Written in one of its many books is the poem “On the Death of Love Rotch,” dated 1767. It is believed to be the earliest known full-length elegy by Phillis Wheatley, the Boston-based author ...

They taught Phillis to read and write ... How do you create an epic of the self and a self that's enslaved?" Some of Wheatley's poetry, particularly her poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America," ...

A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery. By Jennifer Schuessler Around 1772 ...

Biography of 18th Century Poet Phillis Wheatley Is Winner of George Washington Prize NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets ...

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 ...

David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journey Through American Slavery and Independence" is this year's winner of the George Washington Prize, which honors works ...