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Reginald Dwayne Betts

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

About the Author: REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS is a poet and lawyer. A 2021 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Executive Director of Freedom Reads, a not-for-profit organization that is radically transforming the access to literature in prisons through the installation of Freedom Libraries in prisons across this country. For more than twenty-years, he has used his poetry and […]

Written Work: Poetry, Labor, and the Global City

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Event Center 455 Fifth Avenue, New York

A book party like no other, unpacking the pleasures and pain of working in the city. Kicking off NYPL’s World Literature Festival, join poets Camonghne Felix, Dorothea Lasky, Emanuel Xavier, and moderator Helena de Groot for readings and lively discussion about poetry, language, and labor. From day to day labor to the work of writing, this conversation explores the way poetry […]