Reading: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
22-10-2020 4:00 PM
End Date
22-10-2020 5:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, October 22, 2020, as part of the 51st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Working Classes,” Reginald Dwayne Betts reads some of his poetry. Betts reads from “Blood History,” “The Lord Might Have Given Him Wings,” “Exile,” “Whisky for Breakfast,” “Ghazal” “Parking Lot,” “Parking Lot, Too,” “Essay on Reentry,” “For a Bail Denied,” “Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing,” and others from his collection Felon. Betts also responds to audience questions about what projects are next for him, what held him together in prison besides reading poetry and memoir, his favorite poets, the Million Book Project, and his writing routine.
Introduced by President Andrew Armacost.
Reading: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Online (via Zoom)
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, October 22, 2020, as part of the 51st Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Working Classes,” Reginald Dwayne Betts reads some of his poetry. Betts reads from “Blood History,” “The Lord Might Have Given Him Wings,” “Exile,” “Whisky for Breakfast,” “Ghazal” “Parking Lot,” “Parking Lot, Too,” “Essay on Reentry,” “For a Bail Denied,” “Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing,” and others from his collection Felon. Betts also responds to audience questions about what projects are next for him, what held him together in prison besides reading poetry and memoir, his favorite poets, the Million Book Project, and his writing routine.
Introduced by President Andrew Armacost.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2020/day5/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.