Maya Angelou at the Library of Congress (1984)

Maya Angelou at the Library of Congress (1984)

Topic 4.17

Maya Angelou Reading from Her Work at the Library of Congress (1984)

Maya Angelou lectured and read selections from her work on November 17, 1984, at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. This includes the poem “Still I Rise,” which you can find at 55:05 in the recording, and on the Poetry Foundation website. It also includes a reading of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask,” a required source for topic 3.7, at 1:02:27.

Source: “Maya Angelou Reading from Her Work,” November 17, 1984. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress.