleine Lune, livre d'artiste made with Godelieve Simons. 7 handwritten haiku and the large engravings that inspired them. Bruxelles: Editions GRAV'iSM. POEMS IN BOOK: Cent voix pour MUMIA (Collectif Dionysien pour la Liberation de Mumia). "Writings presented to supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal at the Place de la Resistance, St. Denis, France, on 20 March." Includes my 11Le Blues d 'Abu Jamal," 11 The Middle Passage Blues," "'We Shall Overcome ... ," "C'que ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE' s POEMS & BOOKS: disent les vieux Negres." Le Sorrento (as above). Haiku about 5 G. Simons large photos on walls were read in English; the 6 in Rhythm in Black and White in French & Eng. 1-29 Oct. period of expo was extended. 12-28 Nov. span for JECTA below: 59th Salon JECTA, Bibliotheque communale de JETTE, Bruxelles. 4 engravings of G. Simons' s 6-part Nuu i t de pleine lune, each illus. by a JAE haiku. REFERENCE BOOKS TREATING JAE: 2000 Outstanding lntellectuals ... (Cambridge); International Who's Who in Poetry (London); The Writers Directory (St. SPECIAL EVENT: JAE' s rehearsal in London's Royal Academy of Music James). with 3 young classical musicians, English and Norwegian (the Laurie Blundell Trio, with Royal Albert Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall among their performance venues), creating background for his 11 01d Black Men Say." DISCUSSION OF JAE IN BOOK: Dudle. Randall and the Broadside Press, by Melba Joyce Boyd (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2003, seen too late for 2003 Lit. Hap. sheet. Has generous, important material on JAE.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/d/0/5/d0570766-1dbd-4532-b0ba-1d7396beb3a7/attachment/medium-f3d6882923fa32b95fb8e770dbc70f73.jpg)
Christmas 2004 Notes on Literary Happenings
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James Emanuel's 2004 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 Estate
- version2004