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NCLR Online is an open access supplement to the 2013 print issue. Enjoy the special feature section of this electronic issue. Then click on the Next Issue tab above to see what we’ve got lined up for the 2013 print issue.

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NCLR Online 2013 Contents

North Carolina: A STATE OF CHANGE,
A CHANGING STATE

Orgullos, Chicanas, and Chilangos, Y’all:
Where Are North Carolina’s Latino/a Writers?

an essay by Joan Conwell

Stone-Bound and Fish Store Mural Relocated
two poems by Mark Smith-Soto
art by Luis German Ardila

Mountain Magic: An interview with Sarah Addison Allen
by Hal McDonald

Reflections of an Accidental Citizen of “the New South”
an essay by Nicole Nolan Sidhu

North Carolina, This Will Be the Last Poem
a poem by Samantha Lee Deal
art by Diana H. Bloomfield

The Shower
a short story by Ronald Jackson
art by Robert Tynes


Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

  • Homage to James Applewhite, 2012 Recipient of the Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
    presentation remarks by Jeffrey Franklin

  • World’s Shoulder, Turning; Autumnal Equinox;
    and Revisitings
    three poems by James Applewhite
    art by Tony Breuer, Louis St. Lewis, and Michael Dorsey
  • Gone but not Forgotten: Reminiscences of
    Family, Home, Love, and Loss

    Sally Rosen Kindred, No Eden
    John Thomas York, Cold Spring Rising
    a review by Melissa Edmundson Makala

    Banding Hummingbirds and Beggar’s-Lice
    two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
    art by Wayne Trapp

    Stuart Wright: The Badger of Old Street
    Eudora Welty: “A Sweet Devouring”
    James Dickey:
    “Barnstorming for Poetry” at ECU
    by Thomas E. Douglass
    art by Maurice Sendak and Robert Dance

    Unseen and The Names
    two poems by Fred Chappell
    art by Herb Jackson

    Doppelgangers: An Interior Dialogue
    Steve Mitchell, The Naming of Ghosts
    a review by Fred Chappell

    2012 Crittenden Award

    A Descent Beckoning
    Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent
    a review by Robert West

    Angelou also Inducted

    Personal Sin/Public History: Penance without Salvation
    Charles Dodd White, Sinners of Sanction County
    a review by Nicholas Ripatrazone

    His Story, History, and Home: Gary Neil Carden Receives North Carolina Award for Literature
    by Lorraine Hale Robinson

    The Regional Poet and the World
    Robert Morgan, October Crossing and Terroir
    Scott Owens, Something Knows the Moment
    and For One Who Knows How to Own Land

    a review by Karen K. Mason

    The Triumph of Human Spirit
    David S. Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom
    Bland Simpson, Two Captains from Carolina
    a review by Willie J. Harrell, Jr.

  • Roanoke Island Historical Association Receives
    Hardee-Rives Dramatic Arts Award
    presentation remarks by Bland Simpson
  • Learning Civil Rights-Era History Through Picture Books
    Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud, Belle,
    the Last Mule of Gee’s Bend

    Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Ruth and the Green Book
    a review by Gabrielle Brant Freeman

    2012 North Carolina AAUW Award

    “green life running wild”: Environmental Philosophy
    in Charles Frazier’s New Novel

    Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
    a review by Zackary Vernon

    John Lawson, Nature Writer, Inducted into the
    North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

    presentation remarks by Phillip Manning

    “Quickening,” from Fiction to Film: A Conversation with Liza Wieland and Mary Kate Monahan
    an interview by Tanya Nichols

    Entanglement
    a short story by Gregg Cusick
    art by Jon Kolkin

    Picking Blackberries on Yellow Mountain Road
    a poem by Richard Betz
    art by George Bireline

North Carolina Miscellany

  • “Have you found out how to be anything but young?”
    Catherine Carter, The Swamp Monster at Home
    Claudia Emerson, Secure the Shadow
    Katherine Soniat, The Swing Girl
    a review by John Hoppenthaler

    An “incorrigible flirt” and an “underground mission”
    Julie Suk, Lie Down with Me
    a review by Catherine Carter

    2012 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award

    Means of Survival
    Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Unaccountable Weather
    Leslie Williams, Success of the Seed Plants
    a review by Susan Laughter Meyers

    “O, multi-colored, multiform”
    Mike Smith, Multiverse
    a review by Leah Miranda Hughes

    Gloss and Glossolia: Poets of Wit and Transformation
    Michael McFee, That Was Oasis
    Daniel Nathan Terry, Waxwings
    a review by Jake Adam York

    A Giant in the Making: New Fiction from Susan Woodring
    Susan Woodring, Goliath
    a review by Tanya Long Bennett

    Josephine Humphreys Receives 2012 Thomas Wolfe Prize

    The Business of Dreaming
    a short story by Kathryn Etters Lovatt
    art by George Scott

     

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