Question: The American poet, best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences, wrote a poem about what pop icon?

Context articles: Maya Angelou
We Had Him
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Gather Together in My Name
Poetry of Maya Angelou
I Shall Not Be Moved (poetry collection)
And Still I Rise
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies

Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
 She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
 She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
 Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences.
 The first, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
"We Had Him" is a poem about Michael Jackson by Maya Angelou.
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet, Maya Angelou.
 Many of the poems in "Diiie" were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969).
 Angelou considers herself a poet and a playwright, but is best known for her seven autobiographies.
 She began, early in her writing career, of alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
 Although her poetry collections have been best-sellers, they have not received serious critical attention and are more interesting when read aloud.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
 is author and poet Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1983.
 It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written four autobiographies and published three other volumes of poetry up to that point.
 Angelou considers herself a poet and a playwright, but is best known for her seven autobiographies, especially her first," I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", although her poetry has also been successful.
 She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
 Many of the poems in "Shaker "focus on survival despite threatened freedom, lost love, and defeated dreams.
 Over half of them are love poems, and emphasize the inevitable loss of love.
 "Caged Bird", which refers to Angelou's first autobiography, is contained in this volume.
Gather Together in My Name (1974) is a memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.
 It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies.
 The book begins immediately following the events described in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", and follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.
 Written three years after "Caged Bird", the book "depicts a single mother's slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime."
 The title of the book is taken from the Bible, but it also conveys how one black female lived in the white-dominated society of the U.S. following the Second World War.
Maya Angelou, an African-American writer who is best known for her seven autobiographies, was also a prolific and successful poet.
 She has been called "the black woman's poet laureate", and her poems have been called the anthems of African Americans.
 Angelou studied and began writing poetry at a young age, and used poetry and other great literature to cope with trauma, as she described in her first and most well-known autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
 She became a poet after a series of occupations as a young adult, including as a cast member of a European tour of "Porgy and Bess", and a performer of calypso music in nightclubs in the 1950s.
 Many of the songs she wrote during that period later found their way to her later poetry collections.
 She eventually gave up performing for a writing career.
I Shall Not Be Moved is author and poet Maya Angelou's fifth collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1990.
 Angelou had written four autobiographies and published four other volumes of poetry up to that point.
 Angelou considered herself a poet and a playwright and her poetry has also been successful, but she is best known for her seven autobiographies, especially her first," I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
 She began, early in her writing career, of alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
 Most critics agree that Angelou's poems are more interesting when she recites them.
And Still I Rise is author Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978.
 It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written three autobiographies and published two other volumes of poetry up to that point.
 Angelou considered herself a poet and a playwright, but was best known for her seven autobiographies, especially her first," I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", although her poetry has also been successful.
 She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
 Although her poetry collections have been best-sellers, they have not received serious critical attention.
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well is a book of poems by American author Maya Angelou, published by Random House in 1975.
 It is Angelou's second volume of poetry, written after her first two autobiographies and first volume of poetry were published.
 Angelou considers herself a poet and a playwright, but is best known for her seven autobiographies, especially her first, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", although her poetry has also been successful.
 She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
 Although her poetry collections have been best-sellers, they have not received serious critical attention.
The themes encompassing African-American writer Maya Angelou's seven autobiographies include racism, identity, family, and travel.
 Angelou (1928–2014) is best known for her first autobiography, the critically acclaimed "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969).
 The rest of the books in her series are "Gather Together in My Name" (1974), "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" (1976), "The Heart of a Woman" (1981), "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (1986), "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" (2002), and "Mom & Me & Mom" (2013).