Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

Update: 2024-08-07

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***Content Warning: This episode includes a mention of sexual violence.

Honey, it's a classic. We're rising like biscuits and reading Maya Angelou's masterpiece, "Still I Rise," from her 1978 work And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems. We are triumphant and free on this week's PoeTRY!

Read the poem here.

Maya Angelou’s biography was compiled from:

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