Reginald Dwayne Betts on Freedom and Poetic Constraint

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, a lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, an organization with the goal of bringing a library to every cell block in America. We talked with him about what he read – and wrote – while he was incarcerated, and what it taught him about what it means to be free, to be loved, and to be part of a community. Read a transcript of this episode on our website, and find books by Betts in our library catalog.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts on Freedom and Poetic Constraint is an episode from Borrowed by Brooklyn Public Library.

This episode is 20:33 long.

This episode was published on Jul 29, 2025.

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