Poetry Maya Angelou

The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit...

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M. F.K . Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity.... It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night...it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”

This poetry companion puts favorite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou has served as our common voice.

A “Speak easy” Poetry Book by Reneé Drummond-Brown has manifested itself from a retro style bar in the rrroaring 1920’s that once mimicked elements of an illicit vintage nightclub during Prohibition which came full fruition into spoken-word, speaking dat truth, speaking profoundly, speaking prophetically, and speaking that poetic thAng into existence consequently ushering in the 21st century poetic prose at slam venues. Spoken word replicating facets of antique speakeasies ain’t easy, nor neva-eva been spoken and/or sounded so good in a modern-day “Speak easy,” spitting dat ...

Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by the people who know her best - her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long, and her niece, Rosa Johnson Butler - it captures Angelou at home, at work, and in the public eye.

A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of...

We all wear the mask by: author Reneé Drummond-Brown, expose the façade we carry within us each and every-day. This poetry book reveals the true meaning of man’s nature demonstrated so eloquently by none other than the late Paul Laurence Dunbar, in his poem We Wear the Mask, “That grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.” Furthermore, the book illustrates the social life of various masks worn daily, whether it is racism, actor, victim, sadity, uppity, mask-men, Klansman, cops and/or robbers. One thing for sure, and two for certain, We All Wear the Mask, cast light ...