“Chain Gang” by Tracie Morris
from the 1999 collection of People's Poetry Gathering audio & video clips
      Tracie Morris is the high priestess of rap-inflected sound poetry, former Nuyorican Slam Champ & veteran of The United States of Poetry, whose voice polishes the words to a shine in this recording from the first People's Poetry Gathering.

• Coleman Barks, “Spring Morning”
• Ernie Cline, “Tech Support”
• Emily Dickinson, “I cannot live with You”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player”
• Sylvia Plath, “On the Decline of Oracles”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
• John Powers, “Thayer Street Blues”
• Molly Raynor, “Wings”
• Lizzie Wann, “Patricia Said”