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Reginald Dwayne Betts

Stuck behind bars, a writer found a way to connect to the world

Poet, memoirist, and teacher Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about his experience as a teen in prison and how poetry gave him a new identity. Betts is the author of Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books, 2015) and Felon, forthcoming from Norton in October, and is a recipient of the 2019 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts
Bastards of the Reagan Era
Four Way Books
PBS NewsHour
2015
Felon
Norton
2019

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