Become a Member

Posts by author

Tara Betts

Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2009) and a Cave Canem fellow. Tara teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Essence, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and the upcoming A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (The University of Akron Press, 2012) and Villanelles (Everyman Publishing, 2012).
  • Tara Betts

    The Last Poem I Loved: “Lessons from a Mirror” by Thylias Moss

    At Redbones. Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman. Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler. Pyramid of Bone. Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky. Small Congregations. Tokyo Butter. The titles alone are provocative enough to evoke curiosity about her poems.…