The Retrospective on Titus's Poetry

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The book has all new poems for me about 4050 poems. It has all the redaction pieces in it and it has a bunch of tituses work there. I was really proud of it and away because I'm like I said, you know, I went into this prison and I had my four books. And so we did all of these like subtle things even in the book,. One of the pages we considered a book that the third exhibit of redaction is just to say that when you hold it it's like we like to believe that holding it.

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.