#  "Jethro's Corner" by Reginald Dwayne Betts 

 





February 14, 2025

 

 

"Jethro's Corner", a poem by Visiting Lecturer on English Reginald Dwayne Betts was featured in *The Atlantic*. An excerpt is included below:   
  
**I Maps**  
The corner of Ashmun & Grove & the sometimes  
When the only evidence is a map; the disappearing  
  
English of old: *plat*, a funky word that exists most  
In memory, meant *to make a plan or map of;*  
*To draw to scale; to plot*.  
  
A man who cannot read coordinates can still plot  
On his freedom. Imagine a rectangle on the oldest  
Map in these nine squares of geography  
  
Read more [here.](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/02/reginald-dwayne-betts-jethros-corner/681611/)



 

 

 



 

 

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