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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and founder of the nonprofit\xa0Freedom Reads. His\xa0New York Times Magazine\xa0article\xa0"Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out"\xa0won the National Magazine Award. His new podcast is\xa0Almost There.\n\u201cI felt like I had to own becoming something and intuitively understood that if I didn't lay claim to desiring to be something, that it would be too many other forces that would be pulling on me to dictate that I become something else. \u2026 When you say you're a writer, if you know nothing else, then you know that you read. You pay attention to the world. \u2026 And prison became the metaphor by which I understood the world and poetry became the medium by which I understood what it meant to write about the world and what it meant to take seriously the responsibility to write about the world that I knew.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\ndwaynebetts.com\n\nfreedomreads.org\n\n01:00\xa0Almost There with Dwayne Betts\xa0(Emerson Collective)\n\n05:00\xa0The Black Poets\xa0(Dudley Randall \u2022 Bantam \u2022 1985)\n\n10:00\xa0Married\u2026 with Children\xa0(Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt \u2022 Fox \u2022 1987-1997)\n\n21:00\xa0"Scientists and Engineers"\xa0(Killer Mike \u2022 Michael \u2022 2023)\n\n24:00\xa0"Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Oct 2018)\n\n26:00\xa0"The Language of Birds"\xa0(Anselm Kiefer \u2022 2018)\n\n28:00\xa0A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison\xa0(Avery \u2022 2010)\n\n31:00\xa0Felon: An American Washi Tale\n\n\n32:00\xa0"Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Oct 2020)\n\n33:00\xa0Shahid Reads His Own Palm\xa0(Alice James Books \u2022 2010)\n\n33:00\xa0Bastards of the Reagan Era\xa0(Four Way Books \u2022 2015)\n\n33:00\xa0Felon\xa0(Norton \u2022 2019)\n\n33:00\xa0Redaction: A Project by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts\xa0(MoMA PS1 \u2022 2019)\n\n33:00\xa0Redaction\xa0(Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts \u2022 Norton \u2022 2023)\n\n44:00\xa0Creative Nonfiction\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices