Dr. Tara Betts

Author of REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR. @DePaulPAX Professor of Practice. On ig and TikTok as @tarabettschitown.

[Tamika Thompson she/her/hers @tamikathompson]

My discussion with @tarabetts, Alex Jennings, and @LPKindred was powerful. I'm grateful to @DaBookJoint for holding space as well as to everyone who came out to see us.

More photos in comments.

#thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson #indiebookstore #books #horror #booktour

[Tamika Thompson she/her/hers @tamikathompson]

This afternoon, CHICAGO! @DaBookJoint with @tarabetts, Alex Jennings, and @LPKindred. Join us!

https://t.co/s8JOHv81Au

#books #thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson #horror

[Tamika Thompson she/her/hers @tamikathompson]

One of the best things about this book tour is my conversation partners! I recommend each author here! #books #thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson

@KenyaMossdyme @ADalton_author @tarabetts @RachelHowzell
@LPKindred @HerPlotThickens

[Tamika Thompson she/her/hers @tamikathompson]

CHICAGO! Save the date! May 17th, I'm taking #thecurseofhestergardens to @DaBookJoint and will be in conversation with a few local geniuses--@tarabetts, @Magicknegro, & @LPKindred.

Join us!
@ErewhonBooks @KensingtonBooks @BookSparks #tamikathompson #horror #bookish #booktour

[Excited Utterance @ExcitedUttRead]

At the BBQ Spot by Tara Betts - Poems | Academy of American Poets ⁦@POETSorg⁩ https://t.co/LAQH7NpLow

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

Last call! 🚨 Browse our FEBRUARY ISSUE before it hits the archives tomorrow. 💕 https://t.co/VVmpOz8Klr

WORDS: @bretthymeljr, Rowan Tate, Maria Lata, @tarabetts.
ART: VANDI.
PLUS: A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews Asa Drake.

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

"so I / smile, lean into unspoken knowing’s incline / that people miss"

Don't miss @tarabetts's poem THIS "ACCENT" THAT I CAN'T LOSE & THEY CAN'T PLACE before it hits the archives! 💕 https://t.co/NuyFzoyYQW

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

@tarabetts' poem THIS “ACCENT” I CAN'T LOSE & THEY CAN'T PLACE explores the identity and expectation caught in the cadence of a voice. Here, she shares just one thing about the piece: https://t.co/cwUrVU21kz

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

"most times, people can hear the twang / before I do, this southern relic on my tongue"

You've got to check out @tarabetts poem THIS "ACCENT" THAT I CAN'T LOSE & THEY CAN'T PLACE from our FEBRUARY ISSUE. ✨ Read it right here: https://t.co/TUolLvWJHj

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Have you listened to “At the BBQ Spot” by Tara Betts on our daily #PoemADay podcast?

https://t.co/7gBYzOVNr3

[CLMP @CLMPorg]

Tara Betts’s BREAK THE HABIT is on our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list!

This @triohousepress poetry collection “captures the compromised living of Black lives, the lives of Black women, an unravelling relationship, reclaiming self, and spooling spiders.” https://t.co/8GtabLkwsp

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

from “At the BBQ Spot” by Tara Betts
@tarabetts
#PoemADay

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“Fascism is a new name for the terror the Negro has always faced in America.”

-Langston Hughes, 1936

[NY Public Library @nypl]

100 years. 100 books. 100 Black voices. 📚

The Schomburg Centennial Reading List is made up personal recommendations of the most impactful books by Black authors from some of today's most celebrated writers, artists, and journalists, library luminaries, all organized by the Schomburg Center’s Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.

We are thrilled to offer a selection of these titles as no-wait e-books for all NYPL Library cardholders through February 28.

Explore the list: https://t.co/RzQXHgvZE8

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

These profs are literally fighting for the survival of the humanities. Hold the line!

[Hopkins Press @JHUPress]

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Callaloo
43.4, Winter 2025
https://t.co/Mx1t6eZkSM

CONTRIBUTORS
Kyla Kupferstein Torres, Marlon B. Ross, KC Lehman, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Lanre Akinsiku, Gerald Majer, Tara Betts, Gbolahan Badmus, Silvia Roca-Martinez, Annastecia Ebisike, and many more

[Dr. Tara Betts @tarabetts]

I keep recommending this book to people.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading.
https://t.co/1F9kcXUvWb

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading.
https://t.co/1F9kcXUvWb

[DePaul English @DePaul_English]

DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte and Tara Betts will be part of the all-star reading lineup—alongside New York Times Bestselling Author Erika L. Sánchez, National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award finalist Robyn Schiff, and many others.

https://t.co/usL8Vtr3xm