Christmas 1996 Notes on Literary Happenings

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Christmas 1996 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this sixth list of Christmas-card padding: Entries learned too late for the 1995 list: Poem "The Blacklist: Dialogue in a Harlem Bar" in Ishmael Reed's Koncb, No. 8 (Fall 1995), p. 13. Poems "A Poet Does Not Choose to Run" and "A Negro Author" in Mires ( de Communication Interculturelle), Universite de Poitiers, numero 8, 1993-94, pp. 69-70. (Final issue of magazine.) Poem "Flowers for a Real-Gone Girl" in Poetry in Performance 23, poetry festival annual (The City College of New York), 5 May 1995, pp. 124--25. POETRY READINGS: 9 Jan.: L'Arganier Jazz Club, Paris, accompanied by saxophonist Chansse Evanns. 29 March: Village Voice Bookshop's "Soiree Litteraire de Soutien a Mumia Abu-Jamal," with Ernest Gaines, Julia Wright, , actor Thomas Pollard et al. Read my booklet Reaching for Mumia: 16 Haiku & "The Ballad of Abu-Jamal." • 9 April: Universite de Rennes 2’s "Printemps Faulkner" celebration, with Ernest Gaines and Richard Ford. Gave 40-min. reading with saxophonist CE. 24 April: La Sorbonne, Grand Amphitheatre, opening session of "April in Paris" conference on African American Music and Europe. ' 26 April: Salle Liard, La Sorbonne, with Sybil Kein and Philippe Frechet. 27 April: Hotel Sofitel, closing session of "April in Paris," with John A. Williams, Melba Joyce Boyd, and Playthel Benjamin. 19 May: "Celebration l'Anniversaire Malcolm X," rue de Picardie, Paris. My "For Malcolm X, U .S .A." was read on my behalf · by Wilhelmina; Montgomery. 22 Sept: Tigh Johnny's Irish Pub, Paris, with Bill Strangmeyer & Vivienne Vermes 19 Oct.: Festival de Lille, "Black America" session, with Chansse Evans, Jake Lamar, Julia Wright, Mark Reid, Eric Fassin, Noah Howard (saxophonist) 6 Nov.: "Les Continents de la Parole" festival, Toulouse. Long videotaped reading at Universite de Toulouse-le Mirail with Dr. Jean-Jacques Vincent as saxophonist, French versions read by Yves Le Pellec & Anthony Suter. 9 Nov.: Forum des Cordeliers, Toulouse, with Tuareg, Sardinian, Italian, French, and other poets, singers , and dancers (all videotaped by Godelieve Simons of Brussels). • 10 Nov.: La Grotte de Lombrives, Ussat-les-Bains (reputedly the largest cave in the world); read "prehistoric" jazz haiku & "The Ballad of Abu-Jamal." 14 Nov.: La Sorbonne, Centre Malher with several of the 19 Oct. Iille group. POEMS IN BOOKS: The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Sixth Edn, has "Emmett Till," p. 421. Kennedy/ King: An American Dream, 39-page catalog of photo exhibition at Festival de Lille. "To Martin, to Luther to King" (bilingual), p. 37. 50 Artistes de Belgique, ed. Anita Nardon (Bruxelles: Editions Ecbancrure). Has Godelieve' s 3-panel engraving bearing my haiku "Smooth stone," p.163, +1st of 5-panel with my illus. haiku,p.165. Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers, ed. Fredric Lown & Judith W. Steinbergh (Portland, ME: J. Weston Walch). "The Young Ones, Flip Side," p.44. EXHIBITIONS WITH JAE-RELATED WORKS: Feb.: The Miami Herald lobby (Florida), photo-and-poem show "May These Images Reflect and Respect . . . ," Max Waldman Archives. "Negritude" poem. 11-27, 0ct.: Abbaye Dieleghem in Jette, Belgium, 53d salon of JECTA group. · My "Smooth stone" & "Negritude" as parts of Godelieve Simons' engravings 9-29 Nov.: Galerie Echancrure, Brussels. Godelieve' s engravings that in clude texts of "Smooth stone" and "Rhythm in Black and White I" in window display. REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ESSAYS/ENTRIES ON ME: Not importa(nt tho meJeAE re..._ International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 12th Edition (Cambridge, Eng-- land: Melrose Press Ltd). AWARD GIVEN ME: Sidney Bechet Creative Award, from the City of New Orleans, presented at the opening session, 24 April, at the Sorbonne's Grand Amphitheatre of the "April in Paris" conference, African American Music and Europe. INFORMATION RECEIVED LATE (DECEMBER): Poem "Get Up, Blues" in The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2, ed. Sascha Feinstein & Yusef Komunya kaa Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press p. 51, with "statement of poetics," pp. 207-208.

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James Emanuel's 1996 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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