The Public Domain Review

Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.

An 18th-Century Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of Phillis Wheatley

Photograph of a pattern poem showing horizontal and vertical lines of text with the letters SALVS superimposed.

Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus

Sam Dolbear and Adam Green look at some 9th century examples of "pattern poetry"