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Color Photographic Portrait of Dr. Tara Betts
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Dr. Whirlwind: Poet, Editor, and Educator Dr. Tara Betts Speaks Her Truth

by AV Benford August 5, 2020August 6, 2020

It is lonesome, yes.  For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind. –Gwendolyn Brooks   r. Tara Betts has one of the most enviable heads of hair of any living writer. Her crown is streaked with ferocious shocks of brilliant white. For […]

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