Prison Poetry: A Fugitive Aesthetic?
Columbia University, Thursday, April 8, 2021: Register here
Thursday, April 8
Prison Poetry: A Fugitive Aesthetic?
Featuring: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Saidiya Hartman
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature
A conversation between Reginald Dwayne Betts (poet, memoirist, teacher, and author of his most recent collection of poetry "Felon"), and Saidiya V Hartman (University Professor, Columbia University) on how poetry works to express, capture, and open up the carceral experience.
Additional reading:
Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Felon: Poems on Bookshop.org
