Phillis Wheatley: To the University

Season 4 Episode 1

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Poetry in America

About the Episode

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.

Aired: 03/31/24 | Expires: 04/29/24 | Runtime: 25m 21s

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