New Haven Independent: Dwayne Betts’s Path From Prison To Poetry
By Thomas Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Jan. 6, 2020 Reginald Dwayne Betts was 17 years old and locked up in solitary confinement in an adult prison when he found his calling to become a poet. The nationally renowned poet and lawyer told the story of his literary coming of age during an interview…