i just looked up some of her works, and read a few... the works seem like poetry to me... i am just wondering why you think that? i do not like the topics or the points of view of every poet--i am big Robert Frost and Walt Whitman fan myself--but i could not say that someone's works are not poetry... i have a cousin who is a published poet out of New Mexico... some of his works i can relate to... some i just do not...
i remember seeing Maya Angelou many years ago on Oprah's show... i was at my momma's house and she watched Oprah on occasion... i remember walking out--i just did not care to listen to them talk... i am not a Maya Angelou fan... she stood on the opposite side on what is important to me... but i guess i can say that she was a poet with her point of view... now why it was that she was and will continue to be so celebrated, i do not know... that i do not get...
one thing i will say, she lived a colorful life... as did Louis L'Amour--who is a favorite writer of mine...
RIP. Your work had an impact on an entire nation.
And it will take years for us to recover from that.
Maybe. But it seems some of the “poetry” of people such as Maya is little more than a stream of consciousness put to paper. There is nothing more boring than listening to someone who jumps from one thought to the next with no seeming connection between the thoughts other than a political agenda to promote. You can call it poetry if you like but I will pass.
Thank you.