Thank you to everyone for reading my work. When my Huffpost article first hit the Internet, I was stunned by the world’s reaction and got caught completely off guard. People started looking to me and asking for advice, but I didn’t feel comfortable or qualified. I was as I am now a father doing the best I can to raise my daughter. None of this was planned. It just happened this way. We do what we can. Your kids are …
Author: Tracy Jones
At the top of 2021, Humancloud Abandonment, a record that I recorded almost 20 years ago, is getting reissued by Uncommon Records, the same label that put it out back in ’06. My long time collaborator, Sam Grant did the photography and redesigned the cover art below. Look out for further details. …
excerpt from my collection of poetry, still breathing…, 2002 Original cover art (by Carlos Santiago) from my collection of poetry, still breathing..., 2002. Out of respect of privacy, some names. and faces have been erased and blurred. …
For CharlotteFive, I wrote about becoming a Black father in Japan and raising my daughter in Tokyo and Charlotte, North Carolina. Read the piece here. …
For the past nine years I had been living in Tokyo, Japan. With my wife Haruki and our seven-year-old daughter, Kantra we were on a 13-hour flight from Tokyo to JFK airport in New York City. It was the day before 9/11 and it was our first touchdown in the States. NYC was one of the global epicenters of COVID. At JFK we had to go through immigration and transfer to a connecting flight to Charlotte. Throughout the weeks leading …
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