The motto of the Phyllis Wheatley Club was “Lifting As We Climb ... serving dinners to the poor and homeless in the community, donating books by black authors to local school libraries ...
This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book. Phyllis’s life started out ...
Her most recent collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books 2015), was a finalist for the 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize and the winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry.
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