Skip to main contentResource added ![Christmas 2006 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel) Dear Friend s , POETRY READINGS: I s ubmit this 16th list of Christmas-card padding : 20 Feb.: The Hi ghlander Pub, Paris, for The Live Poe ts Society, shared with Vivienne Vermes and H.D. Moe. (Cultural note: In 1970 or 1971, I read "Pa n t her Man"--showing my f ierce reaction to the killing by Chica go police of 2 Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark as they s l ept i n their motel beds before dawn. When I finished, the young Black men who by chance composed my audience at Bronx Community College in New York leaped to their feet in unison and roared their approval. My a udi en ce in Paris could not know that I had not read those harsh words pu blicly for 35 years, but its r eacti on was positive and almost as noisy.) 22 May: Espace Culturel de Universite d'Aogers. The "Music & Poetry Ensemble" presented 11 une toile de sons autour des poemes et blues de La ngston Hughes," some sounds being readings I bad made in Angers in 2005 . 23 June: International Poe try Festival at Na mur, Bel gi um, 21 - 24 Ju ne . Li ke oth er invited poets, I read severa l ti mes during an all-day cruise on the Meuse between Namur a nd Dinant, with Godelieve Simons reading French versions l ar ge l y by Je an Migrenne. 24 June: Same Fest i va l. As a s pecia l honored guest (the other be i ng--as represented by musicians and artists--the ex- president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Sengbor ), I was introd uc ed by a 20- minute essay by poe t Jac que s Dema ude . "Happy Birthday" sung by the audience and a cake witb light ed candles brought t o me onstage by a pretty girl preceded my readin g , which was highli ghted, I am told., by 11 '.vbe Middle Passage Blues." POEMSIN BOOKS: 7Profils de/7 Profiles of J ames Emanuel (Bruxelles: Grav' i Si m), 124 pp. by 21 contributors, contains 7 of my pr eferred poems among approx. 400 i n print: "Emmett Till," 11 11 Deadly James ( For AJ.l the Victims of Polic e Brutality)," "The Middle Passage Blues, 11 "Nuit de Pleine Lune," "Artist at My Window, 11 11 To Martin , to Luther, to King , 11 and "Mahalia Jac kson ." Lynchings in Mi ss issippi: A His tory, 1865-1965. Julius E. Thompson uses 3 poems in bis 253-p. book, 2 by Pa ul La urenc e Dunbar and my "Emmett Till," to c onc retize bis ghastly narrative. See p. 147. The Dance . :tveryrnan's Library Foc ket Poets series . Ed. Emily Fragos. New York, London, 'l'oronto: Knopf. "Bojangles and Jo, 11 p. 197. Poetry in Performance 4 (New York: The Print Center. 11A Cabinet of Few Affec t ions,' p. 1 of this pu blication of CCNY's Spring Poetry Festival. Godelieve Simons, a 36-p. bilingual 11 Plaquette de Presentation" (Bruxelles: Ed. Grav'i Sim). Introd. Serges Goyens de Heuscb (Docteur en Histoire de l'Art en Sorbonne and creator of the Fondation pour l'Art Belge Conternporain Serges Goyens de Heuscb. G. Simons as an art i st is tbesubject of the booklet and lived the incidents sbown in "Artist a t My Window (Holland Park Avenue, London), 11 re printed therein. POEMS IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: Groups of my poems: "I teacb literature at Schiller Int ernationa l University [in Paris]. and I include James' poetry as part of the regular curriculum," writes Prof. John Klipban (7 Profils as above, p. 86). "The Negro": used by Lipscomb Prof. Susan King in English 1123. "A Small Discovery": used in teacher's manual for the Patterns Prebraille Program (for blind and visually impaired children), Louisville ESSAY IN EDUCA TIONAL PROGRAMS: KY. "Blackness Can: A Quest for Aesthetics'': used by Prof. Daniel Muhlestein in English 495, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah. ART EXPO SHOWING MY POEMS: "Art-Event 2006, 11 24-26 Nov., at Antwerp Expo, Belgium's largest expo space, showed, among works by professional international artists, 2 engravings by G. Simons from her Nuit de Pleine Lune series of 6 works of art, accompanied by all 6 illustrative haiku by me. "THE JAMES EMANUEL POETRY PRIZE" It continaut Tehes City College of New York as my project to encourage young poets.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/9/a/7/9a7cdc0b-84ef-4637-97c5-7a2b64df6ff0/attachment/8e3439596118c25c5714ceb376b3b8c8.jpg)
