Noaa Rienecker and Adam Jones met playing in various bands around Austin. They have been writing poems side by side on the street for the better part of five years. You can often find one or both of them busking on South Congress, or in front of the Driskill on 6th street in the evening.

As the ATPC was formed and started picking up steam, they started hiring other poets and creatives, pulling from a diverse network of artist friends in Texas, California, Louisiana, and beyond.

Our styles of poetry all vary, but the philosophy of the form is the same. Typewriter poetry isn’t about flattery or regurgitating sentimental platitudes. We’d be bored to tears by that and so would you. We’re interested in the particularity of your life and your imagination - and how we can turn that particularity into something interesting, something funny or poignant or thought-provoking or even just profoundly odd. The typewriters are a kind of lightning rod, attracting people that are charged with enough romance and whimsy to take a risk. And it is a risk - who wants to be trapped behind a fake smile while some idiot in a funny hat blandly recites an objectively terrible poem? Nobody, least of all us. If we’re going to wear the funny hats, we’re gonna do our darndest to write you a good poem. All we ask is that you take the risk of putting something of yourself in it.