 travis tate is a queer, black playwright, poet and performer from Austin, Texas. Their poetry has appeared in Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review, Underblong, Mr. Ma’am, apt, and Cosmonaut Avenue among other journals. Their debut poetry collection, MAIDEN, was published on Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in June 2020. The world premiere of Queen of The Night was produced at Dorset Theatre Festival this August and will have another production at Victory Gardens Theatre in Feb 2022. They earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. You can find more about them at travisltate.com. MORE BEAUTY
after Andre Leon Talley quiet sleep is sought after but not necessarily needed-- neither, is needed, the birth of small flowers in a meadow or god’s request for rain, sky throwing its mirth in our faces like when your good friend has good news & good news is good news & this is how we profess our love for one another there are citadels of joy: a list of simple things that ache with undemanding sentimentality, for a reminder that the weeded garden often is still beautiful. & we call for more beauty, not to satisfy some need for consumption but to watch your eyes grow when you realize the wealth of worldly pleasure is, duh, in the eye of beholder, held for many moments until it blends into the next. More beauty! Look, the leaves sweeping the cement, riddle with weak trash.
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