Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published African American poets. This post explores her life as a slave and her time after being emancipated. Respected by everyone from countless historical ...

The dramatic play “Phillis in Boston” centers around the events set on the same ship of the Boston Tea Party, when Phillis Wheatley returns to Boston with her first published books of poetry. Written ...

Phillis Wheatley was a well-known poet and literary sensation during the 18th century. Born in May 1753, she was kidnapped from Gambia, West Africa at about the age of 7 and brought to Boston, ...

NOW WE TURN TO THE THEATER WHERE A PROLIFIC FIGURE IN EARLY US HISTORY IS THE FOCUS OF A NEW PLAY. PHILLIS WHEATLEY WAS AN ENSLAVED PERSON IN ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN POETS IN. PRE 19TH CENTURY AMERICA.

The Boston Women's Memorial on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in the Back Bay features three sculptures that pay tribute to women whose ideas and writing helped shape the city and the nation. One of the ...

Who are the true pioneers of nature poetry? Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black ...

Cincinnati collections house books bound in human skin. The books gained the attention of John Hancock and George Washington.

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: ...

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