The Bookstore Besties interview Dr. Don Holmes, and they discuss 18th century published author and poet Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book.
Poems by Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin
To S.M. an African Painter
Book by Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley With Letters and a Memoir (isbn #978-0-486-47593-6)
Other Authors/Poets mentioned
Author Venture Smith
Author William Grimes
Still I Riseby Maya Angelou
Bar Fight by Lucy Terry
An Evening Thought by Lucy Terry
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