Poetry is hard to understand until you've delved into it, he says. The speaker in the poem was telling a story that showed self-awareness of conditions of confinement which i just hadn't seen anywhere. H went on to talk about his desire to be a poet and what made him want to do so.
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.