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Today Lucy is celebrated as the first African-American poet ever to be published, though she didn’t live to see her words in print.

Lucy Terry Prince Published: 7/21/2021 3:20:26 PM Sharp-eyed readers of the July 10 Recorder article on the Lucy Terry Prince Day in Deerfield, Margaret Freeman and the Rev. Dr. Smith-Penniman, are correct. Phillis Wheatley is indeed the first published in print African American poet, not Lucy Terry. The Recorder’s headline for the article was in error leading into the story with the words “Lucy Terry Prince Day to celebrate first published Black poet.” Staff writer DomenicPoli, who inter...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   To the Editor: On Sunday, July 11th, a group of more than 30 area residents gathered outside Sunderland’s Town Hall to commemorate the Bicentennial of Lucy Terry Prince’s death in the town of Sunderland. For readers who do not know the Lucy Prince Story, she was a former slave, brought to New England from Africa as a young child. Through her engrossing poem “Bars Fight” (1746), she’s in our American history books as...