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  Homage to Phillis Wheatley casts poet, who was enslaved, as historical role model

  A poet, a slave. An ode to freedom. In Alison Clarke’s first poetry collection, Phillis, the award-winning YA author of The Sisterhood series draws from her work as a spoken word artist and member of Alberta’s Stroll of Poets to craft an homage to Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry, who, remarkably, did so while enslaved.

  By Steve Locke     Issue 77, Fall/Winter 2020/21