Tracey Knapp received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1998, where she was awarded the Raymond Carver Award for Best Group of Poems by an Undergraduate. The Kat Ran Press, an independent rare book printing press, published her first book of poems, Match in a Bottle (1997). This limited edition also included original drawings by artist […]
Tracey Knapp
Tracey Knapp: Divine Head I
A thousand drawings of the same head in film-still sequence: a flip page cartoon. Brow moves lashes lift from a split second shut— maybe: a hand rising to the leaded lips with Gideon’s trumpet playing rose petals falling. Such divinity. Or, just a witnessing of movement, the mastery of musculature, the crescendo of, maybe, a […]
Tracey Knapp: Salamanders
Oh, the little hours of the night we would tiptoe barefoot down the creaky hallway through the porcelain white kitchen, where the moon reflected off each tile Then out onto the patio. The spindly weeds made their way between the silver slabs of slate which we would lift up slowly surrendering the cool skinned salamanders […]