Dwayne Betts (Photo Credit: macfound.org). As the story goes, Dwayne Betts didn't discover poetry in the usual way. After getting arrested at 16 years old for carjacking, he was sentenced to nine years in prison, charged as an adult despite his age. While in solitary confinement, someone slid a copy of 'The Black Poets' under … Continued
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