We welcome papers and panel proposals on specific schools and movements, genres and forms, artistic influences, theoretical approaches, individual African American poets, and related topics including but not limited to:

• the Black Arts movement
• the role of anthologies in defining an African American poetry
• the influence of jazz, blues, funk, rap, hip-hop, and other musical genres
• canonization/marginalization/recovery
• the long African American poem
• what's African about American poetry?
• "double consciousness" and lyric identity
• ideolectical poetry
• hypertextual poetry

Planned topics for roundtable discussion by invited poets and scholars include:

• African American Performance Poetry and the Beat Legacy
• Experimentalism in African American Poetry
• Formalism in African American Poetry
• Uses of Narrative in African American Poetry

Several panel sessions will be devoted to readings by younger well-published African American poets. An evening open mike period will be scheduled.

Please submit 15-minute papers, 200-word abstracts, or 3-to-4-presenter panel proposals by Friday, April 18, 2003 to:

      Andrew Osborn
      DAAP
      Department of English
      356 Bachelor Hall
      Miami University
      Oxford, OH 45056

      osbornal@muohio.edu

Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please include the acryonym "DAAP" in your subject line. When convenient, include submitted text in the body of your message; any attachments should be in rich text format (.rtf).