Today 230 years ago Phillis Wheatley the first Black person to publish a collection of poems in the United States, witness to the American Revolution, acquaintance of a Queen and a President, died free, cold and poor somewhere in Boston. She was in her early 30s.
If you want to participate in what June Jordan called “the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America” and have your own limited edition print of Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “frontispiece remastered” collage in her honor just send the note “Wheatley Collage” and your current address with your $35 donation to Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.
Also if you want info on our online gathering last night to prepare for Phillis’s ascension check this out: http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/12/05/prophecy-poem-impermanence-after-phillis/
