Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reading Date: Thursday, August 31, 2017
- Welcome
- Introduction
- "Elephants in the Fall"
- "For the City That Nearly Broke Me" ("A woman tattoos...")
- "The Invention of Crack"
- "Elegy With a RIP Shirt Turning Into the Wind"
- "For the City That Nearly Broke Me" ("Stress this...")
- "At the End of Life, A Secret"
- "Mother"
- "What We Know of Horses"
- Question and Answer Session
Welcome-26527
by Hannah Ensor
Introduction-26529
by Grace Gámez
"Elephants in the Fall"-26531
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"For the City That Nearly Broke Me" ("A woman tattoos...")-26533
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"The Invention of Crack"-26535
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"Elegy With a RIP Shirt Turning Into the Wind"-26537
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"For the City That Nearly Broke Me" ("Stress this...")-26539
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"At the End of Life, A Secret"-26541
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
"Mother"-26543
Uncollected.
"What We Know of Horses"-26545
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Bastards of the Reagan Era. New York: Four Way Books, 2015.
Question and Answer Session-26547
Recording begins after the first question has been asked, at the beginning of Betts's first answer.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Reginald Dwayne Betts reads from his poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015), along with one new poem.
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