DC Annual, DAY 2: Live Stage Interview with R. Dwayne Betts

Live readings from popular and up-and-coming authors are hosted at the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage in the exhibit hall at ALA Annual Confernce, presented by the ALA Public Programs Office.

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, this year's LIVE! Stage featured a special focus on poetry. Readings from many established and emerging poets represent the range of poetry, from rhymes formed on the page, to the rhythms of the spoken work—poems that are sensuous and sensory, witty and wicked, poems that come alive when read by their creators

ProgrammingLibrarian.org presents a reading by R.Dwayne Betts from A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison at the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage.

R. Dwayne Betts, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (Avery/Penguin). Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband, the father of a young son and a poet. Betts won a 2010 NAACP Image Award. He has been awarded the Holden Fellowship from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, the Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute, a Cave Canem Fellowship and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers'

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[shoshana2025]

you put tomatoes on my sandwhich, You A racist!!

[shoshana2025]

well dewayne. i honestly think its great. anything that keeps you bouncing a ball and scrathcing on a wall and not attacking Jews or their lesser is good.

[shoshana2025]

lets hear more about your failure as a criminal and success in the house.

[lisaepstein2000]

Ok homie maybe we got off to a bad start.

you go first.

[lisaepstein2000]

Come on homie! zero to race shield in 2 seconds?

I havent said anything racist.

best wishes on your writing. Its not to late!

Jesus loves you! Mossad loves you! I love you!

[lisaepstein2000]

I have made no racist comments. You might someday realize dropping that accusation doesnt help your writing.

Well I dare say you may not know the meaning of compassion and humatity until youve been in a few lines of work other than the one you chose.

But, Homie! If you keep paying attention to my commentary it will advance your writing skills far above that extravagant introduction to marxism you got up on that mountain with all those talentless, white guilt caucasions.

[Walkingcedar2006]

@lisaepstein2000

If you would spend more time being a real human being instead of making racist comments, you'd be a far better human. Instead, you live in a nation that gives you protection from the rest of the world, and you are a Nazi-style racist, sexist, lowest-common-denominator-styl­e person. You do no justice to Jews or to Israel, nor shall you ever. This is why so many people are anti-Semitic. You are a prime example.

[lisaepstein2000]

Author? the only thing this guy authored was spray painting his street name on the side of a Wal-MArt:

" G-Lock "

groove on brother! Your vocabulary is fly!

[lisaepstein2000]

Hilarious. An up and coming writer? He's an up an coming crack addict. Nobody reads the shit from Breadloaf because that marxist-communist elitist agency.

Career as a writer? hes spent his entire life on welfare. Wheres the career? He's smart enough not to get too uppity about the remaining white infrastructure giving him a vacation.

Hes also a very good poet. Its so cool to have class and listen to colored people!

I love Breadloaf!