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Shine My Crown<p>Remembering Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Challenged Slavery With Words <a href="https://shinemycrown.com/remembering-phillis-wheatley-the-poet-who-challenged-slavery-with-words/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shinemycrown.com/remembering-p</span><span class="invisible">hillis-wheatley-the-poet-who-challenged-slavery-with-words/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AfricanAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LiteraryLegend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryLegend</span></a></p>
FCE Continuo<p>...on qobuz or your favorite platform!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newalbum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newalbum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extendedplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extendedplay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anhymntohumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anhymntohumanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philliswheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philliswheatley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philliswheatleyelementary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philliswheatleyelementary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newpoetrypops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newpoetrypops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wabradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wabradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fcecontinuo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fcecontinuo</span></a></p>
Ian Hunt<p>In praise of offline reading and paid-for <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a>. I am now reading <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/PankajMishra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PankajMishra</span></a> on Germany and Israel in the current London Review of Books -- which I subscribe to. I thought I had 'read' this online but my attention to a screen is not really sufficient. There's also great writing by Andrea Brady on the poetry of <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a>, Jeremy Harding on the West African coups and zombie Pan-Africanism, and Deborah Friedell on <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/KatherineMansfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KatherineMansfield</span></a>.</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>Although I'm almost always working on multiple books at once, my currently-reading list is a bit crazy right now. Not including more general reading for class prep and research, I'm currently working on...</p><p>- I resumed David Waldstreicher's *The Odyssey of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a>* after some time away due to work. So glad I didn't let it fall off completely -- it's fantastic.</p><p>- I started <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MollFlanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MollFlanders</span></a> a week or two ago. Although familiar with its story and historical/literary influence, have never read it.</p><p>- I've fallen headfirst into the Library of America <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AldoLeopold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AldoLeopold</span></a> volume.</p><p>- And some skimming for class prep turned into a full read of Kathryn Olivarius's award-winning *Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom*. </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a></p>
Trevor Burrows<p>While reading these chapters, particularly the latter, I thought of Catherine Brekus's *Sarah Osborn's World*. In telling Osborn's story, Brekus details the many channels and forms that the religious work of early American women took (in part because formal access to the pulpit is mostly off-limits to them). </p><p>Thinking of Phillis Wheatley as doing *evangelical* work as a young poet/a young woman/a young enslaved person invites us to think of Phillis Wheatley as working in the tradition of female preaching, working in the same world, in fact as Sarah Osborn -- whose own relationship to race and slavery was of course quite complicated.</p><p>I am looking forward to thinking more about these two works together alongside each other.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SarahOsborn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarahOsborn</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FemalePreaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FemalePreaching</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GreatAwakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatAwakening</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a></p><p>2/2</p>
Trevor Burrows<p>David Waldstreicher - The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).</p><p>Started this last night, really enjoying it. The project Waldstreicher pursues here -- that of deeply contextualizing Wheatley's life and writings and understanding her as actively engaged with the 18th-century Atlantic world(s) -- feels like a minor revelation already, and I'm not that far in! More to come.</p><p>(I am trying something new with sharing passages and thoughts on my reading: a "root" post for the book/volume, commentary and shared passages will be added as replies. So additional commentary will be added to this post as a series of replies. For those who are uninterested, this may make it easier to mute a single conversation and unclutter your timeline.)</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowReading</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a></p>
Cindy Weinstein<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MikeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeMiles</span></a> is the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Houston</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/superintendent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superintendent</span></a> turning <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> into <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> centers. "[The TEA] would place Miles @ the helm of the state's largest school district after years of poor academic outcomes at a single campus in the district, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> High School." The awful irony is too much to bear (Wheatley). &amp; "He wanted to forbid school board members from searching for a new superintendent while he finished out his last year &amp; wanted access to a retention bonus. <a href="https://abc13.com/houston-isd-state-takeover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abc13.com/houston-isd-state-ta</span><span class="invisible">keover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston</span></a></p>
Cindy Weinstein<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@oh_that_courtney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>oh_that_courtney</span></a></span>. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MikeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeMiles</span></a> is his name. "The TEA announced earlier this month it would place Miles @ the helm of the state's largest school district after years of poor academic outcomes @ a single campus in the district, Phillis Wheatley High School." Having <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Miles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miles</span></a> oversee (right word) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> HS is rich. "He wanted to forbid school board members from searching for a new superintendent while he finished out his last year &amp; wanted access to a retention bonus. <a href="https://abc13.com/houston-isd-state-takeover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abc13.com/houston-isd-state-ta</span><span class="invisible">keover-of-hisd-largest-district-in-texas-mike-miles/13410708/#:~:text=Houston%20ISD's%20new%20superintendent%20Mike,in%20Dallas%20schools%20%2D%20ABC13%20Houston</span></a></p>
Jane Rosenberg LaForge<p>Phillis Wheatley: we shouldn’t hesitate to call this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> a genius. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230220-phillis-wheatley-the-unsung-black-poet-who-shaped-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/travel/article/2023022</span><span class="invisible">0-phillis-wheatley-the-unsung-black-poet-who-shaped-the-us</span></a></p>
Tony Pennino<p>“In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”<br /><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BLM</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>poetry</span></a></p>
Laura Franey<p>Very interesting! <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/EarlyAmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarlyAmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a> // UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley | University at Albany</p><p><a href="https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2023-ualbany-professor-finds-new-poem-famed-early-american-poet-phillis-wheatley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">albany.edu/news-center/news/20</span><span class="invisible">23-ualbany-professor-finds-new-poem-famed-early-american-poet-phillis-wheatley</span></a></p>
Pierre Huyghebaert<p>[Via Écrire contre l'oubli]<br>"Née au <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/S%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sénégal</span></a>, elle s'appelait Phillis, du nom du bateau qui l'avait amenée et Wheatley, qui était le nom du marchand qui l'avait achetée. <br>Arrivée à <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boston</span></a>, les négriers la mettent en vente :<br>Elle est reniflée, tâtée, nue, par de nombreuses mains.<br>"Elle a sept ans !... elle sera une bonne jument !" <br>A treize ans, elle écrivait déjà des poèmes dans une langue qui n'est pas la sienne et personne ne croyait qu'elle en était l'auteur. <br>A l'âge de vingt ans, Phillis a été interrogée par un tribunal de dix-huit hommes éclairés en robes et perruques.<br>Elle devait réciter des textes de Virgile, Milton et quelques passages de la bible et elle devait aussi jurer que les poèmes qu'elle avait écrits, n'étaient pas des plagias.<br>Jusqu'à ce que le tribunal accepte qu'il s'agissait d'une femme, qu'elle était noire, <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/esclave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esclave</span></a> et aussi poète !...<br><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a>, fut la première écrivaine <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/AfroAm%C3%A9ricaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfroAméricaine</span></a> à publier un livre aux États-Unis."<br><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_</span><span class="invisible">Wheatley</span></a><br><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/po%C3%A9sie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poésie</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/esclavage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esclavage</span></a></p>
Cultura Nova<p>"Chasing Phillis Wheatley."</p><p>"I don’t catch Phillis Wheatley’s joke at first. I miss it because I don’t know yet to read for her humor. [...] Why can’t we imagine that a twenty-one-year-old woman would tell jokes? The answer, I now suspect, is that it’s in part because of our dependency on Wheatley’s poetry. "</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhillisWheatley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhillisWheatley</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/authenticity/articles/chasing-phillis-wheatley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hedgehogreview.com/issues/auth</span><span class="invisible">enticity/articles/chasing-phillis-wheatley</span></a></p>
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