number 20 2011 Contents

Environmental Writing in North Carolina

“breaking down walls”: An Interview with David Gessner, by Dominique Marshall
art by Joan Mansfield

If sky is skin, then what is wind? and Island Child,
two poems by Anna Elkins
art by Romare Bearden

Driving from Columbia, a poem by James Applewhite
art by Kelly L. Adams

The Constant, Haunting Music of the Geese, an essay by David Cecelski
photography by Edward T. Smith

Crumbling the Hummingbird, The Snow’s Already Falling, What’s Left Us, Weighing the Difference, and Lately I Begin with Birds, five poems by Brian Hendrickson
photography by Jon Kolkin

An Imperfect Marriage: Thoughts on Being Faithful to
Home, an essay by Jan DeBlieu
photography by Edward T. Smith

Work in the Morning and Renovation, two poems by Valerie Nieman
art by Annie Hogan

One North Florida, a poem by B. Landrex Outlaw
art by John Maggio

Cashie River Days, an essay by Bland Simpson
photography by Ann Cary Simpson

Asters and Goldenrod, two poems by Sally Rosen Kindred
art by John Littleton and Kate Vogel

Weeds, an essay by Janet Lembke
photography by Edward T. Smith

i forgive the spiders, a poem by doris davenport
art by Minnie Evans

Tobacco Rise, a poem by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
art by Joan Mansfield

What If More People Move to North Carolina?, a review by Susan Schmidt
photography by Rob Amberg, Scott Taylor,
and Michael Brantley

The Influx, Holy Ground, and In the Graveyard,
three poems by Catherine Carter
art by Jane Filer

Hunting for Camellias at Horseshoe Bend, an essay by Brent Martin
photography by Angela Faye Martin

Bending Back the Night, a poem by Julie Dunlop
art by Jean LeCluyse

Writing the Interior Landscape: An interview with
George Ellison, by Kathryn Stripling Byer
art by Elizabeth Ellison

I Called Them Trees, To Waste at Trees, What More?,
and Ligustrum, four poems by Gerald Barrax, Sr.
art by Jacob Lawrence

The Classical Ecopoetics of Fred Chappell’s Backsass
and Midquest, by George Hovis
art by Donald Sultan and photography by Rob Amberg

Spirit Country: The Voice of the Earth and Ron Rash’s
Southern Appalachia, by Jimmy Dean Smith

Call, a poem by Zelda Lockhart
art by Elaine Reed

Great Buzzards and Talking Hogs, Ghost Crabs and Goophered Grapevines, Sharecropping and Riverwriting: Species of North Carolina Environmental Literature, by Scott Hicks
photography by Sandra Carawan

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past ISSUES

• “memories, tapestries”: A.R. Ammons and his North Carolina Roots, a review of two new Ammons poetry collections, by Robert West

  Old North State Literary Treasures: A Guidebook and Two Anthologies, a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson    

  Other Voices, Other Worlds, a review of Warren Rochelle’s The Called, by F. Brett Cox

  Wars at Home and Abroad: An Appalachian Homecoming, a review of Charles Dodd White's new novel, by Ed Piacentino

North Carolina Miscellany

• The Long Voyage Home: Richard McKenna at Chapel Hill, by Thomas Douglass
• The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench, a short story
  by Richard McKenna
• Ain’t Gonna Turn Out to Be Nothing, a poem by Marty Silverthorne
  art by Angela Franks Wells
• As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea, the 2010 Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner, by Robert Wallace (Hear Robert read from the story)
  photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone
• Poetry Journals, Poetry Anthologies, and the Southern Poetry Review Anthology, a review by Jeffrey Franklin
• (Re)Discovering Guy Owen: A 40th Anniversary Edition of Journey for Joedel, a review by Casey Clabough
• Guitar Prostitute, a poem by Robert Hill Long
  photography by Edward T. Smith
• Michael Malone, Witness to the Times, an interview
  by Art Taylor
  illustrations by Allan Gurganus and Daniel Wallace
• Two Greensboro Novels Confront Loss, a review
  by Kristina Knotts
• Through Decades, Fresh Visions of Reality, a review
  of new poetry collectons by Sally Buckner
• Making the Biscuits, a poem by Terri Kirby Erickson
  art by Linda Foard Roberts