The idea that you could write those words on paper and someone would actually understand them is and profoundly human. I don't think you could argue this really nothing more human than that. And so it was like, Oh, this is perfect because the reduction forms, they were based on these class action lawsuits where people were challenging. They didn't pay court fees, or it couldn't pay low level bill, right? So we do this project and me and him are just messing around, and we meet with Sarah Suzuki at she's a curator she works at MoMA at the Museum of Modern Art,. We just go to talk to about the project in January 2019 maybe. This is not like anything
Dwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry under his cell door. What happened next is an astounding story of transformation: from desperation to the discovery of beauty, even behind bars. Listen as the lawyer, prison reform advocate, and award-winning poet explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts why he's on a mission to bring books--and beauty--into prisons. They also discuss Betts's latest book, Redaction, a collaboration with the artist Titus Kaphar.