What Learning Leaves
by Taylor Mali
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Pub Date Apr 01 2013 | Archive Date Jun 12 2013
Description
YouTube search “What Teachers Make” and witness almost 5 million views. It’s not a video about teacher’s salaries; it’s a poem performed by New York City poet and four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali, the world’s most popular, passionate teacher turned full-time poet. His new spring release, What Learning Leaves, is an eloquent and entertaining poetry collection centering on his experiences as a middle school teacher.
What Learning Leaves is Mali’s second poetry collection published with Write Bloody Publishing. His first, The Last Time as We Are sold over 10,000 copies. And, Mali, like any writer worth their salt, is getting better with age. His words don’t just stick, they reverberate.
“Words have power. Not like engines, like atoms.”
from “The Wisest Woman in the eighth grade,” What Learning Leaves
“Those who don’t know poetry will be doomed to repeat it.”
from “Poet teaching math and history,” What Learning Leaves
“We need words to hold us, and the world to behold us for us to truly know our souls.”
from “Reading Allowed,” The Last Time as We Are
Every bit of What Learning Leaves is built with purpose and punch; there is nothing like a writer who is fully aware of exactly how powerful he is and uses his power for good. Mali’s so powerful, so persuasive; in 2012 he convinced 1000 people to become teachers and in response donated 12 inches of his hair to the American Cancer Society.
Advance Praise
Praise for Taylor Mali
“Taylor Mali is a ranting comic showman and literary provocateur…”
— The New York Times
“Mali has a smug arrogance similar to Dennis Miller’s, but his loquacious logic reveals Miller for the intellectual flyweight he is.”
— — Detroit Free Press
“… Taylor Mali … is a man of unique properties. He is tagged as a performance poet, but his performances, rather than being frontal assaults, are leavened by charm and wit and … survive happily on the page.”
— Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of United States from 2001 to 2003
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781938912269 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
