Welcome to. The free library of philadelphia. My name is Jason Freeman and its my great honor to be here tonight to introduce Reginald Dwayne. Thats referred to by the new york book review as a powerful work of lyric, art and de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. Reginald dwayne betts is poetry collection felon won the acp image award, the american book award and was finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times book prize. Also the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir he received the 2019 National Magazine award for his New York Times magazine essay about his journey from prison inmate to becoming a of wales yale school and an attorney. His other honors include a guggenheim fellowship, a 2021 macarthur genius grant, and a radcliffe fellowship from harvard. Hes the founder executive director of freedom reads a non not for Profit Institution devoted to greater access to literature in prison. Dwayne joins us tonight with his latest redaction created in collaborat
Welcome to. The free library of philadelphia. My name is Jason Freeman and its my great honor to be here tonight to introduce Reginald Dwayne. Thats referred to by the new york book review as a powerful work of lyric, art and de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. Reginald dwayne betts is poetry collection felon won the acp image award, the american book award and was finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times book prize. Also the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir he received the 2019 National Magazine award for his New York Times magazine essay about his journey from prison inmate to becoming a of wales yale school and an attorney. His other honors include a guggenheim fellowship, a 2021 macarthur genius grant, and a radcliffe fellowship from harvard. Hes the founder executive director of freedom reads a non not for Profit Institution devoted to greater access to literature in prison. Dwayne joins us tonight with his latest redaction created in collaborat
Welcome to. The free library of philadelphia. My name is Jason Freeman and its my great honor to be here tonight to introduce Reginald Dwayne. Thats referred to by the new york book review as a powerful work of lyric, art and de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. Reginald dwayne betts is poetry collection felon won the acp image award, the american book award and was finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times book prize. Also the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir he received the 2019 National Magazine award for his New York Times magazine essay about his journey from prison inmate to becoming a of wales yale school and an attorney. His other honors include a guggenheim fellowship, a 2021 macarthur genius grant, and a radcliffe fellowship from harvard. Hes the founder executive director of freedom reads a non not for Profit Institution devoted to greater access to literature in prison. Dwayne joins us tonight with his latest redaction created in collaborat
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Welcome to class today as, everybody doing all right . So this is history outside. A field school in finding america so awesome. Esther, weve been going to different places around campus and trying to think about what we see how the landscape impacts where we are and what we think about where we. So those Big Questions for the semester are, where am i . Whats the next one . Can you remember that one . So we got where am i . What happened here . And then how do i fit into that . Now . All right. So were going to do that today to think about where am i . What happened here and how do i fit into it . And so to set this up in the long term, im going to pull a quote from a book called ecclesiastes from the old testament, and ill read it so that i dont mess it up, although there are a lot of different versions of it all. The rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not yet full to the place from which the rivers came there. They return again. So one thing i want us to think about as we look a