Trace Howard DePass is the winner of the 2024 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America & the author of BOOTless → (Diode Editions, 2024). His work has been featured by The Poetry Foundation, Ours Poetica, Poet Lore, NPR’s the Takeaway, Sand, Split This Rock, The Poetry Project, Bettering American Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. DePass is a fellow with Poets House, Obsidian and Teachers & Writers.
By Trace DePass
“born decrepit in my subject position quest / (←)ion, marked, punctuated. i swing from it. i wrote it / backwards, start penultimate, i’m par [← achuting,”