POETRY
Lines in the Shed
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Tender Bottoms (Auntie Press) 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.
New Poems
“Oncoming” in Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Issue 19, 2024
“Nessun Dorma” and “I Don’t Want this Country To Reopen. I Want this Country To” in Twin Bird Review, Issue 2.1, Summer 2024
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Passing Affliction, unpublished manuscript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.