Featured Poet introduces an emerging or previously published poets, with a brief bio and samples of their work. Send queries to editor[at]phatitude.org.
Tara Betts
Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue. She teaches at Rutgers University and leads community-based workshops. Tara is a graduate of the New England College MFA Program. She represented Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam, coached youth who went on to Brave New Voices, and appeared on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.” Her writing has also been dramatized for the stage in several productions, including Steppenwolf Theater’s “Words On Fire” and “Fingernails Across the Chalkboard”. Her work has been published in Essence, Bum Rush the Page, Gathering Ground and both Spoken Word Revolution anthologies.
Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck is an Israeli-Iraqi poet who brings his readers into his own memories and combines them with the everyday reality of people whose sorrows, happiness and inner worlds have deeply affected him. Ronny’s humanistic view of the world universalizes his poetry, which is why his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
