The Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation in conjunction with Broward College and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is fortunate to bring performance poet Taylor Mali to  South Florida for one night only. On Nov 29, Mali, one of the most well-known poetry slam poets, will take the stage at Broward College. Read on for details…

Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world, and his New Teacher Project has a goal of creating 1,000 new teachers through “poetry, persuasion, and perseverance.”

He is the author of two books of poetry, The Last Time As We Are (Write Bloody Books 2009) and What Learning Leaves (Hanover 2002), and four CDs of spoken word. He received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop Teacher! Teacher! a one-man show about poetry, teaching, and math which won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 Comedy Arts Festival.

Formerly president of Poetry Slam, Inc., the non-profit organization that oversees all poetry slams in North America, Taylor Mali makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist these days, traveling around the country performing and teaching workshops as well as doing occasional commercial voiceover work. He has narrated several books on tape, including The Great Fire (for which he won the Golden Earphones Award for children’s narration).

Taylor Mali will command the stage on November 29, 2010, in the Performing Arts Theater at the south campus of Broward College, 7200 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines, FL.  7:30 p.m.  Call 954-201-8873 for more information.