![Christmas 2006 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel) Dear Friend s , POETRY READINGS: I s ubmit this 16th list of Christmas-card padding : 20 Feb.: The Hi ghlander Pub, Paris, for The Live Poe ts Society, shared with Vivienne Vermes and H.D. Moe. (Cultural note: In 1970 or 1971, I read "Pa n t her Man"--showing my f ierce reaction to the killing by Chica go police of 2 Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark as they s l ept i n their motel beds before dawn. When I finished, the young Black men who by chance composed my audience at Bronx Community College in New York leaped to their feet in unison and roared their approval. My a udi en ce in Paris could not know that I had not read those harsh words pu blicly for 35 years, but its r eacti on was positive and almost as noisy.) 22 May: Espace Culturel de Universite d'Aogers. The "Music & Poetry Ensemble" presented 11 une toile de sons autour des poemes et blues de La ngston Hughes," some sounds being readings I bad made in Angers in 2005 . 23 June: International Poe try Festival at Na mur, Bel gi um, 21 - 24 Ju ne . Li ke oth er invited poets, I read severa l ti mes during an all-day cruise on the Meuse between Namur a nd Dinant, with Godelieve Simons reading French versions l ar ge l y by Je an Migrenne. 24 June: Same Fest i va l. As a s pecia l honored guest (the other be i ng--as represented by musicians and artists--the ex- president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Sengbor ), I was introd uc ed by a 20- minute essay by poe t Jac que s Dema ude . "Happy Birthday" sung by the audience and a cake witb light ed candles brought t o me onstage by a pretty girl preceded my readin g , which was highli ghted, I am told., by 11 '.vbe Middle Passage Blues." POEMSIN BOOKS: 7Profils de/7 Profiles of J ames Emanuel (Bruxelles: Grav' i Si m), 124 pp. by 21 contributors, contains 7 of my pr eferred poems among approx. 400 i n print: "Emmett Till," 11 11 Deadly James ( For AJ.l the Victims of Polic e Brutality)," "The Middle Passage Blues, 11 "Nuit de Pleine Lune," "Artist at My Window, 11 11 To Martin , to Luther, to King , 11 and "Mahalia Jac kson ." Lynchings in Mi ss issippi: A His tory, 1865-1965. Julius E. Thompson uses 3 poems in bis 253-p. book, 2 by Pa ul La urenc e Dunbar and my "Emmett Till," to c onc retize bis ghastly narrative. See p. 147. The Dance . :tveryrnan's Library Foc ket Poets series . Ed. Emily Fragos. New York, London, 'l'oronto: Knopf. "Bojangles and Jo, 11 p. 197. Poetry in Performance 4 (New York: The Print Center. 11A Cabinet of Few Affec t ions,' p. 1 of this pu blication of CCNY's Spring Poetry Festival. Godelieve Simons, a 36-p. bilingual 11 Plaquette de Presentation" (Bruxelles: Ed. Grav'i Sim). Introd. Serges Goyens de Heuscb (Docteur en Histoire de l'Art en Sorbonne and creator of the Fondation pour l'Art Belge Conternporain Serges Goyens de Heuscb. G. Simons as an art i st is tbesubject of the booklet and lived the incidents sbown in "Artist a t My Window (Holland Park Avenue, London), 11 re printed therein. POEMS IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: Groups of my poems: "I teacb literature at Schiller Int ernationa l University [in Paris]. and I include James' poetry as part of the regular curriculum," writes Prof. John Klipban (7 Profils as above, p. 86). "The Negro": used by Lipscomb Prof. Susan King in English 1123. "A Small Discovery": used in teacher's manual for the Patterns Prebraille Program (for blind and visually impaired children), Louisville ESSAY IN EDUCA TIONAL PROGRAMS: KY. "Blackness Can: A Quest for Aesthetics'': used by Prof. Daniel Muhlestein in English 495, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah. ART EXPO SHOWING MY POEMS: "Art-Event 2006, 11 24-26 Nov., at Antwerp Expo, Belgium's largest expo space, showed, among works by professional international artists, 2 engravings by G. Simons from her Nuit de Pleine Lune series of 6 works of art, accompanied by all 6 illustrative haiku by me. "THE JAMES EMANUEL POETRY PRIZE" It continaut Tehes City College of New York as my project to encourage young poets.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/9/a/7/9a7cdc0b-84ef-4637-97c5-7a2b64df6ff0/attachment/medium-c35728e6576bf91d0becaba9ac5bed69.jpg)
Christmas 2006 Notes on Literary Happenings
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James Emanuel's 2006 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
- version2006