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G.E Patterson

Early life Patterson is an artist, writer, poet, and more who lives in St. Paul Minnesota. He grew up alongside the Mississippi river and as a young boy had education in the midsouth, the Midwest, The Northeast and Western United States. Patterson is the author of two poetry collections, To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008) and Tug (Graywolf Press, 1999), which won the Minnesota Book Award. Patterson has also won many other poetry awards and honors including the MacDowell Colony, and New York City’s Fund for Poetry. G.E Patterson now teaches in Minnesota after growing up in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

In this research assignment I decided to learn more about the poet G. E Patterson. I chose this writer from Black Nature because of the last research assignment I had done and the lack of information on him. During the first ever search I did on G.E Patterson last week I found nothing on sites I was provided. Now I have found information on G.E Patterson but have found little and not many details about him and his life. This made it challenging for me to really understand him and see who he was before his writings. Every article I found of G.E Patterson concluded awards he has received and work he has done. Articles lack early life, influence he has had, personal life, and etc.. One thing that really surprised me as I read was he now lives in St. Paul where he teaches. I thought this was really cool because that is where I live and I had never heard of him until reading Black Nature by Camille Dungy. The person I chose was a Black writer and I really think this relates to our topic because I couldn’t find more information on him. Cis and trans women, non-binary people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities are not represented well enough on sites like wikipedia. I hope that my contribution on G.E Patterson can help represent him more and give him the recognition he deserves.

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