Let’s explore how Maya Angelou’s poems can serve as an educational resource for children, by highlighting some of her most impactful works. Poetry has always been able to turn our emotions and ...

Maya Angelou's words spanned worlds: From the inner city to the presidential stage, from her painful childhood to a soaring career as a poet, professor and performer. Following news of her death ...

Her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” spoke ... and her personal story became a platform for her message of renewal and hope. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 ...

That poet is icon Maya Angelou, whose words don’t just celebrate love, but ignite strength and inspire change. Three poems stand out from the hundreds she has written in proving the mastery of ...

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," and wrote seven autobiographies and many poems, one of which she read at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Poet and Author Maya Angelou Dies at Age 86 ...

Maya Angelou’s voice seems to have a personality ... Equality, and I will be free. . . .” Much of Angelou’s poetry is dead-center understandable. The rest is still interesting — something ...

Maya Angelou composing poem for Obama Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton -- affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president -- asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read ...

Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.

Maya Angelou’s work is getting a remix as some of her books is set to be transformed into a hip-hop album! “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” is being turned into a 13-track project ...

Rhoze celebrates the late poet and activist in his new play, “Maya’s Last Poem,” opening Aug. 8. Rhoze recalled reading Angelou’s book, “Why the Caged Bird Sings,” when he was a teenager.