Trace DePass
author of BOOTless →
Dearest June - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Dearest June - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Dearest June - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Reflections on the early teaching diaries of June Jordan.
Writing a Contrapuntal Poem - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Writing a Contrapuntal Poem - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Tools gathered from even-odd project elevators.
Interview: Trace DePass on BOOTless & Lineage
Interview: Trace DePass on BOOTless & Lineage
There are some books that don’t simply speak—they breathe. Trace DePass’s BOOTless is one of them. From the opening page, the collection feels like a body learning itself again—trembling, contracting, releasing—moving toward a truth that’s been waiting beneath the skin. This is a book shaped by breath in all its forms: gasp, rupture, silence, prayer. […]
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.
"New American Constitution" & Brooklyn Poets interview
"New American Constitution" & Brooklyn Poets interview
BOOTless → by Trace DePass | Diode Editions
BOOTless → by Trace DePass | Diode Editions
BOOTless → by Trace DePass | Diode Editions
[th(e)reat] → siege engine
[th(e)reat] → siege engine
in my own body ← here i am a siege
Trace DePass | The Brooklyn Rail
Trace DePass | The Brooklyn Rail
Trace Howard DePass is the author of Self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on television and radio—BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, and NPR’s The Takeaway—and in print—Anomalous Press, Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, Best Teen Writing of 2015, and the Voices of the East Coast youth poetry anthology. DePass is a 2018 Poets House Fellow.
Poetry Daily "wild petrichor, smell of wild rain, caught in the body, wild disrespectful," by Trace Howard DePass
Poetry Daily "wild petrichor, smell of wild rain, caught in the body, wild disrespectful," by Trace Howard DePass
(t)his was the one answer i found. i forget to drink water. another omnitemporal question, this is the one that brought me to answer, how can i be black and wanting to be referred to & not mention my sister's, my mother's, my theydie's, my homies deaths in particular?
YouTube Videos
Watch: Raych Jackson reads "Self-portrait"
Watch: Raych Jackson reads "Self-portrait"
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Short Film: Trace DePass' "band-aids & healings"
Short Film: Trace DePass' "band-aids & healings"
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Live: Trace DePass' "band-aids" over Ellington
Live: Trace DePass' "band-aids" over Ellington
Watch: lament of the slave who does not jump
Watch: lament of the slave who does not jump
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An Interview with Trace
An Interview with Trace
Watch: Notes on the Great Migration
Watch: Notes on the Great Migration
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Trace DePass: Ode to Pokémon Trainer Red
Trace DePass: Ode to Pokémon Trainer Red
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Trace does one man show for Dr. Cornel West, When Black Men Want to Leave
Trace does one man show for Dr. Cornel West, When Black Men Want to Leave
This video was filmed in at Teacher's College at Columbia University. Residing in Jamaica, Queens, Trace DePass is currently a freshman at Brooklyn College a...
June Jordan (fka June Meyer) Archive
June Jordan (fka June Meyer) Archive
Full Reading & Panel with Danez Smith & Robin Coste Lewis for 92Y
Full Reading & Panel with Danez Smith & Robin Coste Lewis for 92Y
Nkosi Nkululeko for Winter Tangerine reviews S.P.A.T.S.B.U.
Nkosi Nkululeko for Winter Tangerine reviews S.P.A.T.S.B.U.
Mary Slechta for GWFM reviews S.P.A.T.S.B.U. by Trace DePass
Mary Slechta for GWFM reviews S.P.A.T.S.B.U. by Trace DePass
Trace DePass Instagram
Trace DePass Instagram
Trace DePass Threads
Trace DePass Threads
Trace DePass Bluesky
Trace DePass Bluesky
Trace DePass LinkedIn
Trace DePass LinkedIn
Trace DePass Facebook
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Trace DePass Substack
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