Poets & Writers Theater
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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.
Tags: Poetry | Creative Nonfiction | Reginald Dwayne Betts | Bastards of the Reagan Era | Four Way Books | PBS NewsHour | 2015 | Felon | Norton | 2019