Taalam Acey has published a novel, a comprehensive collection of poems, an award winning memoir and 11 Spoken Word CDs. He has been a full time traveling poet since 1999. Tens of thousands of people own his work and hundreds of thousands have watched him live or via television and the internet. Acey performs regularly in more than 50 cities in the US and abroad. On average, he is on a plane once every 3.5 days. That's 100 flights per year to promote Spoken Word.
Taalam's work has been featured on BET, TV One and in Essence Magazine. Acey was the first person ever selected as "the 1 thing you need to know about" on BET's countdown show, "The 5ive." Acey sat on the Congressional Black Caucus' 2007 & 2008 "Young Gifted and Black" panels. He has been a frequent guest at dozens of colleges and Universities and has lectured on contemporary Spoken Word at the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Acey has twice been featured at the Essence Music Festival. He's been quoted in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Weekly and the New Jersey Star Ledger. In addition, Acey's work has been associated with films that have garnered an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Taalam is also an accomplished slam poet who has won slams throughout the United States as well as in Germany and England. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London documentary on slam and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey's work as an example of slam poetry in his definitive book.
FILM CREDITS
·When The Smoke Clears (2001)
(himself)
2002 Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award nominee
·Crack The CIA (2001)
(narrator)
2005 Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award Winner
·True Lies (2006)
(himself)
2006 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize Winner
·What Black Men Think (2007) (himself) 2007 "Best Black Documentary" African American Film Critics Association
TELEVISION CREDITS
·BET
The 5ive (2007) -3 episodes
Teen Summit (2002) -1 episode
·TVOne
American Blackout (2007)
Here is a list of schools that have hosted Taalam. To add your school to the list contact your SGA or an organization on your campus and have them email artcarter44@aol.com
Alfred University (Alfred, NY), Amherst University (Amherst, MA) ,Baltimore City Community College (Baltimore, MD), Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo, CA), California State University (San Bernadino, CA), California State University (Sacramento, CA), Cheyney University (Cheyney, PA), Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA), Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado), Coppin State University (Baltimore, MD), Drew University (Madison, NJ), Edward Waters College (Jacksonville, FL), El Centro College (Dallas, TX), Essex County College (Newark, NJ), Howard University (Washington DC), Hunter College (New York, NY), J. Sargeant Reynolds College (Richmond, VA), Johnson & Wales University (Miami, FL), Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY), Marymount University (Arlington, VA), Maryville College (Maryville, TN), Mercy College (Dobb's Ferry, NY), Messiah College (Grantham, PA), Milwaukee Area Technical College (Milwaukee, WI), Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI), New York University (New York, NY), Penn State University (University Park, PA), Rhode Island College (Providence, RI), Rider University (Lawrenceville, NJ), Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL), Rutgers University, Busch (Piscataway, NJ), Rutgers University, Camden (Camden, NJ), Rutgers University, NCAS (Newark, NJ), Sacramento City College (Sacramento, CA), State University of New York at Albany (Albany, NY), State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY), Union County College (Union, NJ), University of California (Santa Cruz, CA), University of California (Berkeley, CA), University of Delaware (Newark, DE), University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), University of Illinois (Chicago, IL), University of Maryland (College Park, MD), University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN), University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK), University of Redlands (Redlands, CA), University of Southern California (LA, CA), University of Texas (Austin TX) ,University of Texas (Dallas, TX) ,University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI), William Paterson University (Wayne, NJ), Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
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