Tara Betts


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  Spoken Word Revolution Redux
(Sourcebooks; ISBN 1402208693)
  Bowery Women
(YBK Publishers, Inc.; ISBN 0976435985)
Tara is one of the women in a black & white photo looking out above the Bowery Poetry Club. Would you believe that she's in the fourth floor window above the word "CLUB"?
  Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology
(Parker Publishing; ISBN 1600430104)
  Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita
(Southeast Missouri State University Press; ISBN 0976041359)
  Fingernails Across a Chalkboard
(Third World Press; ISBN 088378274X)
  In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 6
(MW Enterprises; ISBN 0965413675)
  Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
(Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809327031)
  Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
(University of Michigan Press; ISBN 0472069241)
Look for this collection of more than 100 poets from the Cave Canem family in 2006. Tara's poem "For Those Who Need a True Story" will be included in this amazing gathering.
  Contemporary American Women Poets A-Z
(Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN 0313317836)
Tara co-wrote an essay about Chicago poet Beatriz Badikian for this reference.
  Power Lines
(Tia Chucha; ISBN 1882688228)
includes Tara's poem"Sugar Blue, Harmonica Man", which was written at/inspired by a Yusef Komunyakaa reading at Chicago's Hot House.
  Poetry Slam
(Manic D Press; ISBN 0916397661)
contains Tara's poem "Rock'n'Roll be a Black Woman", one of the poems that she slammed with in 1999 & 2000.
  Erotic Haiku
(IBC Books; Bilingual edition; ISBN 4896840208)
Contains the first publication of one of Tara's untitled haiku in English and Japanese translation. This anthology was released in Japan and the U.S.
  These Hands I Know
(Sarabande Books; ISBN 1889330728)
contains Tara's essay "Peace Offerings"
  The Spoken Word Revolution
(Sourcebooks Trade; Book and CD edition; ISBN 1402200374)
contains Tara's poems "Rock'n'Roll be a Black Woman" and "A Mixed Message"
  That Takes Ovaries!
(Three Rivers Press; ISBN 0609806599)
contain's Tara's short reflection "Nothing from Nobody" about when 5-year-old Tara and her grandmother had a DWB incident.
  Bum Rush the Page
(Three Rivers Press; ISBN 0609808400)
This is the first and only publication of Tara's poem "Dreadlocks".
  ROLE CALL
(Third World Press; ISBN 088378239)
This is the first and only publication of Tara's poem "How To Be a Mixed Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)", which was inspired by "How to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)" in Patricia Smith's first book "Life According to Motown."
  Best Black Women's Erotica 2
(Cleis Press; ISBN 1573441635)
Tara's first published short story "Talk to Me" appears in this collection.