Christmas 1994 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 1994 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year ( James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this fourth list of Christmas-card padding: POETRY READINGS: 11 Jan., The Village Voice Bookshop, Paris: solo reading during 4-day tribute to Martin Luther King. Sold 8 of my 11 books taken there. 1 Feb., Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, Paris, with Ted Joans, Hart Leroy Bibbs, and Jake Lamar as an "Hommage a Langston Hughes." 5 Feb., Institut du Monda Anglophone, Paris: videotaped repetition of 1 Feb. event+ videotaped interview of me by Maria Diedrich, Univ. of Hannover, Germany (member of Collegium for African American Research). 5 Sep., Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, videotaped, with Michel Fabre, Ted Joans, Jake Lamar, Roy Williamson, as memorial for Bibbs, deceased 31 Aug. 22 Oct., Univ. of Rennes 2 to close "Cafe Litteraire" interviews of festival celebrating opening of Fondation William Faulkner France, 20-22 Oct. PAPER DELIVERED: "Private Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr.," Village Voice, 11 Jan. ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING MY WORKS: I Hear a, Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love, ed. Paula L. Woods & Felix H. Liddell New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.) "Negritude,” pp. 8-9. Introduction to Poetry, ed. Laurie Kirszner & Stephen Mandel (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.) “Emmett Till" The World of Music Grade 7, ed. Carmen E. Culp, Lawrence Eisman, & Mary E. Hoffman (Morristown, N.J.: Silver Burdett & Ginn.) "Get Up, Blues" INTERVIEW-ESSAYS ON ME IN BOOKS & MAGAZINES: "Sanctuary,” by Toni Y. Joseph, in posthumous One Voice (Dallas: Dallas- Fort Worth Assn of Black Communicators.) Reprints, pp. 143-48, Dallas Morning News (15 March 92) article. Page 152 describes effect of my reading ''Roller Skate Girl" at Feb. 92 conference at the Sorbonne. • • “A Moveable Feast," by Moe Seager, in Paris City Magazine, No. 16 (25 Jan.) pp. 16-17: section on me, with corrected dates in No. 17 (8 Feb.) MUSIC CASSETTE CONTAINING A SONG BY ME: Music of America (Hollywood Artists Record Co.) has my "No Place for a Lady," sung by Charles Clark. (I refused the company's request, dated 29 June, to record my "Everybody's Songbird.") POETRY READINGS (contd): 8 July, 21st International Congress on Arts and Communications, Edinburgh, Scotland, in "The Louise Martin Poetry Show" (with poets & amateurs). PANEL PARTICIPANT AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Panel "Les Chemins Afro-Americans," William Faulkner Festival, 21 Oct., Univ. of Rennes 2, concerning which my paper "Reflections on Faulkner Today: An African American View" will be published by the University. EXPOSITIONS & ART DISPLAYS CONTAINING ART ON MY POETRY: Edinburgh: 3-10 July, Congress [on Arts and Communicational Gallery of Art. Nicole Lamotte's illustration of "Roller Skate Girl"; Godelieve Simons' work on my haiku "Smooth stone"; Keith O. Anderson's on "Roller Skate Girl." Le Touquet-Paris Plage: 7-17 July, "5eme Carrefour International des Metiers d 'Art." G. Simons' engravings re "Negritude" & "Smooth stone" poems; her display of art in Blues in Black and White, our joint book. Brussels: 3 Nov.-10 Dec., "Six Femmes Graveurs Belges," Cite Fontainas. G. Simons' 15 works included "Negritude," "Smooth stone," Blues in B&W. Alliance, Nebraska: all of Feb., Carnegie Art Center. Poem "A Birthday . Rose for 'Mees'" with watercolor by FrancesCampbell. REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ESSAYS/ENTRIES ON ME: Not impmoerJAtEant to The First Five Hundred (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press.) Full-page photo, 160; essay, 161. Wall certificate too. Five Thousand Personalities of the World (Raleigh: American Biographical Institute.) No. 22 of "Limited, Signed and Numbered Collector's Edition." Wall plaque too. Dictionary of International Biography, 23rd ["Hall OF FAME"] Edition (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press.)

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James Emanuel's 1994 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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