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At the recent gathering on conceptual poetry in Tucson, Tracie Morris performed a piece based on a single sentence she heard spoken in a stentorian, didactic-pedagogical "Afro-Shakespearean voice" - "It all started when we were brought here as slaves from Africa." She creates a sound poem of the line in her unique way of singing-uttering. You can watch a
video of the whole reading at which this piece is the final performance. Better yet, listen to the
audio-only mp3 I created from the video, which is now linked to
Tracie Morris's PennSound page.