Lucy Anderton and Tara Betts
Guild Complex
Tara Betts has taught throughout Chicago with programs such as Gallery 37, Cook County?s Juvenile Detention Center and City Girls. Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian III, Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago?s Guild Complex (Tia chucha Press), Poetry slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press,2000) and in ?Words on Fire?- a production of Steppenwolf theatre.
Tara Betts has taught throughout Chicago with programs such as Gallery 37, Cook County?s Juvenile Detention Center and City Girls. Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian III, Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago?s Guild Complex (Tia chucha Press), Poetry slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press,2000) and in ?Words on Fire?- a production of Steppenwolf theatre.
She twice represented Chicago at the National Poetry Slam as part of the Mad Bar team. As a freelance writer, her work appeared in The Source, XXL, QBR The Black Book Reiview and New City. Tara self-published the chapbook Can I Hang? She is working on a book of nonfiction poems about Ida B. wells-Barnett. Lucy Anderton is a Welsh performance poet who has traveled extensively through Europe, Africa and the Americas, but whose writing and performing career emerged only after settling in America, especially in Chicago and Los Angeles. Anderton was a member of the 200 Mad Bar National slam team and also won the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mike award that same year. In 1994, she performed for the poet?s Tent in the Lollapalooza rock tour. She lives and works in Chicago, performs in the monthly women Out Loud poetry revues at Mad Bar, and occasionally acts as MC at guild complex readings.Performers
Lucy Anderton and Tara Betts