We at tPL are very excited to introduce the first edition of our newsletter: The Gift of the Gab!

Poetry club was my moment of relief and my favorite part of the week. It was a space where I could write, read, and just sit in the comfort.

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison As a child I did not...

"...From writing mock haikus to rehearsing in the YES space in Ypsilanti, club meetings were an unpredictable joyride..."

"...what has always remained with me is viewing performing poetry as a means of connection and unapologetic expression..."

"writing is not about perfection but rather about progression..."

I really like sloths. A lot. I am from the generation of kids who had the orange Rugrats VHS tape and still have no idea how the blank...

"...That sharing of creative liberty and use of tone, metaphor, voice, and structure really impacted how I learned to write my own..."

"As an out bisexual man I aspire to gain just a fraction of how he carries himself ... it shows to me that representation truly matters."

"... [we were] asked captivating questions, expanding our knowledge and improving upon identifying the importance of context in a story..."

"...Domo helped me understand poetry as something honest, something simultaneously institutionally rigid and fantastically free..."

Mitchel Dipzinski is one of the founding figures of tPL. Here, he hopes to tell some of his story and inspire others to do the same.

"...easy going or dead serious, but they fell right in the valley of the two extremes, bringing a human feeling to all our work together..."