Patrick Anderson Jr., Author at The Jitney

Right Time: Music As My Protest

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |November 5, 2025November 5, 2025

I grew up reading a lot. Not just because I wanted to, but also out […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |October 20, 2025October 6, 2025

Heat shimmered over half-buried subdivisions like an oil spill, rows of rooftops melted into their […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |October 1, 2025September 26, 2025

November 17, 2002 Miami, FL As soon as Melly answers her cell phone, I know […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |August 15, 2025August 15, 2025

It started for me with a hiss and a shriek, our dial-up modem screaming like […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |July 11, 2025July 4, 2025

I was making coffee the other morning while listening to a physics podcast, when the […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |December 13, 2024April 8, 2025

There’s a single incident that motivates a lot of my new album, Better Days. Senior […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |November 29, 2024March 24, 2025

“…The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period […]

ByPatrick Anderson Jr. |September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

My job as a creative writing professor at Miami Dade College is to help students […]