reginald dwayne. that's referred to by the new york book review as a powerful work of lyric, art and de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. reginald dwayne betts is poetry collection felon won the acp image award, the american book award and was finalist for the 2019 los angeles times book prize. also the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir he received the 2019 national magazine award for his new york times magazine essay about his journey from prison inmate to becoming a of wales yale school and an attorney. his other honors include a guggenheim fellowship, a 2021 macarthur genius grant, and a radcliffe fellowship from harvard. he's the founder executive director of freedom reads a non not for profit institution devoted to greater access to literature in prison. dwayne joins us tonight with his latest redaction created in collaboration with visual. visual artist titus capper. redaction is a multimedia examination of the relationship between and incarceration in america, specifically addressing the issue of cash bail referred to by its authors as a journey through words and images meant to trouble. one review calls it a brillia

reginald dwayne. that's referred to by the new york book review as a powerful work of lyric, art and de force indictment of the carceral industrial state. reginald dwayne betts is poetry collection felon won the acp image award, the american book award and was finalist for the 2019 los angeles times book prize. also the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir he received the 2019 national magazine award for his new york times magazine essay about his journey from prison inmate to becoming a of wales yale school and an attorney. his other honors include a guggenheim fellowship, a 2021 macarthur genius grant, and a radcliffe fellowship from harvard. he's the founder executive director of freedom reads a non not for profit institution devoted to greater access to literature in prison. dwayne joins us tonight with his latest redaction created in collaboration with visual. visual artist titus capper. redaction is a multimedia examination of the relationship between and incarceration in america, specifically addressing the issue of cash bail referred to by its authors as a journey through words and images meant to trouble. one review calls it a brillia

welcome, everybody, and welcome our guests, reginald dwayne betts. we have the opportunity to have a conversation tonight. we just realized that we go way. we first met in without knowing that we were meeting each other in 2008 in detroit, where i'm technically or what i own as my hometown. it was my first poetry reading. it was your first poetry reading. and it was well, less people than tonight. but then we went to dinner afterwards. it was all worth it. yeah. so welcome. thank you for being here. thank for making thank you for this book. i thought we'd have a little bit of a conversation about book tonight and how this beauty started. cool. so it's a pleasure. yes. to get the book. you got to show and tell. but this would be like like when you would go to read when you were a kid and, they would show you pictures because these pictures. so i'll get to show you some pictures. exactly. tell us a little bit how this collaboration started. how did you meet titus? how did it all start? it's interesting, actually, because it's the way that we met, but t

your reginald dwayne betts it's been a beautiful night, an intimate night if you will will, a dreamy night. thank you. thank you for sharing your love with us tonight. we appreciate you. my pleasure. thank you, guys for coming. joining us now on is author richard. here is his book. it's called go big the marketing secrets of richard, a viguerie. mr. viguerie, what do you do for a living living? my mother went to her grave a few years ago, not really understanding what did. i was fortunate. back in. 1960s, early sixties to pioneer political direct mail. people have been raising money for a long time and they've been raising it money through the mails for charities, churches, etc. nobody could combine the two politics and the mails. and i did that in the early 60. for about 20 years, i had no competitors. and i went out there and and helped the conservative movement. and i can a case that without direct mail would be no conservative movement worthy of the name. when i did my pioneering work in the sixties, the left wasn't doing. now they're doing a better job than the are. have you alw

what more any of us eggs at a desk thank so much thank philadelphia for coming out to your reginald dwayne betts it's been a beautiful night, an intimate night if you will will, a dreamy night. thank you. thank you for sharing your love with us tonight. we appreciate you. my pleasure. thank you, guys for coming. and now i am delighted to introduce tonight speakers philip is the white burkett miller, professor of history at university of virginia, where he has also served dean of the graduate school and director of the miller center. his scholarly work has on critical episodes in american and world history. he has been a member of the defense policy board for defense ashton carter and a member of the board of the bill and melinda gates foundation and 2020 he was elected a member of the american academy of diplomacy joining him on our digital stage this evening. our coauthors kendall hoyt and dr. richard j. hatcher. kendall hoyt, an assistant professor at gisela school of medicine at. and a senior lecturer at the third school of engineering at dartmouth college, where she teaches courses on biosec

what more any of us eggs at a desk thank so much thank philadelphia for coming out to your reginald dwayne betts it's been a beautiful night, an intimate night if you will will, a dreamy night. thank you. thank you for sharing your love with us tonight. we appreciate you. my pleasure. thank you, guys for coming. i am going to skip right to what dorothy roberts said, because dorothy roberts was one of our speakers when she came here to present book torn apart. this is what dorothy once again, daniel hatcher powerful exposes how government systems operate and extractive part of the industry motivated by profit rather than justice, is our opening book is essential for understanding causal system mechanics and for working to hope that we're going to get into lot of things with this book. and i wait to get into it. daniel hatcher is professor of law at the university baltimore, where he teaches civil affairs and cleric in which students represent low income clients. you guys what i'm talking about not just learning, but acting. all right. he is the author of in addition to the nice book, the profits