Join renowned poet and author Reginald Dwayne Betts for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and self-expression. Designed especially for high school students, this workshop blends live readings from his latest collection, Doggerel, with an engaging, interactive writing session.

Teen writers of all levels are welcome! Bring your curiosity, an open mind, and something to write with.

ABOUT REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS

Reginald Dwayne Betts holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and received his law degree from Yale Law School. A 2021 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Executive Director of Freedom Reads, a not-for-profit organization that is radically transforming the access to literature in prisons through the installation of Freedom Libraries in prisons across this country. Betts’ memoir A Question of Freedom chronicles Betts’s years in prison as a youth, reflecting back on his crime and looking ahead to how his experiences and the books he discovered while incarcerated would define him.