Colley reviews Tucker
Saturday Review: “Tripping on the Twelve Steps” a review by Sharon Colley of Bewilderness by Karen Tucker (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
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Mountain(top) Poetry: NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin
Friday from the Archives: “what poetry can do and how it can do it”: An Interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin by James Smith from NCLR 16 (2007)
Have you submitted to either of our April poetry contests yet? If your written poem is chosen by our group of first-pass readers, it will then go to our long-standing Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin for review.
FREE BOOKS! (with purchase)
We are preparing for our closet cleanout/issue inventory next week, which seems like a good time to mail out copies of back issues to NCLR… Read More »FREE BOOKS! (with purchase)
My First S.W.O.T.
In the current climate’s emphasis upon “pragmatic” programs of study, which Threatens perceived impractical subjects like creative writing and literature, ECU is providing Opportunities for students interested in these subjects…
Smith reviews Rowland
Saturday Review: “The Stories We Tell – And Don’t Tell” a review by Julia Ridley Smith of Inside the Wolf by Amy Rowland (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
The Sensibility of Poet Betty Adcock
Friday from the Archives: “Working With The Wiggle: An Interview With Betty Adcock” by James Smith from NCLR 18 (2009)
“Betty Adcock’s work often suggests a struggle with words, an attempt to make them do something, go someplace, for the first time.”
Trayers reviews deGramont
Saturday Review: “An Agatha Christie Mystery – NOT Written By Agatha Christie”
a review by Shane Trayers of The Christie Affair (2023) by Nina de Gramont.
NCLR’s Debut Spring Issue Continues Focus on Disability Literature
North Carolina Literary Review has just released its debut spring issue, making NCLR a quarterly journal in its 32nd year.
Poetry as Autobiography
Friday from the Archives: “Reconciliation and Return: A.R. Ammons’s Poetry as Autobiography” by Ted Olsen from NCLR 15 (2006)
by Abby Trzepacz
Both 2024 NCLR Poetry Competitions Open
During the month of April, the North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for both written and performance poetry contests from NC poets.