August 19, 2004: A Memorable Occasion-- Dr. Maya Angelou Visits WSSU!
When Dr. Maya Angelou spoke to WSSU's New Student Convocation on August 19, she was accompanied by her "favorite living poet," Mari Evans, and she quoted or mentioned a number of other poets, including her "favorite dead poet," Paul Laurence Dunbar. If you want to learn more, check out some of the links below. To learn more than that, visit O'Kelly Library!
Maya Angelou
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"Dr. Maya Angelou, The Official Website" provides a biography and some other information and links, including one to a video clip. |
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Maya Angelou : Teacher Resource File Pages on this site usually provide links to a number of good resources. |
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Circle Association's Maya Angelou Pages Here you'll find links to a number of poems and also some sound clips. |
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Maya Angelou Poets.Org, the website of the Academy of American Poets, is a good reference site which usually provides a poet's picture and some example poems. |
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PAL: Maya Angelou This page features a list of Dr. Angelou's major works and a list of selected critical articles. |
Mari Evans
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Mari Evans Unfortunately, the Academy of American Poets doesn't have poems by Mari Evans, but it links to this site, which does. |
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Mari Evans This page particularly features children's books by Mari Evans, but it also includes some poetry. |
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"A Good Assassination Should Be Quiet" This is a poem by Mari Evans. |
Paul Laurence Dunbar ("Seen my lady home las' night . . .")
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Circle Association's Paul Laurence Dunbar Pages This has links to poems and other materials. |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection Like many poets from before 1920, Dunbar has many works that can be read online. Here you'll find links to a large selection of his poems, including "When Malindy Sings," "We Wear the Mask," and "A Negro Love Song." |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Modern American Poetry is another great reference site for research on poets and poetry. Here you will find a biography, some poems, and a number of critical articles. |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar This page focuses on the use of Dunbar's work by African American composer William Grant Still, but it also has a brief discussion of Dunbar's use of two different kinds of language. (See the poems cited above for some examples.) |
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PAL: Paul Laurence Dunbar Here you will find the text of "Sympathy," the poem from which Dr. Angelou took the title for her first volume of autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. |
Waring Cuney ("She does not know/ Her beauty . . . .")
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William Waring Cuney This page discusses Cuney and his work and quotes the entire text of his most famous poem, "No Images" ("She does not know / Her beauty. . ."). |
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"Play a Blues for Louise" This page has the text of another poem. |
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"My
Lord, What a Morning" Another poem by Cuney celebrates the great African American
boxer Jack Johnson and his landmark defeat of James Jeffries. |
Countee Cullen ("Once riding in old Baltimore . . ." ) ("For a Lady I Know")
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Countee Cullen The Academy of American poets provides a picture and a good brief biography, but unfortunately it has no poems. |
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PAL: Countee Cullen This page is mostly bibliography, but it does provide the text of "Yet Do I Marvel," one of Cullen's best-known poems. |
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) This page has the text of several poems, including "Incident" ("Once riding in old Baltimore") and "For a Lady I Know." |
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Countee Cullen Modern American Poetry offers a mixture of materials by Cullen and comments about him by others. |
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Countee Cullen As part of its exhibit on Harlem 1900-1940, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides a biography that is more detailed than many other online discussions of Cullen's life and work. |
Feedback, comments, and suggestions for other poets and sites may be sent to Rebecca Wall in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Winston-Salem State University.
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