Poetry, and Law, and Life

Elisa Gonzalez writes about Reginald Dwayne Betts, law graduate (Yale Law, 2016), poet (Shadid Reads His Own Palm, Alice James, 2010, and Bastards of the Reagan Era, Four Way Press, 2015), and memoirist (A Question of Freedom, Penguin, 2009, about his years in prison), who is now prepping for the bar exam. Mr. Betts discusses the intersection of poetry and law, and the long road that has led him to both. Read her piece here, in the New Yorker.