What Happened to the '83 Dutchmen with poet Taylor Mali

James Navé here. Please welcome Brooklyn-based poet, spoken word artist, and podcaster Taylor Mali to Twice Miles Radio. Taylor and I have known each other since we met at the 1994 National Poetry Slam Championships in Asheville, North Carolina. In this interview, Taylor focuses on his new podcast called '83 Dutchmen, which features long-form interviews with his classmates from the Collegiate School For Boys class of 1983. During the interview, Taylor and I talk about family, education, poetry, and how everyone must try to make sense of their lives with the gifts they were born with. In the final 20 minutes of the show, I discuss the notion that the term "school dropout" can be aspirational rather than derogatory.