Friday, October 24, 7 PM: Poets Tracy Chipman and Carter McKenzie

(free)

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Tracy Chipman will be reading from her recent works.

Witch Words - is a collection of published and new works, in prose, poetry and oral storytelling weaving emergent and evolving energies of the feminine archetype Mage through lived experiences with the more-than-human-worlds and mythic archetypes. 

Tracie’s bio

Tracy Chipman, (she/her/they) MA is a somatic healing artist, oral storyteller, creative writer/author, and a certified TRE® provider. They weave with ancient & new experiences inviting us into deeper connections with ourselves and life. Tracy, a former Eugenian now resides on the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples, in Washburn, Wisconsin. In March 2023 Tracy published her first book, Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace. Please visit her website to learn more about her work.

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Carter’s bio

Carter McKenzie (she/her) is the author of two full-length books of poetry, Out ofRefusal (Airlie Press, 2010) and Stem of Us (Flowstone Press, 2018), and two poetry chapbooks, Naming Departure (Traprock Books, 2006) and The Book of Fire (above /ground press, 2024). Her work has been published most recently in Her Words/ The Halcyone/ the Black Mountain Press, The Raven’s Perch, the anthology Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others (Tsunami Press, 2023), and periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (above / ground press, 2025). Carter has recently read poems from herunpublished manuscript Falling in the Dark: Poems Against the Genocide for thePacifica Radio Program Free Palestine NorCal Radio.

For nearly 30 years, Carter has studied and sung traditional Scottish Gaelic songs in the acappella women’s group Kitchen Ceilidh. Learning the language and songs of Gaelicancestors is a connection of spirit with earth, remembered in the bones.

Since its founding in 2015, Carter has been an active member of the Springfield-Eugene chapter of SURJ/Showing Up for Racial Justice. She is also a member of United forImmigrant Justice and Communities United Against Hate.Carter lives in the foothills of Western Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, in a valley that is the traditional homeland of the Molalla Mountain Band.