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Born & raised in Kankakee, attended school in Chicago and stayed until 2005 to spread her wings in the dream of NYC which became somewhat exhilarating, and at times, outright lackluster. She still loves doing poetry readings, but is more selective these days. She looks at teaching as one of the last remaining battlegrounds for liberation and hopes to find a way to preserve the people that matter to her in the canon and in the hearts of readers and listeners. In spite of all her seriousness, she likes to play in the toy store, blow bubbles on train platforms, write quotes in random places with sidewalk chalk and have hip hop nostalgia for the music that still needs to challenge its misogyny and materialism, because like Common, she used to love her...]]> 35 female Bloomfield, NJ 04/2007 12/2009 141 787 447 true 5672421 read 3 true 121616 currently-reading 337 true 121615 to-read 31 false 191279 favorites 21 false 404174 anthologypublications Arc & Hue (Perfect Paperback) by Tara Betts]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77171413 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418YgHVUOKL._SL75_.jpg 62580 Tara Betts http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1177972200p2/62580.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/62580-tara-betts Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:18:50 -0800 The Devil's Garden (Paperback) by Adrian Matejka]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67964444 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172793449s/218127.jpg 62580 Tara Betts http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1177972200p2/62580.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/62580-tara-betts Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:44:09 -0700 Conduit (Black Goat) by Khadijah Queen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67964329 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O7NDmajOL._SL75_.jpg 62580 Tara Betts http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1177972200p2/62580.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/62580-tara-betts Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:42:48 -0700 The Healing Corregidora Eva's Man (Paperback) by Gayl Jones]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45036884 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 62580 Tara Betts http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1177972200p2/62580.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/62580-tara-betts Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:17:10 -0800