L. P. Patterson Writer | Educator leeppatterson@gmail.com
UC Irvine
Recent and Forthcoming Work
Criticism
"Double Consciousness and its Return: Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman," W.E.B. DuBois and Catharsis' Double" (print & online)
published in Vol. 3 - 2021 of Comunicazioni Sociali, Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies
"Surrealist Aftershocks: Artaud, Freud, and Mirrors of the Surreal Schism" (online)
published in Vol. 3, No. 4 of Ephemera Journal of Theatre and Performance Studies
"Kevin Davies and the Immanency in the Statement: Interpellation's Links in Literature and Society" (online)
published in Vol. 6(2), pp. 70-76 of Linguistics and Literature Studies
Poetry
"Sestina for Disinheritance" (online)
published in LIT Magazine #35 Fall 2023
"Leaving Home" (online)
published in The Hyacinth Review Fall 2023
The Stupid Miracle (chapbook)
(semi-finalist for Baltic Writing Residencies' 2022 Chapbook Contest)
"Airing the Lanterns" (print & online)
published in Ponder Review Vol. 5 Issue 2 (pg. 24-25)
"One Likes to Practice the Thing" (print & online)
published in Foothill Poetry Journal Vol. 6 No.1 (pg. 38-39)
"Sallace Wevens" (print & online)
published in the Florida English Journal Vol. 51 No. 1 (pg. 21)
"After Rimbaud" (online)
published in F(r)iction
(finalist for Brink Literacy Project’s Fall 2015 Writing Contest)
"Where Are There Palm Trees in Eastern Standard Time" (print)
published in A.C. Papa No.1 (pg. 27)
"Corra's Waiting Around the Tundra" (print)
published in Passages: An Anthology of New Poetry
"Stiltsville" (print)
published in Florida Speaks: A Poet Plant Press Anthology
"Reflecting Hurricanes" (print & online)
published in West 10th No. 1 (pg. 86)
"Dreams" (print)
published in The Columbia Review
Plays
Second Wind
(finalist for Baltic Writing Residencies' Bernheim Forest Residency)
The Actors
The Garden
Manuscripts
Criticism
The Double in the Modern Mirror: Reflecting 20th Century Drama in Artaudian Images of Thought
A scholarly work that appeals to the critical lenses of Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction to contribute understandings of Antonin Artaud’s hybrid work of theory, The Theater and Its Double. This monograph, in its range of inquiry, analyzes theories of the self and its narrative-making, the self and the instability of memory, and the self and its capacity to express truths through the performance that is writing via examination of numerous works on Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction as well as several Modern and Contemporary playwrights.
Poetry
The Stupid Miracle
This book-length poem consists of linked prose-poem units divided into four thematic sections that examine, through a network of modern and contemporary allusions and imagery, the problems of memory and identity in the aftermath of both personal trauma and the societal upheavals of the 21st Century.
