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The Associated Press
Angelou to join Hallmark
NEW YORK — Hallmark:
Birthday cards and wedding cards,
friendship, graduation and get well
messages, too.
Maya Angelou: friend of Billie Holiday and Martin Luther King, celebrated poet who read at President Clinton's first inauguration, author of the classic memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
"It lowers the understanding of what poetry actually can do," said Billy Collins, the poet laureate of the United States and a fellow Random House author. "Hallmark cards has always been a common phrase to describe verse that is really less than poetry because it is sentimental and unoriginal."
fessor-actress-director-singer lives mostly in North Carolina and also has a home in Atlanta.
At first, Angelou was cool to the idea. But after meeting with executives of the Kansas City, Mo.-based company, she warmed.
"I said, 'I'm thinking about doing something with Hallmark.' And he said, 'You're the people's poet. You don't want to trivialize yourself.' So I said OK and I hung up. And then I thought about it. And I thought, if I'm the people's诗 then I ought to be in the people's hands — and I hope in their hearts. So I thought, "Hmm, I'll do it."
Poet to collaborate with K.C. company on line of cards, gifts
Then she went to her editor at Random House with the proposal.
"They were white and black, and they were women and Spanish speaking. That pleased me, obviously. ... So I listened," Angelou said in an interview at her flower-filled upper West Side pied a-terre. The 73-year-old poet-writer-pro
Hallmark would not divulge what it had paid Angelou. However, Paul Barker, senior vice president for creative development at Hallmark, said, "Retailers are very positive about how well it is moving."
And now Hallmark's in-house poet.
At least one of Angelou's colleagues is appalled at the idea.
self, she has agreed to develop a line of greeting cards and gifts.
In a once-unthinkable collaboration, Angelou has teamed up with the greeting card giant Hallmark. Overcoming initial reservations that she was trivializing her
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1 Regarding
5 McKinley and Cantor
9 Ready to swing
4 Wait a minute!
5 Coarse sea weed
6 Actress Shearer
7 Male parent
8 Wicked
19 Heartbreak
20 Unable to act
22 Degradation
24 Movie mouse
24 AOL, e.g.
27 Debtor's letters
29 Education-
minded grp.
32 Fencer's foils
34 Impatient
interjections
36 Total
39 Sleepy's pal
41 Cars
42 Time to be home by
44 Outmoded
46 & so forth
49 Can opener
49 __ humbug!
50 Pitcher's stat
53 Jacketless state
56 Will Hutchins TV
Western
59 Rain on a winter
parade?
60 Angry
61 Authorize
63 Poop
64 __ New Guinea
65 Force unit
66 Doe or stag
67 Snoozed
68 Pop
69 Messes up
DOWN
1 St. Francis'
birthplace
2 Work shifts
3 Ripped
4 Musical drama
5 Likable '50s
candidate?
6 Depreciated
7 Excuse
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02/04/02
8 Flattens on impact
9 McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winner
10 Crooner Mel
11 Soft French cheese
12 Prayer ending
13 Roosevelt follower
21 One who can hit, field and run
23 One of a flight
25 Punter's digit
29 Light touch
30 A pair
31 Nincompoop
32 Pixie
33 Concession
35 Coloration
36 Cool down
37 Pecan or cashew
38 Stretch of a circle
40 Taxi rank
43 Homeless child
43 Actor Mineo
Solutions
48 Ponders moodily
50 More level
51 Sailor's jacket
52 John Jacob and Mary
53 Stopped slouching
54 City on Honshu Island
55 Stur over
56 Mini drinks
57 Caspian feeder
58 Gawk
62 Truly