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Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
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 ...
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‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began
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 ...
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Poet Tiana Clark pairs gut-wrenching imagery with accessible language in ‘Scorched Earth’
Boston-based poet Tiana Clark hopes to show her courage and confidence with her award-winning poems. In her new book, ...