Reginald Dwayne Betts is a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellow. A poet, essayist, and memoirist, he is also the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads. Listen to Betts read the poem “Roadkill” from his latest collection, “Doggerel”:

April 08, 2026 - 16:35 UTC

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Mahogany L. Browne is a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellow. A writer, playwright, organizer, and educator, she is a 2022 Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow and inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center. Listen to Browne read from “I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love”:
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Demetrius “Meech” Buckley is a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellow. A poet and a creative nonfiction writer, his collection “Here Is Home” won Cave Canem’s 2021 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize. Listen to Buckley read from their memoir, a work-in-progress, “First Homes”:
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