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My name is Reginald Dwayne Betts. As a teenager in solitary confinement, poetry saved my life. With my sixth collection of poems, Doggerel, I've committed to sharing poems with the world: in Ubers, in bars, on street corners, once to a priest at a coffee shop, once to a nun in a doctor's office.
 

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My name is Reginald Dwayne Betts. As a teenager in solitary confinement, poetry saved my life. With my sixth collection of poems, Doggerel, I've committed to sharing poems with the world: in Ubers, in bars, on street corners, once to a priest at a coffee shop, once to a nun in a doctor's office.
 
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Dwayne Betts is a literary performance artist who deploys words with elegance and force. To hear him speak and read, whether in the quiet of the classroom or before a packed audience, is to travel with him to a place few of us have been and to emerge changed. He is simply electrifying.

Aminatta Forna; Writer & Director of the Lannan Center, Georgetown University

 

[Dwayne's Bett's career] is an improbable trajectory, and no one knows this better than Betts, who deserves now to be recognized more for the brilliance of his lyric art than the vicissitudes of his fate as a youth.

Carolyn Forche, NY Times

Before you go, I invite you to listen to my latest interview on NPR (3/10/2025) talking about my latest book, Doggerel ------>

 

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