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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Jonathan
Edwards College presents a Master's Tea with...<BR><BR>TAYLOR
MALI<BR>Performance Poet</FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
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<DIV><BR>Wednesday, March 24<BR>4:00 PM, JE Master's House, 70 High Street</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>National Poetry Slam champion, performer on HBO's
Def Poetry Jam, and an advocate for education reform.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>****<BR>From Taylor Mali's website:<BR>"Taylor Mali measures his life
in a variety of different ways: He has one<BR>dog and three years of experience
as a professional spoken word artist;<BR>one book, three cds; two cancelled
passports; he was a national poetry<BR>slam champion four times; twice he
appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam; for nine years he taught college, high school,
and middle school; he once scored 581 in a single SCRABBLE game; and MOST
IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, after hearing his work, 32 people have told him they will
now become teachers."<BR></DIV>
<DIV>A poetry slam artist, Taylor Mali's Mission Statement is:<BR>"I want to
reform education in America from top to bottom. I want to be<BR>the individual
responsible for making an entire generation of college<BR>graduates consider
teaching before business or law school. I want to make it easier for smart,
successful, and qualified people in their 30s and older to become teachers as
well. I want to get America ready for an<BR>Education Tax if that's what it's
going to take. But most of all, I want<BR>to be the spokesman for teachings
nobility, the poet laureate of passion in the classroom."<BR><BR><A
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