![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)
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Uploaded ![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.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/7/5/7/757d9fae-5620-4d99-9290-b3e0d141ae0a/attachment/d856b26802ed4033f3f2aca3f3a880ec.jpg)
Christmas 2005 Notes on Literary Happenings
![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
![Christmas 2001 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this 11th list of Christmas-card padding: Entry known too late for prior list: Poem "Emmett Till" in The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998), pp.867-68, with editorial footnote and comment. POETRY READINGS: 17 Jan.: American Library in Paris. Jazz haiku reading witb saxopbonist Cbansse Evanns, as part of annual "Hommage Jazz" to Martin Luther King. 22 March: Universite de Toulouse-le Mirail, international colloquium "La Musique et les Litteratures Anglophones." Poetry reading with tenor saxophonist Yves Passarieu. 7 June: The Village Voice Bookshop, Paris. Book-signing reading and discussion to launcb Tbe Force and tbe Reckoning. 11 June: my apartment on Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris, with 15 people crowded into one small room. Poetry reading, discussion, and display by Godelieve Simons of her engravings involving my poetry before Syracuse [New York] University students and their professor Janis A. Mayes. Partial video coverage by G. Simons. , 18 July: Cite Universitaire, Paris (Maison des Etudiants Armeniens). Poetry reading, discussion, with art display and partial video coverage by G. Simons as on 11 June, involving Hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York with Prof. Janet Hulstrand. 16 Nov.: The CEAA (Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Americaines) international conference on the writing of African-American bistory after tbe Civil Rights Movement, Tours, France, 16-18 November. Poetry reading following highlights of my published & autobiography. 23 Nov.: Circolo Gianni Bosio (Associazione Culturale), Rome, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading, with Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by saxophonist Paolo Innarella and cornettist Micbael Thieke. 26 Nov.: Al "Libera/ Mente," Via Dei Sabelli, 2, Rome. Haiku evening of readings by Italians and Japanese, ".con la partecipazione estraordinaria del performer J. Emanuel" (as stated by publicity). 27 Nov.: ARCI (Nuova Associazione), The Irish Public, Terni, Italy. Jazz-haiku reading and "The Middle Passage Blues," witb Italian versions by Riccardo Duranti, and witb accompaniment by cornettist Micbael Tbieke and guitarist (and harmonica player) Jesse Cahn. BOOKS: The Force and the Reckoning (autobiograpby, poetry, handwritten poem drafts, 57 photos, travel notes, bibliography) (Detroit: Lotus, Feb.). CD ( COMPACT DISC) : Middle Passage, text (42 poems) and voice, JAE; music (alto & tenor sax), Noab Howard; recorded at Al tsax Studios, May 2001, Tervuren, Belgium; artwork & photos by Godelieve Simons; sales contact, JAE, Paris. POEMS IN BOOKS: Visions & Revisions, by Barry Wallenstein and Robert Burr (New York: Broadview Preso, 2002). Biographical sketch, final versions and drafts of "Tina, Turner" and-" Bill Clinton," pp. 258-62. Poetry in Performance 29, Annual Spring Poetry Festival of CCNY (New York: The Print Center, Inc.) "Love and Sex, I" and “Love and Sex, II," P• 122. ARTWORK: Godelieve Simons's large engraving-on-wood (1 1/2x 2 meters) done with 3 Tunisian girls and JAE (names engraved as "Dhoha Ihmen Fatma, and James"), JAE's tool a hollow gouge, at the International ' Festival on the Plastic Arts in Mahares, Tunisia, 23 July-3 August. ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE'S POEMS & BOOKS: UFACSI (Union Feminine Artistique et Culturelle Salons lnternationaux) Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud / Salles Pierre Coulon et Constantin' Weyer, Vichy, France, 7-30 Sept. G. Simons's Rhythm in B&W I-III. Mahares, Tunisia, festival as above. 3 xylographs from G. Simons's cycle Les Nuits de Pleine Lune. 57e Salon de JECTA, Demeure Abbatiale de Dieleghem, Jette, Belgium, 10 – 25 Nov. RB&W I-VI; GS’s cover art for JAE’s JAZZ…, The Force and Middle Passage.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/0/4/9/049dad3e-51fa-4bae-ba63-526847bb0ee8/attachment/f0447894259f50ea14e971826e7a37ce.jpg)
