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"NCLR has just quietly gone about its business of making itself arguably the most important literary journal in the state."—Richard Krawiec

Ethnic North Carolina

• North Carolina's Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore, by E. Thomson Shields
• "There's always a story to tell": Creating Tradition on Qualla Boundary, by Karen J. McKinney
• Wachovia Wilds, a poem by Allison Hedge Coke
• Adantis, Land of Melded Cultures: An Interview with Marly Youmans, by Bes Stark Spangler
• "The Sea as Destination," a poem by Philip Arnold
  art by Tim Bruce
• "anything but surrender": Preserving Southern Appalachia in the Works of Ron Rash,
  by Anna Dunlap Higgins
• The Binding Ties between Women, their Art, and the Mountains, a review by Joyce Compton Brown
• Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry, by Christina G. Bucher
• clay; big hair, fat kitchen, lean loc; kodak moments; and burn cork bop, four poems by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
  art by Shelton Bryant and Sharon Barksdale-Worth
• Place in the Family, a poem by L. Teresa Church
  art by John Biggers

• Investigating Social Injustice: BarbaraNeely's Blanche White Mysteries, by Ellen Arnold
• Waiting for America and Isaac in Durham, two poems by Mendi Lewis Obadike
  art by Sharon Barksdale-Worth
• Wind Song and Rhythmic Feet, two poems by Lenard D. Moore
  art by John Biggers and Sharon Barksdale-Worth
• Actaeon and Diana, a poem by Alan Shapiro
  photography by Frank Hunter
• Out of the Diaspora: Alan Shapiro on Poetry, Community and Life in the South, an interview by Sheryl Cornett
• Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman, by Robert Siegel; introduced by Stuart W. Sanderson with Lorraine Hale Robinson
• "I was Pearl and my last name was Harbor": Monique Thuy-Dong Truong's "Kelly" and Ethnic Southern Memory, by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith
• Yankees and Indians, an essay by Jennifer Vivekanand
  photography and design by Jennifer Vivekanand

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Creative Writing

• St-Paul-de-Vence and Water Street, two poems by Michael White
  photography by Henry Stindt and Jim White
• Doing Justice, an essay by Lee Zacharias
  photography by Candice Drohan

• On the Hinge, an essay by Meredith Anton
  photography and design by Dana Ezzell Gay
• Love Song, Gryllinae, a poem by Julie Kate Howard
  art by Susan Luddeke

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Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

• "in the kitchen"; or, The Things I Might Have Learned from Ed Dorn, by Bill Morris

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Food Finds

• A View from the Kitchen: The Other Side of the Swinging Door, by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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Book Reviews

• A Revisionist Perspective on the American Revolution in the South, a review of President Jimmy Carter's The Hornet's Nest, by Ed Piacentino
• "attached to life at all four corners," a review of new novels by Michael Malone and Isabel Zuber, by Kristina Knotts
• Seeking and Surviving, a review of recent short story collections by Joe Ashby Porter, Kat Meads, and Deborah Cumming, by Sally Lawrence

• Family Reunions of Words, a review of recent collections of creative nonfiction by Tony Earley and Rebecca McClanahan, by Maryscot Mullins
• Talking Back; or, "an irreverent retort," a review of Fred Chappell's Backsass, by Michael Poteat

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North Carolina Writers

• Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Rabb to Rust, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
• NC Newsbriefs, by Maryscot Mullins

• Tom and Betsy's Family: Tobacco People, Memory, and Vernacular History, by Charles D. Thompson and Mary Williams Barnes
  photography by Charles D. Thompson and Robert Puckett

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