tPoetics Lab Directors
Meet Christina: MO Intern
Do not let the people around you stop you from finding the factors in your life that will guide you to a future where you are truly happy.
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tPoetics Lab Directors
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Meet Jacqueline: M.O. Intern
Not every story I write is perfect—in fact, I can’t think of one that is. But when I write about things that matter to me, the work matters
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tPoetics Lab Directors
- Mar 9, 2021
- 0 min
The Gift of The Gab
We at tPL are very excited to introduce the first edition of our newsletter: The Gift of the Gab!
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nataligi
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Dylan Gilbert
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.
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tPoetics Lab Directors
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Natalie Gilbert
"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...
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Armando R. Otero
"...From writing mock haikus to rehearsing in the YES space in Ypsilanti, club meetings were an unpredictable joyride..."
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 17, 2021
- 2 min
MaKenzee Van Buren
"...what has always remained with me is viewing performing poetry as a means of connection and unapologetic expression..."
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
Meghana Mulpuri
"writing is not about perfection but rather about progression..."
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tPoetics Lab Directors
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
I Once Cried Because A Pygmy Sloth Couldn't Find Love
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...
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
Kailyn Bondoni
"...That sharing of creative liberty and use of tone, metaphor, voice, and structure really impacted how I learned to write my own..."
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Teegan Birch
"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."
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tpoeticslab
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Silas Bastow
"... [we were] asked captivating questions, expanding our knowledge and improving upon identifying the importance of context in a story..."
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tpoeticslab
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
Lizzie Y
"...Domo helped me understand poetry as something honest, something simultaneously institutionally rigid and fantastically free..."
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tPoetics Lab Directors
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
Just a small-town Gay with lots to Say: Mitchel's Story
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.
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tpoeticslab
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Alejandro Derieux-Cerezo
"...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..."
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