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Article: Maya A Precious Prism.
- Article from:
- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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As a poet and personality, Maya Angelou always commands that we expect the world!
It is entirely fitting that the month in which Maya Angelou celebrates her birthday--April--is also National Poetry Month. On April 4, she turns 73. In 1993, she was acknowledged as a treasured national literary resource and poetic visionary when our 42nd President, William Jefferson Clinton, chose her as his Inaugural Poet. To seal her in our national literary pantheon for the New Milennium, he also bestowed on her, just before he left office, the National Medal of Arts.
Angelou is a precious national prism: a resilient and multi-faceted instrument through which we are ...