![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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Uploaded ![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.)](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/a/e/1/ae1bba7e-be0a-4c17-b2ad-3b295b51a73e/attachment/cb51a2f9411051443d0a0f785a532cda.jpg)
Christmas 1994 Notes on Literary Happenings
![Dear Friends, I submit this second list of Christmas-card padding: Publications omitted from 1991 list: From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980, by Michel Fabre Urbana & Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991). Final Chap. 21,entitled "James Emanuel: A Poet in Exile." Les Elytres du Hanneton (revue de l'Association Grenier Jane Tony, Bruxelles), No. 113 (septembre 1991). "A Negro Author" & trans. "Un Auteur Noir," par Marvin Holdt, 57-58. , No. 114 (octobre 1991). "Poet as Fisberman” & trans. "Poete et pecheur," par Jean Migrenne, 4-7 1992 NOTES CONTINUE BELOW: ________ PUBLICATIONS: Negative Capability, XI, No. 3 (1991 [available 1992]). Interview of JAE by Jean Mciver, 251-65, followed by 5 poems ( one o.mitted inadvertently). Le Journal des Poetes, "6le annee Numero 8" (dec. 1991). Biog. note and "L' homme qui faisait des noeuds" ( "The Knotmaker"), 11, trans. J. Migrenne. (3 publications related to the Sorbonne international conference of 5-9 Feb. 92, "Les Noirs Americains et l 'Europe.” had poems by and/or info. re JAE: American and French conference handbooks plus Michel Fabre and John A. Williams' book Way B( l)ack Tben and Now ( 15 different pages refer to JAE). Double Trouble: Poems, by Ted Joans and Hart Leroy Bibbs (Paris: Editions Bleu Outremer, 1992). Preface by JAE. (Langston Hughes, 1967, by JAE, on DiscLit: American Autbors--'Twayne' s United States Authors Series and OCLC Subject Bibliographies on CD Rom, "the first full-text CD Rom in the humanities," says G.K. Hall & Co. African American Review, XXVI, No. 2 (summer 1992). Poems by JAE, 274-77: "The Downhill Blues, " "The Knockout Blues," "The Poor Man Blues," 2 baikus called "Mysteries" and 5 "Harlemites Talking About Movies." Review of Whole Grain by Matthew C. Brennan (with several questionable aspects). The Black Scholar, XX, No. 3 (Summer 1992). JAE's 3-col. review of Naomi Long Madgett’s Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men (Detroit: Lotus Press, 1992), pp. 79-80. African American Poetry (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Globe Book Go., 1993 [but sent me in Nov. 92/). "For Malcolm, U.S.A.," p. 69. Premices, Bruxelles, Numero 11 (dec. 1992, jan./fev. 1993). Pmoto & biog. sketch of JAE, p. 17; poem "C'que disent les Vieux Negres" J. Migrenne's trans. of "Old Black Men Say"], p. 18. POETRY READINGS GIVEN: - 15 .Feb.: borne of Nancy & Duncan Caldwell, Paris ( "Hommage a Langston Hughes"). 26 March: Lycee Malherbe, Caen (with Jean Migrenne ) . Part of anniv. celebration of publisher Amiot-Lenganey. _ 28 March: "Rencontre avec un Editeur LAmiot-Lenganey" w/Migrenne et al, Caen. 13 Apr: Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, w/Ted Joans & Hart Leroy Bibbs. 14 Dec. 91 [forgotten in 91]. Institut d'Anglais Charles V, Univ. de Paris VII [Genevieve Fabre], w/ others at conference "Lire en Amerique." 4 May: Tea & Tattered Pages Bookstore, w/ Ted Joans and Hart Leroy Bibbs. Paris 8 May: Cannibal Pierce Galerie-Librairie Australienne, Saint-Denis, w/Sorbonne art-plus-poetry display (see below). (Sold all books on band.) 9 July: FNAC Librairie Internationale, Paris, with Ted Joans. (Michel Fabre, in introduction, compared my poetry with that of Hobert Lowell and Frost.; 15 July: Galerie 1900 2000, Paris, w/Ted Joans to end his art exhibit there. 10 Oct.: Assn Grenier Jane Tony, Brussels, w/dinner-readings by guests, from De la rage au coeur, later. Godelieve Simons read the French versions. Sold all 12 books taken there (to venue "La Fleur en Papier Dore"). 15 Oct.: Lycee Saint-Exupery, Mantes-la-Jolie: all-day appearances as part of Fete du Livre et des Langues, international. Later received in the mail comments & signatures from students (48 as of today, 9 Dec. 1992). 26 Oct.: Finnegans Wake pub, Paris (J. Migrenne reading the French),w/John Klipha 6 Nov.: Univ. of Oxford, England (Maison Francaise) dinner w/faculty et al. My Sorbonne display of 15 panels, art-plus-poetry, was part of the event. PUBLICATION PRINCIPAL: (50 in each language) De la rage au coeur (Amiot-Lenganey), bilingual, 50 poems; trans. J. Migrenne. MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS: "International Man of the Year, 1991-1992” Award from Cambridge England. 14-22 Nov.: Exposition. Centre cultural d'Anderlecht, Brussels: '2 engravings by Godelieve Simons illustrated poems by JAE. 5-7 Feb. 15-panel display of mostly European art illustrating JAE's poems, as part of Sorbonne international conference "African Americans and Europe-"](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/e/2/5/e251b55e-c298-4d69-a19d-a22b6fac2029/attachment/78b1cd8aed96b298050ff02579b705a4.jpg)
