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number 31 2021
featuring
WRITERS WHO TEACH,
TEACHERS WHO WRITE
cover design Dana Ezzell Lovelace
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NCLR 2022 Contents [pending publication in june]
WRITERS WHO TEACH, TEACHERS WHO WRITE
What Comes First: Writer or Teacher?
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor
by Georgann Eubanks
Love from both of us to both of you”:
Select Letters from Peter Taylor to John Thompson, the Greensboro Years
by Michaux Dempster
Carolyn Kizer: Flamboyant Feminist at Chapel Hill
by Marian Janssen
“That’s how we learn”: Ben Fountain Talks with Student Veterans at East Carolina University
compiled and introduced by Anna Froula, with Sheena Eagan
"an artist's artist, y'all: weird, unique, and oh so smart and talented":
An Interview with Leah Hampton
by Christy Alexander Hallberg
photography by Bayard Wootten
"The business of writing and the work of reading": A Conversation with Wiley Cash
by Jim Coby
photography by Mallory Cash
"The last ghost is always the lies we're told":
An Interview with Khalisa Rae Thompson
by Maia L. Butler
an essay by Barbara Bennett
art by Dawn Surratt
When you know a demon’s real name; The narrative of stones;
and Campus, August evening, plague year
three poems by Catherine Carter
art by Ippy Patterson, Ben Nixon, and Anna G. Dean
James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem and art by Michael Loderstedt Dawn on the Watermen’s Dock
a poem by Paul Jones
art by Claude Howell
Invasive Pests
a short story by Settle Monroe
art by Tim Christensen
FLASHBACKS: ECHOES OF PAST ISSUES
Waxing Nostalgic
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor
You Laugh
a poem by Allen Tullos
art by Susan Harbage Page
Why I Believe Confession Booths Are Bathrooms
a poem by Janis Harrington
art by Tama Hochbaum
Ultimate Trip
the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize essay be Steve Mitchell
art by Tim Christensen
NORTH CAROLINA MISCELLANY
Miscellaneous Literary Treasures
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor
A Poem that Almost Got Away
introduced by James W. Clark, Jr.
Evening Hatch
by Frank Borden Hanes, Sr.
art by Fen Rascoe
The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Moon
the Doris Betts Fiction Prize story by Heather Bell Adams
art by Robert Rauschenberg