Tools & Ornaments

Tools & Ornaments

Beyond air & water, beyond food & shelter, do we also require beauty to survive? And can there be beauty without connection to the divine feminine, holding a world together? A cairn of poems built from the weight of physical and spiritual inheritance, Tools & Ornaments leans against a heroic crown of sonnets, piecing together a life that ends as an act of mercy. Longtime educator Tracy Rice Weber now teaches Creative Writing and Literature to undergraduates at Old Dominion University and poetry workshops for The Muse Writing Center in Norfolk, VA. A graduate of the ODU MFA Program, her work can be found in River River, The Bangalore Review, on Poets.org as a recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize, and forthcoming in CALYX. In 2021 her chapbook, "All That Keeps Me," was published by Finishing Line Press. She lives with her husband and two of their three sons in Hampton, VA.