Libraries Remember Angelou

摘要

After the death of celebrated autobiog-rapher, poet, and civil rights champion Maya Angelou on May 28 at her home in Winston-Salem, NC, the. Academy of American Poets sent "Still I Rise," perhaps her best-known poem, to its 300,000 Poem-a-Day subscribers. The airing of that memorably uncompromising piece-"You may write me down in history/With your bitter, twisted lies,/You may trod me in the very dirt/But still, like dust, I'll rise"-was just one example of the widespread public response to her death-so large, in fact, that while Angelou's family held a closed service at the Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University where she taught, the service was live-streamed by the university. The ceremony took place on Saturday, June 7, with Oprah Winfrey helping with the arrangements and country singer Lee Ann Womack performing.