Since 2014, the Celebrate! Maya Project has celebrated the life and legacy of iconic poet, writer and humanist Maya Angelou, and as in the past we will celebrate her throughout the month of April.

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and enjoy poetry. Here are some ways to celebrate around D.C.

This performance is also free. Although this is the first year for the Living Poetry Museum, Kinsey says she hopes to make it a yearly endeavor, and to keep expanding it for the community to enjoy.

While the “Celebration of Southern Poetry …honoring Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni and more,” is free, reservations must be made via Eventbrite.

Finally, Angelou, being from a time of much political tribulation, uses this poem to advance a social justice cause, stating that the Black community's love for one another, much like the other ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Explore Maya Angelou's inspiring poems for kids during Black History Month. Celebrate her legacy of resilience, hope, and empowerment.

The poem, a beautiful message of acceptance and love, was first read at the 2005 lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. Dr. Angelou wrote the poem as a gift for people of all ...

Maya Angelou had walked a long road to that podium and poem: an African American girl born in a hamlet in Jim Crow south in 1928, raped at 8, mute for five years, a single mother at 17. Now she stood ...

Maya Angelou's writing is full of wisdom, compassion, and understanding. Take a page out of her book with these inspiring quotes.