On October 8th at 4 PM EST.
Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts will read from his most recent collection, Felon, and discuss the ways in which incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people are left out of conversations about Democracy. This event will be an opportunity to consider the intersections between free speech, disenfranchisement, and mass incarceration. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.
Co-sponsored by the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester, the Prison Creative Arts Project, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.
You must register in order to attend. The event is free and open to the public. Contact mqr@umich.edu with any accessibility requests. Reserve your place and register to attend here.Â
To order the Fall 2020 special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, guest edited by Reginald Dwayne Betts, is available for pre-order now.
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS is the author of four books. His latest collection of poetry, Felon, was published in October 2019 by W.W. Norton. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Emerson Fellow at New America, and a Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.
