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Dwayne Betts

Dwayne Betts

writer, founder, YoungMenRead
Dwayne Betts is graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship. Shortly after his release from prison, The Washington Post published a feature article about him and a book club he founded for at-risk young men called YoungMenRead. He teaches poetry at several public schools in the D.C.  [more]