R. Dwayne Betts founded YoungMenRead, a book club for at-risk young men, shortly after he was released from prison. A published poet who teaches poetry at several public schools in the D. C. metro area, he is also a graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship.

Books by R. Dwayne Betts

A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

by R. Dwayne Betts

A Question of Freedom is at once a tour of the parallel universe occupied by black men in America, an exposé of the justice system’s grave shortcomings, and a morality tale. But, most of all, it is a beautifully, brutally honest memoir about one imprisoned boy’s harrowing journey towards freedom and manhood.