Tauwan Patterson
art dealer chic
after mark bradford
drippings like the light of some neon signs,
all this stuff walks into the room: Black,
Queer, Man. himself a work
of art.
racial kitsch: Foxy,
Brown, "SUPER FLY",
Shaft.
a main character
not ridiculed, not
beat up. no
punk, no
failure.
Bio
Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is a Black + Queer Poet and recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has recently appeared in the inaugural edition of the online literary magazine Cool Beans Lit and 3rd Wednesday Magazine, and will also appear in the forthcoming Moonstone Arts Center anthology Which Side Are You On?!, the Winter Issue of Rise Up Review, Porkbelly Press' Love Me, Love My Belly zine, and the Rising Phoenix Review. With his poetry Tauwan aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.