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Tracie Morris USA Close Listening -- Readings and Conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, May 22, 2005
WPS1 Reading/Performance
Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1 © 2005 Tracie Morris and Charles Bernstein Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill Re-Sonate/Ursonate (2016) Morris's "Re-Sonate," her improvised collaboration or "handholding" with Ernst Schwitters's recording of Kurt Schwitters's "Ursonate" is part of handholding: 5 Kinds (Kore Press, 2016) and was recorded at the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House. In this two-track recording, Schwitters's recording is aligned with Morris's. Recording engineer: Zach Carduner. Reading with Paolo Javier at the Lévy Gorvy Gallery for the launch of Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology, April 20, 2017 WHAT I SAY Anthology Reading for the 2016 National Black Writers Conference at AWP, Brooklyn, NY, March 31, 2016
Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, October 4, 2014
What Oozed Through the Staircase: A Winter Afternoon of Surrealist Writing and Music Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 26, 2014 (with Kenneth Goldsmith and Marina Rosenfeld)
Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013 (4:05) Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, November 10, 2013 (4:05) Reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, November 14, 2013
MLA Offsite Series Reading in Philadelphia, December 26, 2006 My Great Grandaunt (2:06) From the Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader Launch Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club, September 19, 2009 Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (5:15) Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, March 28, 2009, POG Sound Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center (33:44) Reading for the 3rd Annual Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Program at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, October 28, 2008
Ceptuetics Radio, September 17, 2008
Conceptual Poetry & Its Others at the Poetry Center University of Arizona, May 29 - 31, 2008 "Truth Be Told," collaboration performend with Charles Bernstein (11:24) People's Poetry Gathering, 2006 Chain Gang (2:07) Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics KWH and ICA, UPenn, October 17-18, 2003 Friday, October 17, Dystopic Unity (2:11) Saturday, October 18 (3:29): Whitney Museum 2002 Biennial Exhibit From Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful (3:40) Vision Festival with DD Jackson, New York, 1997
Born in Brooklyn, interdisciplinary poet and sound artist Tracie Morris earned an MFA at Hunter College and a PhD at New York University. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and at Michael Howard Studios. In her poetry, Morris transforms and complicates her subjects of abuse, power, and the body through repetition and accretive adjustments or substitutions, creating an intimate, dynamic space for readers and listeners. In a 2014 interview with Queen GodIs for Creative Capital, Morris states, “For me, sound poetry teases apart the meaning that is embedded with sound and separates that from literal meaning. So what I try to do is pull those things apart and then create a narrative arc from it.” In the essay “Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris,” published in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (2007), Christine Hume observes, “Morris employs the kind of fierce, active repetition that might make even veteran Stein readers dizzy, but she does so with electric phrasing, lightning-fast tonal shifts, an uncanny sense of time, and a stampede of ligatured sounds that provides a literal vocal bridge between musical improvisation and poetry.” Morris’s poetry collections include handholding: 5 kinds (2016), Rhyme Scheme (2012), and Intermission (1998). Her work is featured in numerous anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (2015), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015), and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (2002). With Charles Bernstein, she coedited Best American Experimental Writing (2016). Her sound installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Jamaica Center for Arts &Learning, and other sites. She leads the Tracie Morris Band and is also a lead singer for the group Terraplane. A frequent performer at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the early 1990s, Morris won championships for the Nuyorican Grand Slam and the National Haiku Slam in 1993. She has received numerous additional honors, including grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, and the Asian Cultural Council and residencies at Yaddo and the Millay and MacDowell colonies. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a CPCW poetics fellow, and Pratt Institute, where she is a professor in humanities and media studies. |