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Saturday, August 3 • 10:15am - 11:45am
Finding Mrs. Phillis: a poets lemonade

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Poet Phillis Wheatley Peters survived and was published while enslaved. She did it by making connections - the sweetest cup of lemonade within her sour situation! We will discuss poems and letters she shared with folks/ you will get prompts and write poems based on the theme. 
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Toni Bee

Poet / Curator/ Event Host/ Founder / StoryTeller, tonibee.org
Toni Bee is a poet, educator, and photographer raised in Boston, MA, educated in Roxbury. She was elected Poet Populist of Cambridge - the first woman to grace that position.  Toni is also the Inaugural Cambridge Poetry Ambassador and was a teaching artist and storyteller at The... Read More →

Saturday August 3, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
G106 - Global Heritage Hall
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