Not Again Podcast Episode 141 - Taylor Mali ft Stephanie Dogfoot

Not Again Podcast

Hey guys! This week, I had a wonderful chat with renown poet Taylor Mali, whose work I’ve admired for years and I’m very honoured to converse with. In this episode, featuring poet and stand up comic Stephanie Dogfoot, Taylor reads some of his most popular poetry: What Teachers Make, Like Lilly, Like Wilson, The Naked Gardener and Depression Too, Is A Type of Fire. He gives us an insight into the real events and people that inspired the different works.

We discuss how What Teachers Make gained its popularity and introduced many new fans to his works since the introduction of Youtube. He shares the concept of flawed authority in his poems, how they are reflected differently in each work and what he thinks a good poem is. He opens up about his ex-wives and the poems relating to them, love poems and how they change with context and how performance affects his poetry.

He brings up past traumatic events such as 9/11, sharing subjects that he doesn’t like to write about and why. He shares his experience of the beginning of poetry slam, how it's changed over the years and the difference between a page poet and performance poetry. He talks about his metaphor dice and how he created it in order to help poets and students alike to rethink metaphor and improve their writing.

Check out his website at taylormali.com

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