Christmas 1992 Notes on Literary Happenings
![Christmas 1991 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanual) Dear Friends, Taking, for the first time, this economical (in terms of Energy, one of Blake's gods) means of padding my greeting cards, I submit these items: Works published: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press), reviewed so far only once, as far as I know (on the Book Page of The Richmond News Leader, the caption reading "Huge Poetry Collection Showcases Emanuel,"on 24 July. Alan Jenkins, poetry editor of The Times Literary Supplement, London, wrote a pleasant note to me, saying that my book was "under consideration for review." We'll see. Black American Literature Forum promises a summer 1992 review. Inedit , No. 47 (Dec. 1990), Brussels: poem "The Crooners," with a translation by Charles R.A. Melchers / "(Adaptation Raymond G.A. Quinot)" [who wrote a brief book on Langston Hughes in 1964]- Les Elytres du Hanneton, No. 112 (Sep. 1991), Brussels: poems "Crossing the Square, Montparnasse," with a translation by Jean Migrenne, and "The Young Ones, Flip Side," with a translation by Marvin Holdt. <- . . The Kenyon Review (see under Miscellaneous below) Poetry readings given: 6 Feb.: home of Michel Fabre, hommage a Langston Hughes, group of students and friends, including Ted Joans. Reading recorded. Paris. 18 April: Harambe Club's cultural show at "St. Louis Blues” cafe on rue Blomet, Paris. A woman whispered to me as I left, "Jill [Jill Bourdais de Charbonniere, Vice-Presidente, Arts Miusique Echange] says you're the best poet alive!" Jill is not a literary critic. 5 June: Festival Franco-Anglais de Poesie, Paris. Read my translations of two poems by Congolese poet Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, "Village Disparu" and "Pont et Confluent." 22 June & 7 Sep.: read two poems each time, at Association Grenier Jane Tony, Brussels, with French translations by Jean Migrenne read by Godelieve Simons, my Belgian graveuse. 18 Oct.: Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, Paris, first of the Fire Readings (title of anthology of readings in Paris, New York, Boston, and London to help rebuild the bookstore after the July 1990 fire; book has two of my poems, and my photo--reading--introduces the Paris section 23 Oct.: l'Atelier Blau gallery, Paris, second of tbe Fire Readings. 14 Dec.: Universite Paris Vll / Institut Charles V. Read with--and met for the first time--Barbara Chase-Riboud, Patricia Smith, Louis Rodriguez et al to end the 2-day "Lire en Amerique" conference there. Miscellaneous literary events: The Kenyon Review, N.S., XIII, 4 (Fall 1991): haiku and my first blues poem. Managing Ed. Martha Finan writes, "I LOVE 'Sittin'-Log Blues!"' Alice Vreeken, my Alliance, Nebraska,classmate-;-has vowed by January to publicize my poetry constantly. Her former name: Alice Pearson. Alliance's main library has bought all my books, and the town's new Carnegie Arts Center begins it Poetry Collection with Whole Grain. Translations of my poems into German begin with efforts by Sieghild Bogumil and Diana Schroeter-Al Nama; Diana's husband composed a guitar music rendition of my song "Everybody's Songbird." Godelieve Simons of Brussels exhibited engravings of my poems at Vaisonla- Romaine (April), for La Fondation our l'Art Bel e Contemporain (June) and at the Pareri gallery Oct. , both in Brussels. 11 April: book party in Caen for Foetes de New York Mosaique. Nathalie Maillard, a young painter there, mailed to me four water colors, for three of which I composed haiku on 20-21 May and sent them to her. 26 July: In this small apartment I crowded ten teachers and students touring from the USA (African American and African), who talked excitedly about literature and race, sipping wine. Dr. Norman Loftis, responsible for them, phoned me from Spain--but forgot to reimburse me 11 Oct.: Found Whole Grain on display at tbe huge Frankfurt Book Fair 12 at the New American Writing stand (plus Octavia, by Naomi Long Madgett, 12 Dec •• La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, Paris, offers me big wall space 500x220 cm to display European art, etc. created to illustrate my poetry, for the Feb. 1992 conference at the Sorbonne.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/8/b/d/8bd6e2d1-ae9f-432f-bc8f-f230b460ec2c/attachment/ca9d01c56fca02cc642056025bc50f04.jpg)
Christmas 1991 Notes on Literary Happenings
