Tracie Morris

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Tracie Morris is an American poet and academic originally from Brooklyn, New York. Morris emerged as a performer and writer from the Lower East Side poetry scene in the early 1990s. She became known as a local performer in the "slam" scene located in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, New York. She began touring with other "slam poets" around the country including Maggie Estep, Dael Orlandersmith, Mike Tyler and Paul Beatty and abroad. She was also performing with music from the outset of her poetry career -- collaborating with musicians she met through the Black Rock Coalition, an organization that she was affiliated with from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. Morris is now known as a sound artist and sound poet and as an occasional theatrical performer. Morris has taught in several institutions of higher education and is the 2007-2008 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Featured recordings with Elliott Sharp: Terraplane: Forgery, Terraplane: Secret Life, Radio-Hyper-Yahoo,

Books: Intermission, 1998, Soft Skull Press Chap-T-Her Won, 1993, TM Ink

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  • The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies by Tessa Kale
  • Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Maureen Mahon
  • The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class by Gary Lenhart
  • Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies by Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America by Ed Morales, St. Martin's Press: 2003
  • Production Notebooks Volume 2 by Mark Bly
  • Geography: Art/race/exile by Ralph Lemon and Ann Daly
  • Listen Up! by Zoe Angelsey
  • Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution by Tristan Taormino, Karen Green, and Ann Magnuson
  • Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Mex Glazner

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