Wheatley died in poverty at the age of 31 in 1784, leaving behind an unfinished legacy. As the first published African American poet, Phillis Wheatley-Peters paved the way for future Black writers ...

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 ...

Boston-based poet Tiana Clark hopes to show her courage and confidence with her award-winning poems. In her new book, ...

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 ...