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![Christmas 1995 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this fifth list of Christmas-card padding: Publications inadvertently omitted from 1994 list: Poem "Dirty Old Man" in Poetry in Performance 22, poetry festival annual (The City College of New York), p. 124. Exhibition "44e Salon '94," 15-30 Oct. at Koekelberg, Belgium, presented by Le Cercle d'Art Eugene Simonis at the Maison Stepman Ruis. Included Godelieve Simons's engravings based on my poem "Negritude" and on my haiku "Inside a smooth stone." POETRY READINGS: 8 Feb., the American Library in Paris, part of the "Evening with an Author,, 15-19 Feb., "Transatlantic Passages" international conference series. of the Collegium for African American Research at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. (Conference organizers bad me close the proceedings with my reading my poem composed for the conference , "The Middle Passage Blues." 23 April, Tigh Johnny's Irish Pub in Montmartre ( where I sang one of my 7 songs from Whole Grain for the first time, "The Ballad of Safe Sex"). 18 Oct., the American Library in Paris , as part of its week-long celebrations of its 75th anniversary (other authors reading: Tana and Russell Hoban, John Baxter, Jerome Charyn, Diane Johnson, and Julian More). 8 Nov., same Library, again in "Evening with an Author" series, my firsttime- anywhere presentation of a program of "jazz haiku" (my creation), accompanied by Chansse Evanns on tbe saxophone. 21 Nov., l'Association Rencontres & Ateliers (its "Authors' Lecture Evening" series), in the Salle Cinema of the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. Autobiographical narrative too. 26 Nov., Galerie J. et J. Donguy, Paris, as part of the presentation "L'Art Cantre la Peine de Mort" to raise funds for the defense of Mumia Abu Jamal. I read my booklet of haiku "dedie's 'a Mumia," accompanied by Chansse Evanns on the saxophone. (Other participants: soprano Jo Ann Pickens and playwright Andre Benedetto . ) PUBL]CATIONS (BOOKS AND POEMS IN JOURNALS): (1st item is book by me.) Reaching for Mumia: 16 Haiku (Paris: L'insomniaque editeur). On cover: "Poems written to raise funds for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." African American Review, XXIX, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 92. First "jazz haiku" ever printed: “The Haiku King," "Bojangles and Jo," and "Jazzanatomy." The Chariton Review, XXI, No . 1 (Spring 1995), 71. Rivals AAR next-above by printing "Jazz on the Move (a Haiku Sequence)." . Fathers and Children in Literature and Art, ed. Charles Sullivan (NewYork: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.). My "The Treehouse,'.' page 110, paired on page 111 with Paul Klee's The Tree of Houses as an illustration. GAAR [Collegium for African American Research] Newsletter No. 5 (Summer/ Fall 1995). Cover page taken up by my "The Middle Passage Blues." Summary of events of ''Transatlantic Passages" conference in Tenerife says: The final word of the conference was left to a visionary. James Emanuel had composed a poem for the occasion (included in this issue of the Newsletter). At the end of the debates and the entertainments and the ceremonials, he read "Middle Passage Man," a hallowed tribute to his slave grandmother and a renewed proof of African American genius ( page 5). • REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ESSAYS/ENTRIES ON ME: Not Important to me JAE. International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 11th ed., "1995/96" (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press). EXHIBITIONS CONTAINING MATERIAL RELATED TO ME: 13-28 May Brussels "Exposition/ Maison des Artistes." Showed Godelieve Simons's engravings on my "Negritude" and haiku " ••• smooth stone," plus works by Elio de Gregorio, Myriam Vandenhende, & Charlotte Vanden Eeckaut. MISCELLANEOUS: 2 Nov., Godelieve Simons continued her video documentary about me by filming the rehearsal #2 of Chansse Evanns and me, at 78 rue Amelot, Paris, for our 8 Nov. jazz-haiku gig at the American Library in Paris.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/1/9/5/195f891c-0393-4a15-a27d-4e95ae2c00d0/attachment/96ee9f2b914425f1e4de36f2444b8b42.jpg)
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