In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost' : NPR. Reginald Dwayne Betts serves as a national spokesman for the Campaign for Youth Justice. Download Whole The Wedding Plan (2017) Movie. He is also the author of A Question of Freedom and Shahid Reads His Own Palm. He is also the author of A Question of Freedom and Shahid Reads His Own Palm.

Shortly thereafter, he was caught, sentenced as an adult and sent to an adult prison, where he served more than eight years, including one year in solitary at a supermax facility. I went to prison with grown men, and I went into what people readily acknowledge as a treacherous and a wild place.

He had always loved to read, but in prison, books — and writing — became a mental escape. One day, when he was in solitary confinement, a fellow prisoner slipped an anthology called The Black Poets under his cell door. After his release in 2. Yale University. He is also a poet and author.

His most recent book is a collection of poems called Bastards of the Reagan Era. Betts says the name of the book holds double meaning: . I think about my own life, I think about the life of people that's close to me, and I just recognize that we were .. And the gun I had was on safety, and I didn't even know how to operate the gun.

And so I think that at least in my situation, I knew that I wasn't going to shoot him. And I think that if he would've not open the door or ran, I would've probably been standing in the parking lot looking like a fool. But that doesn't negate the fear that he had, and that doesn't negate the sort of lack of empathy that I showed in that moment.

So if the question is 'What could lead me to that?' I think it's that sometimes you get into a place where you don't realize that your decisions have real ramifications in the present, and real ramifications for the future. Because honestly, if we had this conversation now, . But I was 1. 6, and I just did not think in the same way that I think as an adult. And because it was in the realm of possibilities that could happen .. Buy Layover (2017) The Movie On Dvd.

I was presented with the opportunity and I didn't have the wherewithal or the courage or the common sense to turn away. On why he pleaded guilty It's not that I was unaware of the fact that a 1.

But I just thought that I was wrong, and I was caught, and that the best thing for me to do was to admit being wrong and find a way to make amends. So even though I was read my Miranda rights, I wasn't thinking about the fact that by confessing, by talking to the police officers, that could lead to different charges being filed, that could take away some things that my lawyer might've done to maybe negotiate a plea deal. I didn't realize what would happen from that decision to talk. When I got locked up, I think, books became magic. Books weren't really magic when I was a child, they were just something that I . I thought it was important, but when I got locked up it became magic, it became a means to an end.

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It became the way in which I experienced the world, but more importantly, I think, it became the way in which I learned about what it means to be human, and to be flawed and to want things that you can't have. On connecting with poetry in solitary confinement The story about solitary confinement, I think, really is the way that I became a poet and a way that I broadened my horizons intellectually and I sort of diversified my reading. Because in solitary confinement you couldn't have books and you couldn't request books and you couldn't go to the library, but people would somehow find ways to get books into their cells. So it would be this rotating cycle of books that existed in solitary confinement. Somebody would leave a hole . One afternoon I asked for a book and said, 'Can somebody send me a book?' and somebody slid a book under my cell door, to this day I have no idea who sent it to me, but it was an anthology by Dudley Randall, it was called The Black Poets and that's the book that changed my life.

Read an excerpt of Bastards of the Reagan Era. On why he chose to go to law school When Howard . And so I decided to work on the civil side of things and I plan on doing employment discrimination work.

I plan on representing people in pardons. I plan on representing people on parole. I feel like doing that work is the kind of thing I could do and feel good about.