protip: don’t judge Maya Angelou’s poetry if you aren’t familiar with it

So I alluded to this in my last post, but it’s worth making it more explicit: unless you can name three of Maya Angelou’s collections without Googling, and unless you are familiar with her work from before, say, 1990, you probably shouldn’t be publicly critiquing her work. Because the initial wave of commemoration for her … Continue reading protip: don’t judge Maya Angelou’s poetry if you aren’t familiar with it