Finding Inspiration: Harris combines favorite pastimes to create art he loves (May 4, 2012)
CHURCH HILL — “I’ve always been kind of a creative person,” Tracy Harris said sitting at a reading table inside Church Hill Public Library. Listening to him speak about his hobbies with modesty, you would never know his handiwork was on exhibit less than 20 feet away in celebration of National Poetry Month. Tracy is an amateur poet and photographer, self-trained with an equal passion for both pastimes. “When I was 14, I started to write poems,” he said, “but I didn’t start writing in earnest until four years ago.” Tracy said his work often includes themes of nature, as well as things in life that inspire him. “Pastoral poems; how you feel when you’re sitting on the front porch, or under the shade of a tree. Those are the types of things that inspire me,” he said. “Poetry just comes to me. It’s very seldom difficult to write.” Tracy’s goal is to compile a...