About Reginald Dwayne Betts and Iron Horse Literary Review

Today's poem is "On Voting for Barak Obama with a Nat Turner T Shirt On"

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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist, and lawyer. His writing grapples with the central role of incarceration to the American experience. His next collection of poetry, Felon, will be published in 2019 by Norton. His previous collection, Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books, 2015) received the 2016 PEN New England Award in Poetry. His first collection of poems, Shahid Reads His Own Palm, won the Beatrice Hawley Award. Betts's memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison, was the recipient of the 2010 NAACP Image Award for nonfiction. He is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2018 Emerson Fellow at New America, and a 2018-2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow. He holds a BA from the University of Maryland, an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and a JD from Yale Law School.
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