Brie Martin

Apr 1, 2024 | poetryinamerica.org | Paula Byrne |Brie Martin |Gideon Leek |Amanda Gorman

In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who mastered the most persuasive rhetoric of the day to publish enduring arguments about freedom. Inaugural poets Amanda Gorman and Richard Blanco, writer Clint Smith, and scholars Glenda Carpio and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. join host Elisa New to read two of Wheatley’s poems for public occasions. Special thanks to our humanities advisers: Raquel Kennon & Adam Bradley. Interested in learning more?