Davis Dunavin
Student ProducerDavis Dunavin grew up in the bootheel of Missouri and worked for the Southeast Missourian and Off! Magazine before moving to New York City in 2006, where he worked as a freelance writer and a bookstore clerk. He's a Masters student in Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and served as a Convergence Journalism teaching assistant at KBIA before launching the Word Missouri project in August. He lives in Columbia with his wife Elizabeth, coincidentally also a bookstore clerk and organizer of the Cold Reading poetry series at Get Lost Bookshop in downtown Columbia. When he's not there, he can sometimes be found leading a double life as a street musician.
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Expert commentary (in red) by Dr. Roy Fox, Professor of English Education at the University of Missouri-ColumbiaListen to the companion piece to this…
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When Republic High School in southwest Missouri removed two novels from its curriculum and library in July, it drew national attention and launched a…