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