Exhibitor Application: Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State University
This November, the Margaret Walker Center is hosting the 50th anniversary reconvening of the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival in Jackson! In 1973, Margaret Walker hosted a groundbreaking conference for Black women writers for the bicentennial of Phillis Wheatley’s work, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Fifty years later, seven of the ten living attendees from the original Festival, including