Anique Taylor Art

Anique Taylor is a gifted visual artist and multi-faceted writer. She ran away to Paris, where she studied literature (Sorbonne, Diplome); afterward, she graduated high school (Greenwich), studied literature (Antioch College) and then taught creative writing to Jr. High Students on a co-op job, Angeles Crest Mountains. Taylor studied art – Silvermine College (AFA) Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, (BFA Highest Honors) and Pratt Graduate School (MFA). Taylor also studied at St. Mark’s Poetry Project with Alice Notely, Bernadette Mayer and Susie Timmons, subsequently she gave featured readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Dixon Place, Speakeasy, ABC No Rio, Cedar Tavern and performed regularly with Eve Packer’s What Happens Next, in group readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Tompkin’s Square Arts Festival, New Romantics, Charas, Knitting Factory, Bergen County Literary Salon, Ridgewood Library and Phoenicia Phirst Phriday. With Etan Ben-Ami, Taylor edited the much-acclaimed (& short-lived) poetry magazine, The Cheap Review of Poetry, publishing several wonderful poets, such as Alice Notley, Bill Kushner, Elinor Nauen, Sheila Alson, Norman MacAfee, Peter Bushyeager, Tom Savage and Bernadette Mayer. Taylor created a children’s show, performing as Pirouette-the-Clown in & around NYC, Bergen County. Her chapbook poems are published by Unimproved Editions Press. Additionally, her poems have been published in The World, Sing O Heavenly Muse, Cheap Review, Big Fish, Southern Review, Cover Magazine, Pome, What Happens Next and The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side. As well as literary writing, Taylor has many co-authored books such as the Computer Joke Book, (Hayden), What to Do When You’re Bored, (Simon & Schuster), Snakes!, Bears! (EMC), How Many Nerds Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?, Book of Silly Quizzes, (Scholastic), Nightmare Nina (Bowmar/Noble) and the filmstrips, Arachne & Athena, Atalanta, Prometheus & Pandora, (January Productions). Taylor also co-authored ABZ’s of Sex & Love (HBO), Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned, produced by Playwright’s Horizons, Phoenix Theatre, Williamstown Playhouse. She has also performed with the comedy group Raw Guts & American Know-How.