Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Reginald Dwayne Betts: Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 112
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Black Poets
Buy on Amazon"But yo, somebody sent me a book, and I ended up getting this book called The Black Poets, and it changed my life. The first poem I read by Etheridge Knight was called 'For Freckle Face Gerald'—it had a line in it that says 16 years hadn't done a good job on his voice—and it talked about how the 160 okay ends up in prison and ends up being raped, and I'm reading this poem, and it's people that are dealing with this in the prison that I'm locked up in right."