BeeFound: Mrs. Phillis and Her FriendsToni Bee and Prof. Nicole Aljoe

The poet and the professor will discuss the history of Mrs. Phillis Wheatley and the friends and associates she communicated with. This event includes a lecture, poetry workshop, seed give away and garden walk. This National Poetry Month event will take place both in-person and online (lecture and workshop only).

Toni Bee is a poet, workshop facilitator, and a Poet Populist emeritus of Cambridge, MA as well as its Inaugural Poetry Ambassador. Nicole Aljoe is a Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University. They are co-authors of the article "Reading and Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters in Boston," published in the journal Early American Literature.

Free and open to all. Register to attend in-person or online.