For all of my teachers...

This is a random find and a random post dedicated to all of the good teachers I had growing up. This man's name is Taylor Mali and you are about to see him perform his poem "What Teachers Make" on HBO's Def Poetry. Interesting story about this poem. It got randomly circulated on the internet, attributed to no one, became anonymous, was used by Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist in his Yale graduation speech in 2003, National Public Radio did a story about the adventures of the poem in 2004...so it's been around. Below, you get to watch the author read it like it should be read. Enjoy.