Inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “Sympathy,” Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical representation of the African American experience. The poem contrasts the lives of two ...

A poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, she had gained national acclaim with her autobiography I Know Why the Caged ...

authored the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, worked alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and recited one of her poems at a US presidential inauguration.

Here she sheds further light on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first instalment ... with Maya Angelou after she was named an Official Poet to President Clinton and the United Nations to ...