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Taylor Mali is the former president of Poetry Slam Incorporated, and he has performed with such renowned poets as Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg. Although he retired from the National Poetry Slam competition in 2005, [ 11 ] he still helps curate the reading series Page Meets Stage, held monthly at the Bowery Poetry Club .
Missed Aches is a 2009 16mm short 2D animated film directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley.It was narrated by Taylor Mali and is based on his poem “The Impotence of Proofreading”, with sound design by Normand Roger and Pierre Yves Drapeau, music by Pierre Yves Drapeau with Denis Chartrand and Normand Roger, text animation by Brian Kinkley, character design and animation by Don ...
SlamNation is a 1998 documentary film by director Paul Devlin.The film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.. It follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, OR.
Poetry slam opened the door for a generation of writers and spoken word performers, including Alix Olson, Apollo Poetry, Taylor Mali, and Saul Williams, and inspired hundreds of open mics across the U.S. Poetry has become a significant presence on the Web, with a number of new online journals, 'zines, blogs and other websites. An example of the ...
Massa Makan Diabaté (1938–1988), historian, author and playwright. Souéloum Diagho, poet. Aïda Mady Diallo, novelist and director. Aly Diallo, French-language novelist first published in German translation. [1] Alpha Mandé Diarra (1954– ) Oumou Armand Diarra (1967– ), born in Yugoslavia. [2] Doumbi Fakoly (1944– ), non-fiction writer
Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975, England, f) Emily Taylor (1795–1872, England, p/ch) G. P. Taylor (born 1958, England, f) Grace Taylor (born c. 1984, N Zealand, p) Henry Taylor (1800–1886, England, d/p) Henry S. Taylor (born 1942, US, p) Jane Taylor (1783–1824, England, p/f) Janelle Taylor (born 1944, US, f) John Taylor (1578–1653 ...
Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. [1]
Taylor's books include the coauthored Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film (Newmarket Press, 1995). Her second book was the biography The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey written and published in North Carolina by the University of North Carolina Press in August, 2002.