by Tracie Morris

oppressive June heat
whirrs near a window
lower helicopter


© 2020 Tracie Morris

Bio: Tracie Morris is writer/editor of 7 books and is a poet, professor, vocalist, voice teacher and theorist. She holds an MFA in poetry from CUNY Hunter College, a PhD from NYU, and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She became an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist in 2018 was the 2018-2019 WPR Fellow at Harvard University. Tracie is currently the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.