{"id":12287,"date":"2018-06-26T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12287"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:23:10","slug":"teens-from-ywca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/teens-from-ywca\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens from YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center Visit UT Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aspiring young poets from Knoxville\u2019s YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center visited the UT Knoxville campus on June 25. They stopped by Special Collections in the Hodges Library to learn more about the poet for whom the community center is named.<\/p>\n

In Special Collections, the visitors saw a rare signed first edition of Phillis Wheatley\u2019s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral<\/em>, published in 1773, the first published book by an African American woman. Wheatley was seven years old when she was captured by slavers in West Africa, transported to America, and sold at auction. She was emancipated in 1773, the year her book was published.
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Christopher Caldwell, the UT Libraries\u2019 humanities services librarian, showed the students a number of rare poetry books and explained why such rare and fragile items are housed in Special Collections.<\/p>\n

The teenagers took part in two poetry workshops this spring under the tutelage of UT English professor Katy Chiles and English major Kelli Frawley\u2014a poetry-writing workshop and a workshop on famous African American poets. In the poetry-writing workshop, students wrote poems about Knoxville, taking their inspiration from the poem \u201cKnoxville, Tennessee\u201d by poet Nikki Giovanni, a native Knoxvillian. <\/p>\n

The idea for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Project emerged from conversations between Caldwell and Chiles while the two were attending a rare books conference. <\/p>\n

The YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center is a community center in the east Knoxville area that offers programs for seniors and after-school enrichment for young people.
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