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Word Works: Ellen Bass on Controlled Chaos

August 8, 2020August 4, 2021 Author

Hugo House published on January 5, 2017 Co-presented by LiTFUSE A certain kind of poem, story, or essay reaches out a long arm and sweeps disparate, unexpected things into its net. It scoops in a great deal of material that is more or less obviously related. It doesn’t hug the shore. It doesn’t walk a narrow line. It retains a kind of wildness. It can…

Still I Rise by Dr. Maya Angelou

April 3, 2020May 16, 2021 Author

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. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like…