Even before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou was lifted ... showcases the title of one of Angelou’s most famous poems, “Still I Rise” — a particularly relevant ...

Discover the incomparable Maya Angelou with this unforgettable ... Her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is still an essential volume. As friends from Dr. Angelou’s inner circle ...

Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou ... known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration.

Interestingly, it also seems like a reference to Maya Angelou's famous feminist poem "Still I Rise" ("Does my sexiness upset you? / Does it come as a surprise / That I dance like I've got diamonds ...

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Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most ...