Taylor Mali (born 28 March 1965) is an American slam poet and voiceover artist. He has been on seven National Poetry Slam teams; six appeared on the finals stage and four won the competition. Mali is the author of What Learning Leaves and has recorded four CDs: The Difference Between Left and Wrong (1995), Poems from the Like Free Zone (2000), Conviction (2003), and Icarus Airlines (2007). He appeared in Taylor Mali & Friends Live at the Bowery Poetry Club and the documentaries "SlamNation" and "Slam Planet", as well as "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry". He won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 U. S. Comedy Arts Festival for his one-man show "Teacher! Teacher!" and the Golde Earphone award for narrating The Great Fire. is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience. ... The National Poetry Slam (NPS) is a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and France participate in a large-scale poetry slam. ... Bowery Poetry Club. ...

His mother was the children's book author Jane L. Mali, a recipient of the American Book Award. The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. ...

He worked at a prestigious Upper East Side all boys school, Browning School The Browning School was founded as a college preparatory school for boys in 1888 by John A. Browning. ...

He has performed with Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg, and is the former president of Poetry Slam Incorporated. William A. (Billy) Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2001 to 2003. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. ...

Mali attended the Collegiate School for Boys in New York and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Bowdoin College in Maine and Kansas State University. Additionally, he studied drama with the Royal Shakespeare Academy at Oxford. He taught in the classroom for nine years, and in 2000 he set out to create 1,000 new teachers through "poetry, persuasion, perseverance, or passion." As of November 26, 2007, there are 192. Bowdoin College, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. ... Kansas State University, officially called Kansas State University of Fashion and Design [2] but commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States. ...

External links

• Taylor Mali
• Quest for 1,000 Teachers
• VIDEO - Taylor Mali's "Like You Know" Speech
• VIDEO - Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" Speech
• VIDEO - Taylor Mali's "The the impotence of Proofreading" Speech

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