Rise to literary fame In 1767, Wheatley’s first poem, “On Messrs Hussey and Coffin,” was published in the Newport Mercury newspaper. She continued to write poetry that gained attention in ...

What Ya’ Know Good? Rhonda Rawlings is here with Phllis Wheatley Arts Director Antoinette Hall to talk about the program ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...