This episode discusses the poet and writer Maya Angelou with readings of some of her poetry. It starts with a brief biography and intro to her early childhood years told in the first of her autobiographies 'I Know Why  the Caged Bird sings' before readings with analysis and discussion of some her poems, their impact and her legacy.



00:00 - Introduction

00:26 - Maya Angelou - Intro and Biography

03:34 - Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie - Poetry Collection

04:27 - No Loser No Weeper - Poem

05:43 - Still I Rise - Poem (Abridged)

08:53 - Caged Bird - Poem (Excerpt)

09:45 - On the Pulse of Morning - Poem (Excerpt)

11:03 - Legacy and Final Thoughts



Poems



Maya Angelou, "No Loser, No Weeper" from Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, Random House (New York, NY), 1971



Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise" (excerpt)  from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems. Random House , (New York, NY), 1978



Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” (excerpt)  from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?.  Random House, 1983



Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Sympathy.”" from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 2004)



Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning” (excerpt) from The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou , Penguin Random House LLC, 1994 

Readings



No Loser, No Weeper

Still I Rise - Maya Angelou Live Performance

On the Pulse of Morning - President Clinton Inauguration 1993



Other



Book on Maya Angelou from Children's Biographies Series "Little People Big Dreams"

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