i was obsessed with my own suffering, right? And i had all, you know, the cir said o for freckled face who couldn't win the trust of fist of the other cats werh his precise talk and innocent grin. So that's what made me want to be a poet,. cause it made me feel like, and i got all this in 30, forty lines though, it wasn't a dissertationand so I'm not sure how many people have read these poems but they're out there. As a poet, is like not, if you ask me for something, nees to be in my head. This is like your duty, almost. It's
Author, lawyer, and poet Dwayne Betts talks about his time in prison and the power of reading with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Betts is the founder of the Million Book Project, which aims to put a small library of great books in 1,000 U.S. prisons. Betts discusses his plans for the project and how reading helped him transform himself.