NCLR 1996 – North Carolina Literary Review

Featuring Carolina Cats and Their Writers

Cover art by Hayes Henderson

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Features

Cherokee Rebirth
by MariJo Moore

Cherokee Voices: Poems, a Play, and Art
by MariJo Moore, Rachel Armachain, Cory Blankenship, L. Gina Canter, Sunale Crowe, Kathy Douglas, Joehli, Jance Jaynes, Monica Herbold, Sunshine Long, Bo Taylor, Nehemiah Toineeta, and Kelli Walkingstick

Two Poems by Charles Baudelaire
translated by Peter Makuck

“Time and the Smell of the Earth”:
Seamus Heaney Returns to the Land of Henry Pearson
by Thomas E. Douglass

Peter Taylor: The Genial Mentor
by Fred Chappell

Freud Checks In: The “Oedipus” in Peter Taylor’s Reservations:
A Love Story
by Richard L. Kurtz

Blood Mountain, seven poems for Fred Chappell
by Kathryn Stripling Byer
photographs by Louranne Watley

Flat Rock
by A.R. Ammons

The 1995 Tryon Festival and a Conversation with Martin Gardner
by William Harmon

The True, Only, and Most Secret Entrance to Hog Heaven
by Jonathan Williams
photograph by Roger Manley

Richard Halliburton and Thomas Wolfe: When Youth Kept Open House
by Gerry Max

The Royal Road to Carolina
by Andy Turner

Inglis Fletcher’s African Adventure: “Good Journeyings in This Our Land”
by Sarah Wooten Pollock

Aunt Becky’s Way
by Mary Kratt

Seven Haiku
by Lenard D. Moore

“A War Prayer,” from Psalms
paintings by Kent Williams

The Story of a Campaign that Failed: A Narrative to Accompany “Shelling of Ft. Anderson, March 14th, 1863, Composed by Dr. Sutherland”
by Donald E. Collins

Smoke, Hog-Wild Hauling
by Jake Grant

Carolina Cats and Their Writers

“Our family, writers all, always had cats and by the time I was five, we had adopted Ragmop, a sweet long-haired Persian from the country, rechristened, Sweet Pea, who became unofficially, it seemed, the mother of all North Carolina writers’ cats. As prolific at producing kittens as my parents were with newspaper stories, magazine articles, and poems, Sweet Pea and we became a sort of team sending out furry little balls of inspiration to writers throughout the state. . . . For the next 20 years or so, writers would update us with stories and newspaper columns of our cats’ antics and how they had affected so many people’s lives.” —Talmadge Ragan