Do You Know What You're Doing in the Solo Show?

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I want to go into a prison and do the show and entice people for what they will get from inside of a book. It's just so beautiful. Nothing to say. I was going to ask you about names but forget it. Did you read that? Did you just recite that from heart by heart. It's actually in my show. So it's like 50 50.

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.