Reginald Dwayne Betts reads his poems at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 15, 2011.
“What We Know of Horses”
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“After, Again,” for the poet’s wife, Terese Betts
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“A Head Full of Feathers”
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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. The author of the memoir, A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin 2009) and the collection of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), Betts has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.
