Reginald Dwayne Betts — Essay on Reentry
Poetry Unbound
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The Poetry of Reginald Dwayne Betts
The poet, Reginald Dwayne Betts, is writing as a black man who served a custodial sentence. He's critiquing way about a prison structure that is so lent towards incarcerating black men. There are so many scenes in this poem, and this can be a really helpful way sometimes to look at a poem and to break it down into scenes,. That doesn't work with every poem, but it really works with this poem.
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