Tracie Morris

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, and eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team. She competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam held that year in San Francisco along with her Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Hal Sirowitz and Regie Cabico.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). "Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam." New York City: Soft Skull Press. "Chapter 14: First and Always; Graduates from the NYC Poetry Slam's First Wave" ISBN 1-933-36882-9.] .

Soon after, she began touring with other "slam poets" around the country and abroad, including Maggie Estep, Dael Orlandersmith, Mike Tyler and Paul Beatty and performed her work on MTV's "Spoken Word: Unplugged"http://www.tv.com/mtv-unplugged/show/3400/episode_guide.html&printable=1 | MTV's "Unplugged" series Episode Guide] . 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. Her work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennialhttp://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/artists.html | 2002 Whitney Biennial List of Artists] . 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

References

*"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

External links

* [http://www.tracieswebsite.net Personal website]
* http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_literature/v047/47.3hume.html
* http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/7/poetry/truth-be-told
* http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/social_text/v020/20.2morris.pdf
* http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Morris.html
* http://poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/journals/03.27.06.html
* http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/07/tracie-morris-is-multidisciplinary.html
* http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-30-8
* http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blmp3051601.htm
* http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4D71230F93BA25751C1A96F958260