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Spring 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 2 • Poetry |

Elegy with a City in It

By Reginald Dwayne Betts

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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 of Freedom. Currently, he is an Emerson Fellow at New America.

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