Street Paper, coming Fall 2026.

Pleased to announce my next book and first poetry chapbook "Street Paper", coming Fall 2026.

"Street Paper is a premiere contemporary poetry chapbook by artist and writer T.P. After a 10 year hiatus from spoken word poetry on stage and print, Street Paper is the thinking individual's ode to the mundane, a love letter to the Midwestern experience, and choice words to onlookers, passersby, and those that sneer at radical zen"

Available June 2026 at commongpress.etsy.com

inkling.

 "Impressions" as my next book and first long form publication is meant to involve and embolden the written word as a healing mechanism for the psyche.

I've taken selected works from my unreleased chapbook "A Negro Sun Sets South" but initially had no intention to publicize any of them. I believe that there should be space in the world and in the studio to be raw, obscene, and furious. Publishing free verse and spoken word becomes an obligation to enchant the reader sometimes. As if I give a fuck to be pleasant at others discretion...hence the title.

...well, here's a pager.