literature

For decades, Joy Harjo has challenged what it means to be a poet. The multifaceted author, musician and playwright was the first Indigenous person to serve as U.S. poet laureate.

Award-winning Navajo writer and Arizona State University professor emerita Laura Tohe was recently appointed Arizona poet laureate. She's the second-ever person to serve in the role that's been vacant for seven years.

Austin-based writer Joanna Klink reads her piece, "3 Bewildered Landscapes, " inspired by getting lost in the wilderness while backpacking. The ordeal created unsettled feelings of desperation and strangeness.

N. Scott Momaday has died at age 89 after becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist.

Latino activists say they hope the controversy around the novel "American Dirt" brings more attention to recent and overlooked works by Latino…