James A. Emanuel (1921 - Present)

James A. Emanuel was born in 1921 in Alliance, Nebraska. His books include Jazz from the Haiku King (1999), Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958–1989 (1990), The Broken Bowl: New and Uncollected Poems (1983), Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems (1978), and At Bay (1969). He is also the author of Langston Hughes (1967) and the editor, with Theodore L. Gross, of Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America (1968). An expatriate African-American, Emanuel lives in Paris.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

Jazz From the Haiku King
	« I'm A Jazz Singer, » She Replied
	Bojangles And Jo
	Charlie "Bird" Parker
	Ella Fitzgerald	1 Comment
	Four-Letter Word
	Greens
	Jazzanatomy	3 Comments
	John Coltrane
	Louis Armstrong And Duke Ellington
	Mahalia Jackson
	Michael Jackson	3 Comments
Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989
	A Fool For Evergreen	1 Comment
	Emmett Till *	1 Comment
	False Notions, Fears, And Other Things Of Wood
	Fishermen
	For A Depressed Woman	3 Comments
	Françoise And The Fruit Farmer
	Poet As Fisherman
	The Treehouse
	The Young Ones, Flip Side
	Wishes, For Alix