EPISODE · Jun 12, 2020 · 14 MIN
Maya Angelou
from Now I've Heard Everything · host Bill Thompson
Few poets ever rise to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Maya Angelou. But of course, she was much more than a poet -- essayist, memoirist, and civil rights activist. And not a bad singer, as you'll hear in a few minutes. She worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton. I met her a few months later.
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Few poets ever rise to the kind of prominence enjoyed by Maya Angelou. But of course, she was much more than a poet -- essayist, memoirist, and civil rights activist. And not a bad singer, as you'll hear in a few minutes. She worked with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton. I met her a few months later.
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