Ode to Neptune
Author: first_name: Phillis
last_name: Wheatley
Language: English
Year: 1771

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Ode to Neptune By Phillis Wheatley.<br>
This was the Weekly Poetry project for  June 23, 2024.  <br> ------<br>
Phillis Wheatley Peters was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where she was bought by the Wheatley family of Boston. After she learned