1973, Evans produced, wrote, and directed The Black Experience, a weekly television program for WTTV in Indianapolis. Later, she explained that the program was her attempt to represent African Americans to themselves. In 1975 Evans received an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from Marian College. She continued her teaching career at Purdue University (1978–80), Washington University in St. Louis (1980), Cornell University (1981–85), the State University of New York at Albany (1985–86), and Spelman College. Writing Although her most renowned collection of poetry, I Am a Black Woman (1970), and many of her early poems preceded the Black Arts Movement, these works coincided with the Black Arts poets' messages of black cultural, psychological, and economic liberation. Themes of love, loss, loneliness, struggle, pride, and resistance are common in Evans's poetry. She also used "imagery, metaphor, and rhetoric" to describe the African American experience, the focus of her literary work, and explained that "when I write, I write according to the title of poetry Margaret Walker's classic: 'for my people'." Evans's writing focused primarily of the issues of race and identity. Her poems frequently featured African American women. She also became "known for her intensity and no-nonsense candor." Although her first poetry collection, Where is All the Music?, did not attract critical acclaim, her second poetry collection, I Am a Black Woman (1970), brought her international attention and notoriety. This second collection called for social change and included her best-known individual poem, "I Am a Black Woman." Evans's other memorable poems include: "Celebration," "If There be Sorrow," "Speak the Truth to the People," "When in Rome," and "The Rebel," among others. Her later works included poetry collections, Nightstar 1973–1978 (1981), considered one of her best poetry collections, and A Dark and Splendid Mass (1992). In her later work, Evans began to use experimental techniques and incorporate African American idioms in ways that encouraged readers to identify with and respect the speaker. Her poems were also characterized as "realistic," "hopeful," "sometimes ironic," and enthusiastic. In her poem, "Who Can Be Born Black," she concludes with the lines: "Who/ can be born/ black/ and not exhult!" In addition, Evans spoke of the need to make Blackness both beautiful and powerful. In her poem "I am a Black Woman", the final stanza reads: "I am a black woman/ tall as a cypress/ strong/ beyond all definition still/ defying place/ and time/ and circumstance/