Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, 50th Anniversary Convening
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, 50th Anniversary Convening
November 1-4, 2023 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.
Please see: www.jsums.edu/philliswheatley/
In On Being Female, Black, and Free, Margaret Walker astutely acknowledges the impact of Black women writers and their unfortunate invisibility in the canon. Owing to an unwillingness to see their blackness and their womanness as anything other than a hindrance, the mainstream attempts to erase their contributions.