Rutgers Book Initiative watch party: “Felon: A play; A discourse” by poet and scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts.

Join colleagues for an in-person discussion of “Felon: A play; A discourse” by poet and scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts.

Felon: An America Washi Tale is about re-imagining paper. A solo performance that begins with the pages of a book being slid into a cell, traverses stoves made of toilet paper, kites from a father, handwritten affidavits, legal complaints, handmade paper, certificates of pardon, & 1,000 squares fashioned from the clothing of men serving life sentences, the variety of papers that reveals what is possible and burdened by prison.

There will be no advance reading. Instead, we’ll view a simulcast of Betts’s lecture/performance “Felon: A Play, a Discourse” at the Harvard Design School, followed by an open discussion of paper, incarceration, and the book. RSVP: leah.price@rutgers.edu

Time: 5 October, 6:15-8:30pm

Location:

CCA Seminar Room

15 Seminary Place

Rutgers Academic Building

West Wing, Room 6107