Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

which Anderson's will sell on Jan. 20. One of these rarities is a first edition of "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of ...

Considered the first published Black poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) learned to read and write from the Wheatleys, a prominent family in Boston who purchased her as a slave when she was a ...

Phillis Wheatley was a prominent African American poet during the American Revolutionary period. She is recognised for her fervent commitment to the abolition of slavery. Wheatley was the first ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world ... She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the British ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... apparently led to a friendship with Occum, who was also a poet, and who later published an Indian hymnal. On February 11, 1774 ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.

Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett’s first poet laureate role in history.

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...