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词条 Reginald Dwayne Betts
释义

  1. Early life and imprisonment

  2. Education, writing, and activism after prison

  3. Recognition

      Writing awards  

  4. Publications

  5. Bibliography

      Poetry   Collections   List of selected poems   Non-fiction 

  6. References

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| name = Reginald Dwayne Betts
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| birth_date = November 5, 1980
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| occupation = Poet, Teacher, Lawyer
| nationality = American
| education = Prince George's Community College;
University of Maryland;
Warren Wilson College.
Yale Law School
PhD Candidate at Yale Law School
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Reginald Dwayne Betts (born February 1, 1980) is an American poet, memoirist, and teacher. As a result of a carjacking he committed at the age of sixteen, he spent over eight years in prison. He has gone on to author several award-winning works, including poetry, a memoir, and legal scholarship.

Early life and imprisonment

Born in Maryland, Betts was in gifted programs throughout his youth, and in high school was an honors student and class treasurer at Suitland High School in the Washington, D.C. suburb of District Heights, Maryland.[1]

At the age of sixteen, he and a friend carjacked a man who had fallen asleep in his car at the Springfield Mall.[1] Betts was charged as an adult and spent more than eight years in prison (including fourteen months in solitary confinement),[3] where he completed high school and began reading and writing poetry.

Speaking at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in 2016, he said: "I was in solitary confinement.... You could call out for a book and someone would slide one to you. Frequently, you would not know who gave it to you. Somebody slid The Black Poets edited by Dudley Randall. In that book I read Robert Hayden for the first time, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton. I saw the poet as not just utilitarian but as serving art. In a poem you can give somebody a whole world. Before that, I had thought of being a writer, writing mostly essays and maybe, one day, a novel. But at that moment I decided to become a poet."[2]

In prison, he was renamed Shahid, meaning "witness".[2]

Education, writing, and activism after prison

After serving an eight year prison term,[3] Betts found a job working at Karibu Books in Bowie, Maryland. At the store, he was eventually promoted to store manager and founded a book club for African American boys, while attending Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland.[4] He later became a teacher of poetry in Washington, DC,[5] and in 2013, he was teaching an intro to non-fiction course at Emerson College.{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}

Betts is also the national spokesman for the Campaign for Youth Justice, and speaks out for juvenile-justice reform. He also visits detention centers and inner-city schools, and talks to at-risk young people.[6]

In 2012, President Barack Obama announced that Betts had been named a member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.[7]

In 2016, Betts graduated from Yale Law School and passed the Connecticut bar exam. In September 2017, the bar's Examining Committee recommended him for admission, after the bar had rejected his initial application for membership.[8][9] He is currently working on his Ph.D. in law at Yale.[10]

In 2018, he is working as a consultant for the podcast series "[https://www.npr.org/podcasts/589480586/caught Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice]", produced by WNYC, which explores cases of children and adolescents who find themselves in the criminal justice system, and the circumstances surrounding their lives and legal cases.

Recognition

Betts' honors include a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, the Holden Fellowship to attend the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College and a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.[11] He is a Cave Canem Workshop fellow, and was a full scholarship student at the University of Maryland, where he earned his B.A.[5]

He was a 2010 Soros Justice Fellow.[12]

Writing awards

In 2009, Shahid Reads His Own Palm won the Beatrice Hawley Award for poetry.[13]

In 2010, A Question of Freedom won an NAACP Image Award for non-fiction.[10]

In 2017, his Only Once I Thought About Suicide received the Israel H. Perez Prize for best student comment appearing in the Yale Law Journal.[10][14]

Publications

His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares,[5][15] Crab Orchard Review, and Poet Lore.[16]

Bibliography

{{Expand list|date=April 2015}}{{external media
|video1= [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h0exEEA5Bk Furious Flower presents R. Dwayne Betts], James Madison University, September 17, 2015
|video2= [https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-08-12-betts-freedom_N.htm "R. Dwayne Betts: A Mind Unconfined by Jail"], Craig Wilson, USA Today
|video3= Video- Reading & Interview- Reginald Dwayne Betts, USA Today
|audio1= [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112134942 Audio Interview: Ex-Convict Writes About 'A Question of Freedom"] Scott Simon, NPR
|audio2= "Audio Interview: "Coming of Age in Prison- Reginald Dwayne Betts", WAMU The Kojo Nnmadi Show
|audio3 = [https://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458901392/in-bastards-of-the-reagan-era-a-poet-says-his-generation-was-just-lost In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost'], Fresh Air, December 8, 2015
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Poetry

Collections

  • {{cite book |last=Betts |first= Reginald Dwayne|authorlink= |authormask= |title=Near Burn and Burden: a collection of poems |location= |publisher=Warren Wilson College |year=2010}}
  • {{cite book |last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask=1 |title=Shahid Reads His Own Palm |location= |publisher=Alice James Books |year=2010|isbn= 9781882295814}}
  • {{cite book |last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |title=Bastards of the Reagan Era|location= |publisher=Stahlecker Selections|year=2015|isbn=9781935536659|authormask=1}}[17]

