Dale Tracy is the author of
With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017); the chapbooks
Celebration Machine (Proper Tales, 2018) and
The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground, 2020); and the chapoem
What It Satisfies (Puddles of Sky, 2016). She received an honourable mention in Kalamalka Press’s 2019 John Lent chapbook award contest, and her poems have appeared in print and online publications like
The Goose,
Touch the Donkey,
The Week Shall Inherit the Verse,
Gatherings,
Dusie, and
Chaudiere.
What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
When I write, the ideas come from me and the world as I live in it. But they belong to the poem. The poem’s the one talking, not me or any version of me—except as that version of me that is me as a poem talking.
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