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Visiting Writers Series: Reginald Dwayne Betts

Portrait of Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts will be visiting Kalamazoo Valley as a part of our Visiting Writers Series.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer and the Founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, an initiative to radically transform access to literature in prisons. Betts warmly invites students to join his series of events.

Nov. 12 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College | Student Meet and Greet
Nov. 12 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. | Discussion of "Doggerel" at the Western Michigan Multicultural Center, open to the public
Nov. 13 | 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Kalamazoo Institute of Arts | Tour of the KIA exhibition Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper with head curator Rehema Barber open to college students, faculty and staff only
Nov. 13 | 6 -7 p.m. | Kalamazoo Institute of Arts | Public Lecture: "The Ways that Paper Leads to Freedom."

Learn more: https://www.kiarts.org/betts/
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