POETRY
Tender Bottoms, explores the pleasures and anxieties of contemporary gay domestic life—the vicissitudes of romantic attachment, aging, fucking, social accountability, politics, and the reliance on life-sustaining pharmaceuticals—refracted in an homage to Gertrude Stein. Complimented by original full-color photographs, the poems hew to and depart from Stein’s compositional style, finding something new to value in her poetic innovations while also asking for something more, not just from Stein, but from the present moment. In poems that range from the limpid to the ornate, the aphasic to the prosaic, a wry map of pleasure and presentiment emerges between the repetition of nightly television watching, the daily ingestion of antiretroviral pills, and the consoling routine of loading and unloading a dishwasher. This emotionally vulnerable yet unapologetic debut shows Tracy painting a finely wrought and accessible portrait of what Stein called “the bottom nature” of modern life.
TO BE RELEASED IN SPRING 2022 BY AUNTIE PRESS
Selections published inThe New Engagement
FICTION
“High Desert”, PANK, Issue 14
Nominated for the 2019-2020 Pushcart Prize
Passing Affliction, unpublished manuscript
When a sudden stomach upset leaves him with a chronic itch, Brad Joy’s Pottery Barn-perfect life in upstate New York is thrown irrevocably off kilter. Struggling to cope, Brad falls further and further down the rabbit hole of self-obsession until he meets Ian, a flamboyant ex-modern dancer who offers Brad an opportunity to transform his pain into pleasure.
An excerpt of Passing Affliction has been published on KGB Bar Lit.
CULTURE
Queering the Scandal in Shakespeare's Sonnets
BAM Blog
Robert Wilson and Rufus Wainwright’s musical staging of carefully selected Shakespeare sonnets offers a queer reading on multiple levels. By voicing the sonnets across a ribald coterie of characters, and thus, scrambling the possibilities for potential targets of their amorous desires, new constellations of attraction, longing, and loss are charted and memorialized.
Whatever Happened to New York City Opera
The American Reader
One thing that seems to have slipped through all the hoi polloi is that in the precarious window between Gerard Mortier’s resignation and the board’s appointment of George Steel, I was leading a guerrilla campaign to take over the New York City Opera.
Feeling Self-ish
Culturebot
I hadn’t drawn any obvious connections between the work that Todd Shalom and Niegel Smith were putting together and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s densely threaded critical writing. Not, that is, until the night of the Elastic CIty walk, when Todd and Niegel pointedly turned the subject of the walk to shame.
The Fall of the House of Whimsy
Performa Magazine
The Fall of The House of Whimsy is a rich and haunting exhibition of artifacts, media and ephemera from Justin Vivian Bond’s soon-to-be-demolished Second Avenue apartment in New York. Everything in this exhibition is inviting, everything suggests, and everything is imbued with V’s whimsically defiant queer sensibility.