Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power, and given poets a lane to voice their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An original newspaper printing of a letter written by American poet Phillis Wheatley is now on display at the Museum of the American Revolution. Published in 1774 on the front ...

Twelve years after being taken to Boston on a slave ship, she published an internationally acclaimed collection of poetry. But her story has often been whitewashed. Phillis Wheatley became famous for ...

Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose ...

The Phillis Wheatley Community Center Hall of Fame Champions event took place this week in Greenville, aiming to raise ...