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Author and poet to host reading at FAU

University Press | February 18, 2016

Related Topics: Author, Prison, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Poet

After spending more than eight years in prison, Reginald Dwayne Betts will host a poetry reading with students and staff

Reginald Dwayne Betts’s reading will be presented by the FAU Department of English this Thursday, Feb. 18. Photo courtesy of FAU’s Department of English.

Award-winning author and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts is staging a reading at Florida Atlantic on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Majestic Palm Room.

After being charged with an armed carjacking at the age of 16, Betts spent over eight years in prison.

While there, he finished his General Educational Development test and broadened an appreciation for writing.

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