“A Name Like a Handcuff”

Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry ’10) reads at PoetryFoundation.org

Reginald has received an NAACP Image Award and a Radcliffe Fellowship to Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies.

He is the author of the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm (2010, Alice James Books) and A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2009, Avery).