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Tracie Morris
Readings and Conversations at WPS1, Clocktower Studio, New York
Program One: Reading/Performance
- Discussion of first two poems (0:32): MP3
- Premie: Baby Girl Morris 2 lbs. 0 oz. (1:08): MP3
- Heroine (0:59)MP3
- Discussion of next two poems (0:19): MP3
- There's Traces (1:20): MP3
- Physical Plane (1:09): MP3
- Discussion of Vertical (0:32): MP3
- Vertical (0:50): MP3
- Discussion of Sound Poetry (1:07): MP3
- My Great Grand Aunt Meets a Bush Supporter (2:01): MP3
- Discussion of Petro (0:43): MP3
- Petro (1:34): MP3
- Discussion of narrative poetry (0:58): MP3
- "What the sister brother ..." (1:12): MP3
- Discussion of previous poem and Seeing an Ex-Lover in a Public Place (2:10): MP3
- Seeing an Ex-Lover in a Public Place (0:37): MP3
- Discussion of poems written for experimental theater (1:25): MP3
- Afro-Futurism (1:50): MP3
- Discussion of Afro-Futurism and Mother Earth (0:49): MP3
- Mother Earth (0:44): MP3
- Discussion of Project Princess (0:38): MP3
- Project Princess (1:25): MP3
Complete program (25:39): MP3
Program Two: Conversation
- Introduction (1:06): MP3
- On where the poem exists (1:58): MP3
- On composing sound poems (5:17): MP3
- On living performatively (4:30): MP3
- On the connection between artistic and political acting (2:05): MP3
- On the effectiveness of art in transforming society (3:01): MP3
- On being from Brooklyn (2:28): MP3
- On performing in slam (3:04): MP3
- On influences, immediate company, and historical materials (4:38): MP3
Complete conversation (28:10): MP3
Studio engineer: Darrell McNeill
PoemTalk #159, Discussing bpNichol's "Dada Lama" and "A Small Song That Is His," feat. Tracie Morris, Douglas Kearney, and Derek Beaulieu
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PoemTalk #142, Discussing Charles Bernstein's "As If the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold Of Us," feat. Tracie Morris, Danny Snelson, and Marjorie Perloff
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PoemTalk #118, Discussing M. NourbeSe Philip's "Zong!", feat. Alexandria Johnson, Tracie Morris, and Amber Rose Johnson
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PoemTalk #108, Discussing Tracie Morris' "Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful," feat. Camara Brown, Edwin Torres, and Brooke O'Harra
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PoemTalk #75, Discussing Will Alexander's "Compound Hibernation"
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PoemTalk #39, Discussing Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "Truth"
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PoemTalk #6, Discussing a Jaap Blonk sound poem
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Performing with Tongo Eisen-Martin, Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY, September 22, 2023
External Mirror: Vimeo
Invisible Man on a Station in the Metro, Wexler Studio, May 11, 2023
Complete Recording (02:43): MP3
Morris and Charles Bernstein read an excerpt from their collaboration "Omnipresence"
for the Elliot Bay Bookstore launch of the new issue of Conjunctions (1/21/22): MP4
Recording in Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, 2017
Resonate/Ursonate (41:14): MP3
Morris's "Resonatae," 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
Vocarium Reading Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 2, 2017
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Also featuring Douglas Kearney.
Reading with Paolo Javier at the Lévy Gorvy Gallery for the launch of Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology, April 20, 2017
Complete recording (49:16): MP3
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Segmented video from this recording is available at Jacket2.org.
The text of Morris's "Enclosed," an engagement with Gertrude Stein, has been published in
handholding: 5 kinds (2016). The excerpt Morris read in honor of William J. Harris is
available here: PDF.
WHAT I SAY Anthology Reading for the 2016 National Black Writers Conference at AWP, Brooklyn, NY, March 31, 2016
Reading by Tracie Morris (11:03): MP3
Complete reading (1:54:16): MP3
Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, October 13, 2015
Full recording available here.
- Intro by Charles Bernstein (3:10): MP3
- New poems (20:55): MP3
- Re-Sonate (after Kurt Schwitters) (excerpt) (4:38): MP3
- Improvisations (3:45): MP3
- Coda to "My Great Grand Aunt Meets a Bush Supporter" ("It all started ...") (5:51): MP3
- Complete recording (37:52): MP3
(with Kenneth Goldsmith and Marina Rosenfeld)
- Leopold Senghor's "Speech and Image": An African Traditional of the Surreal (5:23): MP3
- Quotes from Josephine Baker and excerpts from Kurt Schwitters's "Ursonate" (5:37): MP3
- Amiri Baraka, Excerpt of Scene II from Dutchman (with Kenneth Goldsmith) (3:31): MP3
- Bob Kaufman, "O-Jazz-O," "A Terror is More Certain..." and "On" (with Marina Rosenfeld) (10:11): MP3
- Surrealist Game (with Kenneth Goldsmith) (2:14): YouTube
Complete program (57:57): MP3
- Complete reading (4:05): MP3
On stillness, movement and power at the Kelly Writers House, November 14, 2013 (as part of ModPo live webcast) (1:32)
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- Introduction by Al Filreis (10:38): MP3
- Introduction (4:55): MP3
- Blackout 1977 (3:24): MP3
- Crazy Talk (1:00): MP3
- Somniac (0:57): MP3
- Apology to Pangea (1:40): MP3
- Excerpted by Walt D (0:19): MP3
- Untitled (1:23): MP3
- Sean Bell (1:03): MP3
- Myomectomy Psycho Takes a Bow (3:21): MP3
- Breasts in the Bra (1:25): MP3
- Shangol's Wife (0:56): MP3
- Sethe on the Raft (1:21): MP3
- In My Baby Bikini (3:05): MP3
- A Dream Within a Dream (by Edgar Allan Poe) (2:33): MP3
- Katrina Blues (2:11): MP3
- Mahalia Theremin (3:23): MP3
- The Mrs. Gets Her Ass Kicked (7:03): MP3
- Q & A (8:48): MP3
- Complete recording (60:24): MP3
My Great Grandaunt (2:06): MP3
- Complete reading (5:15): MP3
Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, March 28, 2009 - POG Sound
Complete reading (33:44): MP3
- Introduction (3:07): MP3
- Heroine (2:09): MP3
- Hard Kore (1:55): MP3
- The Mrs. Gets Her Ass Kicked (6:01): MP3
- Africa(n) (6:17): MP3
- My Great Grand Aunt Speaks to a Bush Supporter (2:26): MP3
- Coda (1:18): MP3
- Money (10:04): MP3
- Getaway 1928 (4:25): MP3
- Pretty Feet (6:25): MP3
- Petro (4:28): MP3
- A Dream Within A Dream (by Edgar Allan Poe) (4:13): MP3
Complete reading (53:06): MP3
- Get It, Got It (a collaboration with Elliott Sharp) (2:52): MP3
- from "Gallery" (1:15): MP3
- from "Truth Be Told" (1:48): MP3
Complete recording (28:05): MP3
Tracie Morris reading Conceptual Poetry & Its
Others at the Poetry Center
University of Arizona, May 29 - 31, 2008
For a segmented video of Morris's solo performance, click here.
"Truth Be Told," collaboration performed with Charles
Bernstein (11:24): MP3, text (from Brooklyn
Rail)
- Chain Gang (2:07): MP3
Friday, October 17, Dystopic Unity (2:11): MP3
Saturday, October 18 (3:29): MP3
Whitney Museum 2002 Biennial Exhibit
- From Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful (3:40): MP3
Vision Festival with DD Jackson, New York, 1997
- "A Little" (3:16): MP3
- "Chain Gang" (4:18): MP3
- "The Mrs. Gets Her Ass Kicked" (3:31): MP3
- Complete Recording (55:39): MP3
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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Tracie Morris.
Used with permission of Tracie Morris. Distributed by PennSound.
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