Tracie Morris

Close Listening -- readings and conversations at WPS1.Org
Clocktower Studio, New York, May 22, 2005

Tracie Morris in conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:10)

WPS1 Reading/Performance
Entire Reading/Performance (25:39)
Singles:
1. Discussion of first two poems (0:32)
2. Premie: Baby Girl Morris 2 lbs. 0 oz. (1:08)
3. Heroine (0:59)
4. Discussion of next two poems (0:19)
5. There's Traces (1:20)
6. Physical Plane (1:09)
7. Discussion of Vertical (0:32)
8. Vertical (0:50)
9. Discussion of Sound Poetry (1:07)
10. My Great Grand Aunt Meets a Bush Supporter (2:01)
11. Discussion of Petro (0:43)
12. Petro (1:34)
13. Discussion of narrative poetry (0:58)
14. "What the sister brother ..." (1:12)
15. Discussion of previous poem and Seeing an Ex-Lover in a Public Place (2:10)
16. Seeing an Ex-Lover in a Public Place (0:37)
17. Discussion of poems written for experimental theater (1:25)
18. Afro-Futurism (1:50)
19. Discussion of Afro-Futurism and Mother Earth (0:49)
20. Mother Earth (0:44)
21. Discussion of Project Princess (0:38)
22. Project Princess (1:25)

Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1
© 2005 Tracie Morris and Charles Bernstein
Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill

From Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful (3:40): MP3
(Whitney Museum 2002 Biennial Exhibit)

Related resource:
hear Chain Gang (2:07) at the People's Poetry Gathering site

Morris appears as a panelist on PoemTalk #6 on Jaap Blonk's "What the President Will Say and Do"

Full Video of Morris reading for Conceptual Poetry & Its Others
at the Poetry Center, University of Arizona, May 29-31, 2008

Including:
"It all started..." (2:07): MP3