Book cover for Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear by Rita Dove and Joy Harjo

Truth to Power

Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear

2017 Released
360 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Cutthroat, a Journal of the ArtsISBN 9780998622002

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts announces publication of a special collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, meant to address the rise in the public rhetoric

of hatred and fear, prompted by the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Writers from diverse cultures, genders, ethnic backgrounds and races

from all over the U.S. respond in poetry, fiction and nonfiction to social issues ranging from immigration, LGBT rights, women's rights, rights for people with disabilities, African American Rights, Indigenous American Rights and Latino rights, poverty, inequality, the attack on our natural environment and more.

Rita Dove

Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She has been awarded many literary and academic honours, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 and the 1996 National Humanities Medal.

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Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.

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