He said Angelou will be honored at this year's poetry fair, scheduled for Saturday at the new central library.Īngelou’s 2002 Border Voices appearance drew 7,500 people to Cox Arena. She’d earned her fame, and the love people had for her.” “She’d learned humility and insight from the hard, sweet labor of writing poetry. “She was somebody with a big name and a big heart,” said Jack Webb, the group’s founder and director. She was a fan of the Border Voices Poetry Project, founded in 1993, which teaches poetry to school children in San Diego, hosts poetry fairs and publishes poetry anthologies. In February 2009, people stood in the rain for more than two hours to hear her at UC San Diego’s RIMAC Arena. ![]() ![]() Maya Angelou, who died today at her home in North Carolina, visited San Diego several times over the years, drawing sold-out crowds for readings at area colleges.
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