Maya Angelou Poems & Books on Audio

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.

Maya Angelou—critically-acclaimed poet, writer, and playwright—is a living testament to what a woman may become when she sings the sassy song of herself.

The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose and is filled with unforgettable vignettes....

In this beautiful exploration of her life in 1960s Africa, Maya Angelou reaffirms her stature as one of the most gifted authors of our time....

Listen to Grammy Award-winning poet Maya Angelou read her newest work, Amazing Peace, as well some of her best-loved poems in this unique and inspiring audio collection....

"I'm told that poetry is obliged to be mystical, magical, musical and lyrical," began Ms. Angelou on our stage the evening of December 9, 1971. "And I believe that the great poetry in the United States is the poetry that came out of and still comes out of the black experience."

TV series made by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society.

This perfect poetry companion brings the words of the world's favorite poets to life. Hearing poetry spoken - as it was originally intended to be heard...