These Poetry Readings offer an additional mode of experiencing the James A. Emanuel Project. Poetry is meant to be read, heard, recited and felt. A reading can provide a type of interpretation of the poem based on the stress, the breath, and the voice of the reader. Once a word is out, it can take on many meanings. We must make it our own.
Dr. Andree-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Professor of Anglophone Literatures Université Paris 8 (France), reads "A Pause for a Fine Phrase" by James A. Emanuel.
Jake Lamar, Novelist and Playwright, reads "Deadly James (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)" by James A. Emanuel.
John Reynolds III, Writer and Educator, reads "A Black Militant Poem Speaks" by James A. Emanuel.
Dr. Marta Werbanowska, Scholar, reads "To Kill a Morning Spider" by James A. Emanuel.
Renee Brown, English Teacher, reads "To the Negro Children of Mount Vernon" by James A. Emanuel.