Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child ... Wheatley could not find an American publisher for her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, so the Wheatley family ...

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman ... It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and ...

In her new book, “Scorched Earth,” Clark ... Lee and other poets of color like Rita Dove and Phillis Wheatley inspired Clark’s poetry, and she includes attributions to many of them within her work. It ...