childhood

"Tara Jean Betts has crafted a manual of sweet lyric, corner doowop and unsettling truths, an unerring guidebook for the colored girl who is born into several worlds at once. Praise this raging poetess for trumpeting that hidden voice, for baring its blade edges and giving it space to scream. Her poems are too true to be kept secret and too stunning to be denied."

Prose and poetry exploring themes of childhood, memory, society and the experiences we all share as human beings.

An anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction dedicated to work that explores the relationship between people and the environment.

An anthology of various writings by young women dealing with topics pertaining to race, education, suicide, depression, divorce, womanhood, abuse and more.

Reflections on the lives of ordinary people by writers from a network of adult education centers all over the city

Reflections on the lives of ordinary people by writers from a network of adult education centers all over the city

An introduction to Patrick’s autobiography. This is Part I. Recollections from growing up in an Irish family Queens during the Depression.

In two sections; segments taken from recorded interviews with Andrew Wagner and Jen Walton intersperse witht he author’s own memories and comments.

A collection of poems about Alcoholism and family life.