T-Spirit the Poet

Tracy ( T-Spirit) Stanton is a highly featured award winning International SpokenWord Artist, Trainer/Workshop Facilitator, Community organizer, and Peace Maker who uses the transformative power of spoken word poetry and storytelling as a tool for personal and societal transformation. She deeply understands the need for connection, collective liberation, and creative expression. Tracy speaks truth to power and healing to the heart as a form of resistance. She is also a founding member of Freedom Community Center which is a black led abolitionist organization that is building a movement of survivors who are intervening in interpersonal and systemic violence and the founder of Some Things Must Be Heard : Spitting & Politicking which is a community building and spoken word platform that features radical, revolutionary artists and community organizers that are dedicated to freedom dreaming and power building. 

 

Tracy ( T-Spirit) Stanton has led and organized several direct actions, facilitated over 70  community organizing meetings ( black only spaces), and hosted a plethora of all inclusive workshops inside and outside of the country addressing topics such as : systemic violence, movement building, transformative justice, racial capitalism, abolition,emotional suppression, anxiety, inner criticism, self defeating thoughts, emotional regulation, and much more. 

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A few of her most recent accomplishments include becoming a 2024 Artist Inc Facilitator and 2023 Artist Leadership Fellow with the Mid America Arts Alliance , being selected as a 2023 Regional Arts Commission Grant Recipient for her Some Things Must Be Heard: Open/ Closed Mic ( Spitting & Politicking Series (a project, where she have featured close to 20 spoken words artists and community organizers), serving as the 2023 Poet in Residence with the National Blues Museum where she had the honor to present the Poetry Collective (10 local Spoken words Artists who were compensated to share their arts with over 200 attendees) at the Blues on the Block Summer Series between June and August. She also served as a teaching Artist with Freedom Arts and Education Center  in the summer of 2023 where she enjoyed facilitating poetry workshops with youth  ranging from grades K -12th and when I tell you they wrote, healed and performed: that is exactly what they did. In addition to these accomplishments, she was a guest panelist at the 2023 Socialism Conference where she presented poetry, discussed abolition organizing, alternatives to police and shared the demands from the STL Defund. Reenvision and Transform Campaign that she is involved in. She was also  sought out to facilitate her Poetry Workshop :The He(ART) in ART at the 2024 & 2023  Roots & Remedies Conference.

 

T-Spirit the poet has appeared in the St. Louis American, Riverfront Times, STLMAG, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and on KSDK.  She has also been acknowledged in the Washington Post, New York Times, Abc.news, Riverfront Times, St. Louis American, KSDK, Now This is News, St. Louis Public Radio, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch for her advocacy, activism, and community service. She is a 2022 Missouri Mental Health Champion Nominee, 2022 Delux Magazine Power 100 Honoree, 2022 Streets to Success Award Recipient, 2021 Mid America Emmy Nominee for a short story highlighting her transition, 2022 Center for Women In Transition Community Partner Award Recipient, 2019 Staying Power Award and 2019 Beautiful Transformation Award Recipient.

 

Poetry allows her to live in the hearts and souls of everyone she encounters.