Sound 2
Tracie Morris
Tracie Morris (website)
Sound Poet, Singer, Performer, Author
Professor of Performance + Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
We know fantastic world-making through words when we see them. We always make new worlds. We refashion them out of the sounds we said at the beginning of humankind. We make them out of all the atoms of sounds even those spoken to harm us. This is what we do: Out of all these building blocks we wail a world, create joyful noises, the first thing and new things with words.
Tracie Morris, Who Do with Words, 78
“It All Started”
“Too Black”
Doris Day sings “Cheek to Cheek”
“The Mrs. Gets Her Ass Kicked”
Five Blog Posts by Tracie Morris (You’ll need to scroll down to the bottom of the Poetry Foundation webpage to see the five blog posts. Read them in order 1-5.) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tracie-morris
Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on “Serving Her Muse”
Tracie Morris Research & Resources
Hume, Christine. “Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2006, pp. 415–439.
Polimante, Irene. “Tracie Morris’s Poetic Experience: From Slam Poetry to Sound Poetry.” RSA Journal, vol. 29, 2018, pp. 197-217
Ranft, Erin. “The Afrofuturist Poetry of Tracie Morris and Tracy K. Smith.” Journal of Ethnic American Literature, no. 4, 2014, pp. 75-85,125. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/docview/1645366844?accountid=7287.
Carr, C. “On Edge: Afrofuturistic: Poet Tracie Morris Looks Ahead to the Past.” The Village Voice, vol. 48, no. 20, 2003, p. 44.
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