Name: AFTER PHILLIS
Start: 2026-08-19T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-19T22:00:00-07:00
Location: World Stage Performance Gallery

AFTER PHILLIS

Sims Library of Poetry

Women poets on lineage, language, & the legacy of Phillis Wheatley.

World Stage Performance Gallery

What does it mean to write in the wake of Phillis Wheatley?Join host Hiram Sims for an evening centering women poets, lineage, language, and the enduring legacy of Phillis Wheatley. Part reading, part reflection, and part literary gathering, After Phillis considers how Black women poets continue to shape the page—and what they inherit, revise, and make anew.Presented as part of the World Stage Press Classics Series. Stop by the WSP Book Table to shop books from the series and titles by featured poets.

AFTER PHILLIS

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