Taylor Mali
A few weeks ago, one of the youth at church performed Taylor Mali's What Teachers Make. It's made the round on the net before and I'd seen it then, but this time it stuck in my head.
Going back to YouTube to watch it again, I noticed that he has a number of other videos of him performing his poems, and I began to watch them. They vary widely in subject matter. Several are about the joys and sorrows of teaching, others about the suicide of his first wife, others about love and about sex and several meta pieces about poetry itself.
I haven't watched all of them yet, nor delved very deeply into his website, but since I've mentioned his work to several people this weekend, I thought I would provide a few links.
I particularly love Like Lilly Like Wilson and Depression is a Kind of Fire Too and Tony Steinberg, Brave Seventh-Grade Viking Warrior. But I haven't listened to any one of them without finding something to admire in his turn of phrase, his connection of ideas, or his powerful delivery.
Going back to YouTube to watch it again, I noticed that he has a number of other videos of him performing his poems, and I began to watch them. They vary widely in subject matter. Several are about the joys and sorrows of teaching, others about the suicide of his first wife, others about love and about sex and several meta pieces about poetry itself.
I haven't watched all of them yet, nor delved very deeply into his website, but since I've mentioned his work to several people this weekend, I thought I would provide a few links.
I particularly love Like Lilly Like Wilson and Depression is a Kind of Fire Too and Tony Steinberg, Brave Seventh-Grade Viking Warrior. But I haven't listened to any one of them without finding something to admire in his turn of phrase, his connection of ideas, or his powerful delivery.