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Grow Your Vision

Our thoughts, our feelings, our lives...we're all connected through some point in time.

I just hope my words help you through it. 

This Is Where  Pen Meets Life

Read the Musings of My Mind Day or Night

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Welcome to PenMeetsLife, a home for all things about T.A. Jones' writing. Delve into a world of essays, poetry, and thoughts that converge to create captivating narratives and keep you engaged in the beauty of words.

About T.A. Jones

Tyler Auston, T.A., Jones (he/him) is a Black poet/writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Western Carolina University with a bachelor's in English and a minor in Creative Writing. He currently works as a middle school ELA teacher, blogger for Three Panel Press, and hybrid intern editor for Abode Press. Tyler also enjoys playwriting, screenwriting, and poetry. He’s finishing his first poetry compilation, Obsidian Sun, and chapbook, Before & After I Got Help.

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While he continues to educate his students, he is continuously finding himself in others' music and poetry. That has always been his bread and butter, and now it's sustaining him across his journey where his pen meets life. 

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Poems
Music Studio Gear

Music Recs of the Month

the fall that saved us
jones
through the wall
god does like ugly
crysalis

Reader's Voices

Charlie Taylor

"His poetry is delicate, thoughtful and worthy because he invests all of that and more into himself; a testimony ot being human, one word at a time."

Haji Muse

"His voice carries the heart of a true hopeful romantic, making every poem feel warm, vulnerable, and beautifully real."

Rena Dawkins

"In 'Connection to the Ancestors', [you feel] raw, relatable, and moving. [What a] wonderufl way of connecting self with both the past, present, and future."

Cyan Villanueva

"T.A. Jones' work is full of truth, passion, and perserverance. It inspires and makes you feel known."

B. Elae

"Not only is it easy to fall into his work, but it's easy to want to stay there. There's always something to look forward to within his poetry, and it's comforting to be able to resonate with that."

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