Visiting Writers Series with Reginald Dwayne Betts

About This Event

GU Visiting Writers Series welcomes American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for an evening conversation about his creative work and social justice activism.

Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of the Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry, the recently published Felon, Bastards of the Reagan Era and Shahid Reads His Own Palm. He has been awarded the PEN New England Award for poetry, named a Guggenheim Fellow (2018) and NEA Fellow (2018), and received a NAACP Image Award. Mr. Betts is also the founder of Freedom Reads, a first-of-its-kind organization working to radically transform access to literature in prison.