An Interview with Reginald Dwayne Betts (Poetry ’10)
Poetry alumn Reginald Dwayne Betts was recently interviewed in Interview, regarding his recent album House of Unending (a collaborative project made with another WW alumn, Reed Turchi). Read an excerpt below, and find a link to the full conversation:
“I Always Wanted to Be a Witness”: Dwayne Betts on House of Unending
PEAY: I’m going to jump right in because I really want to talk about House of Unending. How did you first approach this project compared to other kinds of performance, like poetry and spoken word? This feels new and fresh.
BETTS: In some ways, we thought of it like old school improvisation. You got somebody with a guitar, you got somebody with some words, and we come together to make something happen. Between what Reed [Turchi] does with the guitar and what I was doing with words, we can let the poetry live in a different space.
PEAY: How long did it take to make?
BETTS: Really, you’re talking about spending two days in the studio. And everything we recorded, we kept.
PEAY: Oh, wow.
BETTS: We got some other stuff that we aren’t going to release on this album. But it really does feel like a live album in that what we get in that session is it. It’s my first time doing this, but it really set me up for a different kind of experience.
Continue reading here: Reginald Dwayne Betts | Interview
