“The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters” is a partnership of the University of Georgia and Texas Christian University celebrating the poet and her legacies informed by a participatory vision of the humanities and the arts.
Click here for more about the project and its co-directors.
Click here for more about the project and its co-directors.
In DFW Writes Phillis Wheatley Peters (#DFWwritesPWP), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Endia Lindo, and Carmen Kynard connect professional development opportunities for teachers with a student writing contest in honor of Phillis Wheatley as one of the multiple community events in the national Wheatley Peters Project. Captured in West Africa in 1761, Phillis Wheatley Peters arrived in Boston as a slave. Twelve years later, she published the first book of poetry by an African American. Together, we examine the ways she continues to inspire audiences today in grades 3-12 in this 250-year anniversary of her 1773 publication. Click here for more about the Wheatley Peters Project and its co-directors.
Sarah Ruffing Robbins and Carmen Kynard facilitated a Wheatley-Peters-themed writing workshop for teachers attending the TCU College of Education’s Literacy Conference in May of 2023. To promote student writing in response to the poet’s life and work, the session guided teachers through multiple writing activities across different grade levels that engage and deepen students’ understandings of the social impact of poetics. The session also prepared DFW-area educators in attendance to enable youth participation in a writing contest for elementary, middle, and high school students linked to national celebrations of Wheatley Peters in the anniversary year of her 1773 Poems’ publication organized by the Wheatley Peters Project. Click the pages below to see how DFW teachers describe the legacy of Phillis Wheatley Peters. These slides also offer examples of multimedia approaches to learning about Wheatley Peters.
