Christmas 2005 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 2005 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel) Dear Friends, I submit this 15th list of Christmas-card padding: POETRY READINGS: 8 March: Bibl ioth'eque Anglopbone, Angers, France, . program "Beat, Black, and Blue," Englisb Language Library. Otber participants: Taran Singh ' (leads jazz band with poems by Langston Hughes), Simon Mary (contrabass), Franck Tbomelet (drums), and Pierrick Menuau (saxopbone). 19 and 20 March: week-end "Arts et Engagement," Anibwe Librairie Galerie, Paris. Afro-Caribbean artists and writers "autour de James EMANUEL ( Poete) et Cbansse EVANNS (Saxophoniste). 11 18 April: The Highlander Pub, Paris. Reading with otber poets Micbelle Noteboom and Sean Street. The Live Poets Society • .2 3 June: Festiv al franco-angla is de poesie, Paris. 11 Bilingua 1 Public Readings" at tbe cafe-restaurant Aux Trois Canettes, with Marie-France Plassard reading Frencb versions by Jean Migrenne of originals by JAE. Other poets: Luce Guilbaud, Jose Luis Reina Palazon, Dilys Rose, and Louise Warren. 4 July: Cafe Flore, Paris. Syracuse University (New York) Paris Noir seminar students witb tbeir Prof. Janis A. Mayes. Poetry reading and discussion. 20 July: Universite Paris III (Nouvelle Sorbonne). Study-abroad students witb tbeir Prof. Janet Hulstrand of Hunter College, New York. Godelieve Simons' display of, and commentary on, some of her engravings and otber art related to poems by JAE, followed by a poetry reading and discussion. POEMS IN BOOKS: (and see entry below) "Emmett Till" in Literature: Readin Reactin (Heinle Publisbers now a sworth, _ ec. 200 POEMS IN JOURNALS: Writin , 6th Edition , a college textbook. "Quick Haiku for Leo Hamalian, 11 five baiku preceded and followed by several lines of prose in ararat, Vol. XLV, No. 179 (Summer 2004), special issue Tribute to Leo Hamalian, A137. INTERVIEW OF JAE IN MAGAZINE: CiteBlack Paris (News Magazine)., No. 47, 28 fevrier 2005, page 16, witb pboto. Interview in French by Alain Diasse. POEMS IN BOOKS (contd) "Saxophone on Rue du Bae: Steve Lacy" and "Ray Cbarles, 11 p. 179 of Poetry in Performance 32 (The Print Center, Inc., New Yo.rk City, 2004 [not seen till 2005]. ART EXPOS SHOWING JAE'S WORKS: 17 Jan.-27 May: Pleon, Brussels. Engravings by Godelieve Simons, part of the Rhythm in Black and White series, tbe whole of La Nuit de la Pleine Lune, both with related or integral baiku by JAE; photos by G. Simons with illustrative haiku. 29 Oct.-13 Nov.: 60th Salon JECTA, Brussels. Cover and interior of CD Middle Passage as designed by G. Simons witb artwork and photos involving saxophonist Noab Howard, JAE reading, etc.; as well as tbe book Blues in Black and Whi te, made by JAE and G. Simons as art-with-poems. REFERENCE BOOK ESSAY ON JAE: International Wbo's Wbo in Poetry (London: 11 . Europa Publications). THE JAMES EMANUEL POETRY PRIZE" continues at Tbe City College of New York as a· JAE project to encourage young poets. Lack-of-space holdover from 2004; My "Sonnet for a Writer" as a CD "single" programmed by Renaud Sensal of Quebec City, Canada, an independent musician one of wbose recent works was the OD Slowrise, with the Dawn Chorus.

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James Emanuel's 2005 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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