This panel invites scholars to submit papers on poetry by/about abolitionists W. L. Garrison, F. Douglass, John G. Whittier and W. E. Channing, Charlotte Forten Grimke and other abolitionists in order to look back and explore the poetic continuities in Boston's abolitionist community. In exploring the relationships of abolitionists with the greater political issues that confronted them, do we observe poetry serving as an imbued literary venue between mainstream culture and Boston's abolitionist community? Send one page abstract by September 10, 2008: anadolu@temple.edu Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any)

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Feb 26 - March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

For the complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention (posted in June), please visit www.nemla.org. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel; however, panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants may present at a paper session panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable