[Yale-readings] Performance Poet Taylor Mali at Yale

[Andy Sandberg]

Jonathan Edwards College presents a Master's Tea with...

TAYLOR MALI
Performance Poet

Wednesday, March 24
4:00 PM, JE Master's House, 70 High Street

National Poetry Slam champion, performer on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and an advocate for education reform.

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>From Taylor Mali's website:
"Taylor Mali measures his life in a variety of different ways: He has one
dog and three years of experience as a professional spoken word artist;
one book, three cds; two cancelled passports; he was a national poetry
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."

A poetry slam artist, Taylor Mali's Mission Statement is:
"I want to reform education in America from top to bottom. I want to be
the individual responsible for making an entire generation of college
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
Education Tax if that's what it's going to take. But most of all, I want
to be the spokesman for teachings nobility, the poet laureate of passion in the classroom."

http://www.taylormali.com
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