One with a penchant for the Ancient Greek language and mythology. In his preface to her first published volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Morals, her master John Wheatley ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

BOSTON — Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett’s first poet laureate role in history.

They include Phillis Wheatley, who is considered to be one of the first Black and enslaved people to publish a book of poems. She learned English and history from the elite Boston family who ...