Betts, Tara 2019
Thursday, August 29 2019
Blue Hour Reading Series with Tara Betts and avery r. young
Chicago Water Taxi (Loop to Chinatown’s Ping Tom Park)
Blue Hour Reading Series with Tara Betts and avery r. young
Chicago Water Taxi (Loop to Chinatown’s Ping Tom Park)
Think about the air invisible as it uncurls
a wave of toxins. Think about how its fingertips
trace the skin as a baton falls on the flesh
merely seconds later. Think about how heavy
metals brown the water and we are told to drink.
– Tara Betts, “Think, Think”
Listen to this reading by Tara Betts at Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago:
If you be the needle
I be the LP.
If you be the buffed wall,
I be the Krylon.
If you be the backspin,
I be the break.
If you be the head nod,
I be the bass line.
– Tara Betts, “Hip Hop Analogies”
Watch Tara Betts’s 2013 discussion with Terrence Hayes for HoCoPoLitSo:
