Reginald Dwayne Betts
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On white supremacist vegetables and watchful eyes.
There have always been watchful eyes on our farmers market — it’s down the street from the county jail.
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On power and dignity in defeat.
Winning is pretty easy. It takes effort to get there, but once we’ve done it, most people can act with grace. It reveals more about a person’s character to see how they handle defeat. In the Christian bible, Jesus is a more compelling character than Yahweh. Jesus faces adversity, which sometimes he accepts calmly –…
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On Poetry: Reginald Dwayne Betts’s “Bastards of the Reagan Era.”
Betts’s stark poetry documents our nation failing to offer sincere “correction” at its correctional facilities.
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