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 ERASE? To erase diverse points of view, some American writers are having their creative works rewritten well after having been published By CMarie Fuhrman   ...

  Joy Harjo joined OU English professor Jake Skeets for a conversation about Native American writers and literature in Copeland Hall’s Native Nations Center on Tuesday. Harjo , an author, musician and member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, served three terms as the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate , being the first Native American to hold the position. Harjo has received the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal , Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry and a National Humanities Medal . Harjo has written 10 poetry books and released seven music albums. Last year, Harjo received the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s   Lumine Lifetime Achievement Award . ‘We have to gather’: Joy Harjo discusses Native poetry, importance of diversity, equity and inclusion READ: https://www.oudaily.com/news/poet-joy-harjo-native-poetry-literature-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/article_c26a077b-0cd0-4f67-86f2-ff8d45cc5d46.html#1

H. Patricia Hynes 04/28/2025 Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No one wrote more powerfully about humans’ poisoning the Earth and its consequences than biologist Rachel Carson–with a focus on one contaminant, the pesticide DDT.  She traced its toxicity through the food chain of nature and the loss of beneficial insects and birds, and then warned of the ultimate destruction of the natural world.  Other environmental writers of the time were perplexed by the tidal wave of impact Silent Spring had compared to their books: it was both the accuracy of her science and the powerful beauty of her science writing.  The award-winning Silent Spring was translated into all the languages of the industrial world, influenced key environmental legislation and spurred the creation of the US EPA.  It was a gift that kept on giving. That was 1962.  In every aspect of industrial life, we are on the precipice of a much greater loss of Na...

Doubleday wins three-way auction for Eliana Ramage’s ‘expansive coming-of-age’ debut Rights Apr 23, 2025 by Heloise Wood Eliana Ramage © Leah Margulies Doubleday has acquired To the Moon and Back , the debut novel by Eliana Ramage, in a three-way auction. Editorial director Bobby Mostyn-Owen acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein following a three-way bidding war, on behalf of Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company. Doubleday will publish in hardback in February 2026. Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press will publish in the US this autumn, as will Simon & Schuster Canada. The synopsis reads: “Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong. But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing in...