I was reading Zana’s Weblog, and she shows a picture of her interview with Taylor Mali, the teacher-turned-slam-poet. So, intrigued by her worship of Taylor Mali, I hop over to his site, where I find out that his manifest is to create 1,000 new teachers by 2006. Rock on, Mr. Mali.

He has several really amazing pieces of work up on his site, but in honor of Jessie and Zana and Yael and all the Beacon students who have felt the need and found the voice to speak in a declarative voice, I wanted to post this one. I hope you enjoy it. And thanks, Zana.