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The lights dim dramatically as the sounds of seagulls float over the audience and Phillis Wheatley, played by Adreyanua Jean-Louis, struts down the aisle exuding power and gracefulness.  “Phillis in Boston,” is a one-act play detailing the publication of famous author Wheatley’s collection of poems, exploring themes of racism, guilt and victory during her career....

Picks for Oct. 19-22 includes the return of OMAIs Passing the Mic, featuring Hip Hop Arts Residency Program participant Shannon Matesky; Kanopy Dances Shades of Light features premieres by Tadej Brdnik.

Annual Schewe Lecture by University of Iowa assistant professor Tara A. Bynum (in relation to "On Various Subjects: 250 Years of Phillis Wheatley" exhibit at UW Memorial Library-Room 976).

Isthmus Picks for Oct. 16-19 includes a concert by Netherlands avant-garde composer Jaap Blonk; a talk by Mailboat mystery series author Danielle Lincoln Hanna.

By Jay Moschella, Curator of Rare Books at the Boston Public Library. Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784) was an early American…

David Waldstreicher started studying Wheatley around 2009, after he had finished his book “Slavery’s Constitution.” Read more at Boston.com.

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.

Share The UT Humanities Center and Union Ave Books will host a free Public Books Circle meeting today beginning at 7 pm. The topic of discussion is The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Public Books Circle meets online twice a month and is free and open to the public. Each session is led by a UT professor, and everyone is welcome to add their voice to the discussion. Register for the book discussion meeting by clicking on this registration link. Here’s what UT says about the book...

December 23, 2020 Wesleyan University Press authors Hafizah Geter, Rae Armantrout, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers were recently longlisted for awards from PEN America. Un-American, published by Wesleyan University Press, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah Geter’s debut poetry collection,  Un-American, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. The PEN Open Book Award honors a work of fiction, literary nonfiction, biography/memoir, or poetry written by an author of color. The aw...