Ep. 158 Reaching for Answers with Reginald Dwayne Betts

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we talk with poet, author, activist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts (Felon). In the conversation we explore the ways we police and punish ourselves and the people around us, the conditions of worthiness, and the balance between form and word choice in poetry. Dwayne also shares about his nonprofit, Million Book Project, and the work they do to bring books into prisons.

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The Stacks Book Club selection for April is The Tradition by Jericho Brown, we will discuss the book with Reginald Dwayne Betts on Wednesday April 7th.

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0:32.2	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.5	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYS, PUNISH AND POLICE each other.
0:42.8	Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books
0:44.9	and the people who read them.
0:46.1	I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and our guest today
0:48.2	is author, poet, activist, lawyer, and teacher,
0:51.8	Reginald Dwayne Betts.
0:53.7	We talk today about poetry, incarceration,
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