List of selected poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
What we know of horses2011last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask= |date=2011 |title=What we know of horses |journal=River Styx |volume=85 |issue= |pages=37–38 |url=http://www.riverstyx.org/content/pdf/RS85_Betts.pdf |accessdate=2015-04-20}}last= |first= |authormask= |editor-last=Henderson |editor-first=Bill |title=The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the small presses 2013 |publisher=Pushcart Press |date=2013 |pages=471–473 |chapter=}}
A conversation2006last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask= |date=Spring 2006 |title=A Conversation |journal=Beltway Poetry Quarterly |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages= |url=http://www.washingtonart.com/beltway/betts.html |accessdate=2015-04-20}}
let me tell you bout the night i died2008last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask= |date=2008 |title=let me tell you bout the night i died |journal=The Drunken Boat |volume=8 |issue=III-IV |pages= |url=http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/dwaynebetts.html |accessdate=2015-04-20}}
Misunderstood2008last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask= |date=2008 |title=Misunderstood |journal=The Drunken Boat |volume=8 |issue=III-IV |pages= |url=http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/dwaynebetts.html |accessdate=2015-04-20}}
Soldier's song2008last=Betts |first=Reginald Dwayne |authorlink= |authormask= |date=2008 |title=Soldier's song |journal=The Drunken Boat |volume=8 |issue=III-IV |pages= |url=http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/dwaynebetts.html |accessdate=2015-04-20}}

Non-fiction

  • {{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |authormask= |title=A Question of Freedom: A memoir of learning, survival, and coming of age in prison |location= |publisher=Penguin |year=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noZS3qRgbVEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Reginald+Dwayne+Betts&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFnYKcwNLJAhUDPz4KHUEBDRMQ6AEILzAC#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn= 9781101133361}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Betts|first1=Reginald Dwayne|title=Only Once I Thought About Suicide|journal=Yale Law Journal Forum|date=2016|volume=125|page=222|url=http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/only-once-i-thought-about-suicide|accessdate=October 1, 2017}}

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-exchange-r-dwayne-betts-on-prison-poetry-and-justice |title=The Exchange: R. Dwayne Betts on prison, poetry, and justice |work=The New Yorker |first=Meredith|last=Blake|date=November 30, 2010|accessdate=December 8, 2015}}
2. ^1 Andre Bagoo, "From prison to poetry", Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, May 30, 2016.
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-decade-after-prison-a-poet-studies-for-the-bar-exam|title=A Decade After Prison, a Poet Studies for the Bar Exam|last=Gonzalez|first=Elisa|date=2016-06-30|website=The New Yorker|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-08-05}}
4. ^1 {{cite news|first=Lonnae O'Neal|last= Parker|URL=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100101160.html|title=From Inmate to Mentor, Through Power of Books|publisher=Washington Post|date= 2 October 2006|accessdate=25 September 2017}}
5. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://pshares.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-voices-reginald-dwayne-betts.html|title=New Voices: Reginald Dwayne Betts|last=Berg|first=Laura Van Den|date=2008-12-11|website=Ploughshares Blog|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220070318/http://pshares.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-voices-reginald-dwayne-betts.html|archive-date=2009-02-20|dead-url=|access-date=2017-08-05}}
6. ^Craig Wilson, [https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-08-12-betts-freedom_N.htm "R. Dwayne Betts: A Mind Unconfined by Jail"], USA Today, August 12, 2009.
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/26/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts|title=President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts|last=White House|accessdate=March 15, 2014}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/nothing-will-ever-be-enough|title=Nothing Will Ever Be Enough|last=Robinson|first=Nathan J.|date=2017-08-04|work=Current Affairs|access-date=2017-08-05|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=Dave|title=Felon who graduated from Yale allowed to become lawyer|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/09/29/felon-who-graduated-from-yale-allowed-to-become-lawyer|accessdate=October 1, 2017|work=Boston.com|agency=Associated Press|date=September 29, 2017}}
10. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/degree-programs/graduate-programs/phd-program/phd-candidate-profiles/dwayne-betts|title=Dwayne Betts - Yale Law School|website=law.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-08-05}}
11. ^{{cite web|last=Radcliffe|title=Reginald Dwayne Betts|url=http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/reginald-dwayne-betts}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-exchange-r-dwayne-betts-on-prison-poetry-and-justice|title=The Exchange: R. Dwayne Betts on Prison, Poetry, and Justice|website=The New Yorker|accessdate=2015-12-17}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.hawleysociety.org/beatrice-hawley-award/|title=Beatrice Hawley Award|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=The Society of the Hawley Family|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-08-05}}
14. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/only-once-i-thought-about-suicide|title=Only Once I Thought About Suicide|last=Betts|first=Reginald Dwayne|date=2016-01-15|work=Yale Law Journal|access-date=2017-08-05|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
15. ^[https://www.pshares.org/authors/reginald-dwayne-betts Reginald Dwayne Betts] at Ploughshares.
16. ^Author Page > Reginald Dwayne Betts, Alice James Books.
17. ^{{cite news|title=Review: 'Bastards of the Reagan Era,' a Book of Poetry|work=The New York Times|author= Michiko Kakutani|date= October 12, 2015|quote=Mr. Betts captures the stark brutality of prison life with chilling, matter-of-fact descriptions, and he evokes the hopelessness that accompanies many prisoners' belief that all narratives end "with cuffs around all wrists, again."|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/books/review-bastards-of-the-reagan-era-a-book-of-poetry.html?_r=0 }}
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