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Reginald Dwayne Betts Home Bio Felon Reviews & Media Tour The Play Contact HomeBioFelon Reviews & MediaTourThe PlayContact Reginald Dwayne Betts Scroll FelonPoems Buy The Book ‘Felon’ Author Says, ‘Everybody has to Tell Their Kids Something’NPR - All Things Considered - Listen to the InterviewReginald Dwayne Betts’s Poetry After PrisonNew Yorker Magazine InterviewA Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After PrisonNY Times Book ReviewIn 'Felon', Reginald Dwayne Betts Reflects On Life After PrisonWNPR Weekend Edition - Listen to the Interview“If I Told Her How Often I Thought of Prison”: A Review of “Felon”Michigan Quarterly Review Felon Reviews and Media Reginald Dwayne Betts Reginald Dwayne Betts is the founder of Freedom Reads, a first-of-its-kind organization working to radically transform access to literature in prison.In October 2018, the New York Times Magazine published Reginald Dwayne Betts long essay “Getting Out.” Several months later, the piece was awarded a National Magazine Award. The publication was another example of Betts entering into a new genre and bringing the same depth and richness of self-reflection and exploration of the central problem of this generation: incarceration and its effects of families and communities.Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate ofthe Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry, the recently published Felon, Bastards of the Reagan EraandShahid Reads His Own Palm. Read full biography PoemsPoetry FoundationHouse of Unending & Other Poems Learn more Kenyon ReviewParable of the Groundhog Learn more Poets.orgI’m Learning Nothing This Night Learn more Scoundrel TimeSecrets Learn more The Marshall ProjectReentry: a Triptych Learn more EssaysThe New York TimesCould an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out Read essay The New York TimesThe Lives They Lived: Ntozake Shange Read essay The Yale Law JournalWhat Break Do Children Deserve? Read essay The Yale Law JournalOnly Once I Thought About Suicide Read essay The Washington PostSeeing Emmett Till's face in Southeast Read essay The Washington PostA Former Virginia Inmate Recalls the Book That Changed His Life Read essay Knight First Amendment InstituteHow the Surveillance State Destroys the Lives of Poor Whites and People of Color Read essay SlateThe Stoop Isn’t the Jungle Read essay Time MagazineI Spent My Teen Years in Solitary Confinement and This Is What I Learned Read essay Reginald Dwayne Betts is on the road, find out where Meet Reginald Dwayne Betts Books Authored by Reginald Dwayne BettsClick the images to buy the book #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1567525395957_5628 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid { margin-right: -20px; }#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1567525395957_5628 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid-slide .margin-wrapper { margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Contact for Speaking EngagementsErin SimpsonDirector, Simon & Schuster Speakers BureauSimon & Schuster, Inc.1230 Avenue of the Americas, 12th FloorNew York, NY 10020212.698.7576 Hero Felon About Poems Essays Tour Other Books Speaking Engagements Reginald Dwayne BettsHome | Biography | Felon Reviews & Media | Tour | Contact Copyright © Reginald Dwayne Betts. All Rights Reserved.