New Phillis Wheatley Poem Discovered "Among the shelves of the Historic Society of Pennsylvania’s research library, a poetry scholar appears to have discovered a quintessential piece of Boston history. Written in one of its many books is the poem 'On the Death of Love Rotch,' dated 1767. It is believed to be the earliest known full-length elegy by Phillis Wheatley, the Boston-based author who’s widely considered the first African American to publish a poetry book." via THE BOSTON GLOBE |
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What Sparks Poetry: Cecily Parks on "Girlhood" "Readers and writers of ecological poetry long ago abandoned the notion that representation alone equates to an ecological engagement with the natural world. This line of thinking draws ecopoetry and ekphrastic poetry into an agreement: description is valuable if it’s rhetorical. Rhetorical is another way of saying persuasive, or moving, but it is not another way of saying pedantic." |
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