Tara Betts
Tara Betts has taught at several Northwestern, DePaul, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Rutgers University, as well as at Stateville Prison via Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project. Tara served as the Inaugural Poet for The People Practitioner Fellow at University of Chicago. Tara is also Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and founder of the nonprofit organization The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago’s South Side.-Loyola University
Books
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
2017
ISBN 9781922101433
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
2015
ISBN 9781849352109
Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 1
2016
ISBN 9781627781596
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
2019
ISBN 9780810140776
Home girls make some noise
2007
ISBN 9781600430107- No cover
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
2019
Octavia's Brood
2015
ISBN 9781531871291
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
ISBN 9781949467673
Arc And Hue
2009
ISBN 9780981920870
Break the Habit
2016
ISBN 9780996586436