![Christmas 1993 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. EMANUEL) Dear Friends, I submit this third list of Christmas-card padding: Publications, etc., inadvertently omitted from 1992 list: "Panorama" radio (France Culture) discussion, 3 Sept. 92, of my bi-lingual book of poems, De la rage au coeur (trans. Jean Migrenne). The Dallas Morning News, 15 March 92, article/interview by Toni Y. Joseph, with photos, pp. 1, 6F. Poem "A Bench to Bear" in Poetry in Performance 20, spring 92, The City College of New York. 1993 LITERARY HAPPENINGS, BELOW: PUBLICATIONS BY ME: "A Force in the Field," 58-page memoir, with photos, in Volume 18 of Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (Detroit: Gale Research). ANTHOLOGY CONTAINING MY WORK: Pass It On: African-American Poetry for Children (New York: Scholastic, Inc.). "The Voyage of Jimmy Poo" and full-page illustration in color. POETRY READING: 11 Feb., Universite de Paris VIII, where I unveiled my "jazz-haiku." MUSIC ALBUM TO CONTAIN ONE OF MY SONGS: 10 July letter from Hollywood Artists Record Company says "The record/cassette album containing your ['No Place for a Lady'] is now being processed, and is scheduled for release...in approx 90-180 days." BOOK REVIEW/ESSAY ON MY WHOLE GRAIN: In American Book Review, Feb/Mar, by James de Jongh. ART EXHIBITIONS TREATING MY POETRY: Exhibitions of gravures by Godelieve Simons based on my poetry, in Brussels, Belgium ("Negritude" and haiku "Inside a smooth stone," 30 April-16 May, the JECTA artists, Maison Pelgrims at Ixelles); Vilvoorde, Belgium ("Deadly James," 6 June, a Group 9999 exposition); Grignan, France ("Deadly James" 10 July-28 August, l'Association Colophon, l'Atelier du chemin de ronde). REFERENCE BOOKS WITH ENTRIES ON ME: The Writers Directory (Detroit: St. James Press). International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopedia (Cambridge, England: Melrose Press Ltd). 7th Edition. HONORS AND AWARDS: For Virginia Whotley Smith: I do not consider these awards important; payment was required for association medals, etc. although not for inclusion in the books, JAE International Order of Merit; including medal with neck-ribbon (England) World Lifetime Achievement Award for 1992 (10%"-high statue received in 1993) (U.S.A.) The Twentieth Century Award for Achievement (England) The First Five Hundred Award (England) Men's Inner Circle of Achievement Award, with Lucite-crafted artwork (U.S.A.) Who's Who of the Year - 1993 (U.S.A.) International Who's Who of Intellectuals (England) World Intellectual of 1993 Award (England) Man of the Year 1993 Award (U.S.A.) PUBLICATIONS BY ME (received late: 10 December): "Eric, at the Blythe Road Post Office," in Poetry in Performance 21, April 1993, The City College of New York.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/1/2/4/12431732-4be8-4ef2-a42f-fdf15c064f7a/attachment/b9618eb633a76b7ddb245bbacd9b7205.jpg)
Christmas 1993 Notes on Literary Happenings
Letter from Leroy Hart Bibbs January 17 1994
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He'd asked a lady to write something for
him too which I haven't had time to
look at. Anyhow I'm using your text -
all every word of it.
With deaths and absences among
friends I'd thought I'd lost all of my work
but some odd pieces showed up and these
things I chose from, mostly to prepare
some legal actions and copyrights that
I lost years ago. So some of the poems
date back thirty odd years ago and
a few just the week before last. No
excuse but perhaps interesting as facts
which will entice you to have a copy of
"Double Trouble," whenever it hits the
shops.
I don’t like writers who play with words
is what I was talking 'bout before James,
seriously if I had your hand I'd throw
mine out. Your package arrived right
on time, between the mail woman
and the typist-setter, etc. Everything
perfectly magic. All the best I wish to
you my good man - a huge THANKS.
Bibs.
e you can read the scratchin'
always sloppy like this. Please have a drink.
[200F]
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Letter from Leroy Hart Bibbs November 1991 (page 2 of 2)
![indeed, the life and the body of poetry have really captivated me, and I do
not think that I will be satisfied to let them fad from immediate concern
until I have done a less dictated study than the one for DLB.
On this first day of the new year, I wish you a productive and satisfying 1982.
Sincerely
[Signature - Doug]
Douglas Watson](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/d/9/1/d9105c1a-5bd2-4188-8dfd-dc4c6852b9f2/attachment/8e69d34fcdc3f7425c32557a461e879e.jpg)
Second Letter from Douglas Watson (page 3 of 3)
Letter to Douglas Watson December 1981 (page 2 of 3)
Letter to Douglas Watson January 1982 (page 2 of 2)