In the wake of a stunning and destabilizing presidential election, questions abound: How should the literary community of writers and readers respond? How do authors of fiction and poetry approach their vocation at this political moment? To what extent can (and should) activism intersect with art? What role can literature play when faced with an administration that is at best dismissive and at worst hostile toward the arts? Four writers—novelist and memoirist ANDRE DUBUS III, poets STEPH BURT and REGIE GIBSON, and…