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.

Page Views	Poem	Comments
3718	Four-Letter Word
3506	For A Depressed Woman	3 Comments
3206	Michael Jackson	1 Comment
3168	Emmett Till *
2611	Greens
2455	« I'm A Jazz Singer, » She Replied
2323	The Treehouse
2255	Bojangles And Jo
2231	Fishermen
2150	Charlie "Bird" Parker
1971	The Young Ones, Flip Side
1970	Louis Armstrong And Duke Ellington
1940	A Fool For Evergreen	1 Comment
1841	Ella Fitzgerald	1 Comment
1805	Poet As Fisherman
1622	Jazzanatomy	3 Comments
1447	Wishes, For Alix
1351	Mahalia Jackson
1195	False Notions, Fears, And Other Things Of Wood
1192	John Coltrane
768	Françoise And The Fruit Farmer