Reginald Dwayne Betts is the father of two sons, Micah and Miles. He is the author of the poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era and the memoir A Question of Freedom. Currently, he is an Emerson Fellow at New America.
All of This Is True
Sept/Oct 2020
[Introduction]
“When a Black man dies, I go looking for him inside the body of another Black / man” writes Starr Davis to begin her poem “Mourning Sex.” And I wanted […]
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
Parable of the Groundhog
At the Cut—a prison where cities get lost to time— everyone knows the story of the groundhog. People remember who told them— the damn rodent that could climb. Or at […]
Poetry
Spring 2013
Crimson
When they found his body today, All forty-seven of his years drowned In a pool he paid for with blood, I thought Of my brother. He has life. And Rodney […]
Poetry
Spring 2013
Elegy with a City in It
There are men awed by blood, lost in the black of all that is awful: think crack and aluminum. Odd what time steals, or steals time: black robes, awful nights […]
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts is the father of two sons, Micah and Miles. He is the author of the poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era and the memoir A Question […]