“Everytime they kill a black boy…”: Representations of Police Brutality Against Children in Poems by Audre Lorde, Jayne Cortez, and June Jordan

Author Biography

• Tara Betts, SUNY Binghamton University

  Tara Betts is the author of Arc & Hue and the libretto THE GREATEST!: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali. Tara is a Ph.D. candidate in English/Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton University. In addition to several anthologies, her writings have appeared in The Black Scholar, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, Xavier Review, Mosaic magazine, and Sounding Out!, a journal in sound studies.  www.tarabetts.net