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![Christmas 2002 Notes on Literary Happenings of the Year (James A. Emanuel) Dear Friends, l submit this 12th list of Christmas-card padding: Entries known too late for prior lists: Tyler Stovall’s Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light 1996) devotes Pages 302-304 to me. 869S 302-304 to me. My review essay “On Selected Poems” is in Robert Hayden: Essay on the Poetry (Ann Arbor: Univ . of Michigan Press , 2001), pp. 63-64. Revlew of JAZZ from the Haiku King in American Book Review, July-August 2000, by John Frazier. Review of the same book in Black Issues Book Review, March – April 2001, p. 38, by Brian Gilmore. My FIRST INTERNET reference: Dan Schneider’s essay “The Not So Strange Emanuel Case,” 6pp. on cosmoetica@att.nett. (6 March 2001), begins “In the annals of American poetry it is difficult to conceive of a more neglected great poet than James A. Emanuel.” POETRY READINGS: 2002 only 19 Feb: The Live Poets Society, Flann O’Brien’s Irish Pub, Paris, JAE with Jacques Rancourt and Sean Street. Several listeners told the organizer John Kliphan “how much they were moved” by JAE (say the letter). 8 March: The Red Wheelbarrow, Paris. With Barry Wallenstein & John Kliphan. 9 March: Le Chat Noir, Paris. With Barry Wallenstein + Soisik Libert; Chansse Evans on saxophone, Jeff Catoire contrabass. 24 June: JAE’s apt., Paris. Syracuse Univ. (New York) seminar “Paris Noir: Literature, Culture, and Contemporary Life” led by Prof. Janis Mayes. With Godelieve Simons demonstrating, vis visual art & discussion, how she joins her engravings, etc. and my poetry. (See Art Exhibitions below.) POEMS ON INTERNET: “For the 4th Grade, Prospect School: How I Became a Poet.” Rptd & ana-lyzed, pp, 6-8 of Dan Schneider’s essay Masculine Rites of Passage: 6 Great American Poems, http://www.cosmoetica.com./S*-DES6.htm (31 May) “Eleven Poems by [JAE] from his JAZZ from the Haiku King, with Translations by Jean Migrenne” (these 11-poem groups accessible on http://www.plagiarist.com/features/emanuel/whole_grain.php and http://www.plagiarist.com/features/emanuel/jazz.php (both 19 Jue) “The Negro,” “For a Farmer,” “Sonnet for a Writer,” and “To Kill a Morning Spider” rptd & anlyzed in essay “The Not So Strangle Emanuel Case.” POEMS IN BOOKS: The Norton Introduction to Literature. 8th Ed. Beaty, Booth, Hunter and Mays (New York: W.W. Norton). “Jazznatomy,” p. 1009; “Ray Charles,” 1144; “Emmett Till,” 1166-67; blog., A.75. Probably the first printing by a major academic anthology of jazz-haiku, a form I created in 1992. Poetry in Performance 30, Anniv. Edn., Spring Poetry Festival of CCNY (New York: The Print Center). “Women Laughing,” p. 163. ESSAY BY JAE: “Crossing the Musical Bridge: a Poet’s Collaborations with Musicians,” in Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies 11, pp. 195-97. BOOK REVIEWS (OF JAE’S WORKS): Hakutani, Yoshinobu, re JAZZ from the Haiku King, in African American Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Winter 2001) (rec’d Apr. 2002), pp. 681-84. Chevalier, Victoria., re The Force and the Reckoning in American Book Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jan./Feb. 2002), p. 29. INTERVIEWS OF JAE (WITH VIDEO): 11 March: by Julian Johnson (2 hours) 11 July: by Lester Sloan & daughter Aisha (3 hours) ART EXHIBITS SHOWING JAE POEMS & BOOKS: 8-21 April: 11eme Biennale Internationale de Gravure en Val d’Oise at Theatre Pierre Fresnay in Ermont, France. 2 haiku of series of 7 in Godelieve Simons’ Les nuits de la pleine lune. 24 July: Cite Universitaire, Maison des Etudiants Armeniens, Paris. Poetry reading & discussion (with Hunter College students from the City Univ. of New York and their Prof. Janet Hulstrand), with Godelieve Simons showing and discussing her works of art and how they use JAE literary works. Art + poetry examples: “pleine lune” & “Smooth stone” & Rhythm in Black and White haiku; JAZZ FORCE & CD cover art.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/a/b/9/ab977b14-ef55-435d-975b-cbc332821fe8/attachment/45bd959fac34254662da8148826298d0.jpg)
Christmas 2002 Notes of 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
James A. Emanuel's Family Shares Photos and Stories
James A. Emanuel interviewed by Adele Trolin, April 16, 1966
"Song for Something Pretty'' poem by James A. Emanuel and music by Earl Rogers Interview with James A. Emanuel by Adele"
The Middle Passage Blues