NCLR 2004

North Carolina’s Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore
by E. Thomson Shields

“There’s always a story to tell”: Creating Tradition on Qualla Boundary
by Karen J. McKinney

Wachovia Wilds
a poem by Allison Hedge Coke

Adantis, Land of Melded Cultures: An Interview with Marly Youmans
by Bes Stark Spangler

“The Sea as Destination”
a poem by Philip Arnold
art by Tim Bruce

“anything but surrender”: Preserving Southern Appalachia in the Works of Ron Rash
by Anna Dunlap Higgins

The Binding Ties between Women, their Art, and the Mountains
a review by Joyce Compton Brown

Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry
by Christina G. Bucher

clay; big hair, fat kitchen, lean loc; kodak moments; and burn cork bop
four poems by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
art by Shelton Bryant and Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Place in the Family
a poem by L. Teresa Church
art by John Biggers

Investigating Social Injustice: BarbaraNeely’s Blanche White Mysteries
by Ellen Arnold

Waiting for America and Isaac in Durham
two poems by Mendi Lewis Obadike
art by Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Wind Song and Rhythmic Feet
two poems by Lenard D. Moore
art by John Biggers and Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Actaeon and Diana
a poem by Alan Shapiro
photography by Frank Hunter

Out of the Diaspora: Alan Shapiro on Poetry, Community and Life in the South
an interview by Sheryl Cornett

Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman
by Robert Siegel; introduced by Stuart W. Sanderson with Lorraine Hale Robinson

“I was Pearl and my last name was Harbor”: Monique Thuy-Dong Truong’s “Kelly” and Ethnic Southern Memory
by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith

Yankees and Indians
an essay by Jennifer Vivekanand
photography and design by Jennifer Vivekanand

St-Paul-de-Vence and Water Street
two poems by Michael White
photography by Henry Stindt and Jim White

Doing Justice
an essay by Lee Zacharias
photography by Candice Drohan

On the Hinge
an essay by Meredith Anton
photography and design by Dana Ezzell Gay

Love Song, Gryllinae
a poem by Julie Kate Howard
art by Susan Luddeke

A Revisionist Perspective on the American Revolution in the South
a review of President Jimmy Carter’s The Hornet’s Nest
by Ed Piacentino

“attached to life at all four corners”
a review of new novels by Michael Malone and Isabel Zuber
by Kristina Knotts

Seeking and Surviving
a review of recent short story collections by Joe Ashby Porter, Kat Meads, and Deborah Cumming
by Sally Lawrence

Family Reunions of Words
a review of recent collections of creative nonfiction by Tony Earley and Rebecca McClanahan
by Maryscot Mullins

Talking Back; or, “an irreverent retort”
a review of Fred Chappell’s Backsass
by Michael Poteat

Tom and Betsy’s Family: Tobacco People, Memory, and Vernacular History
by Charles D. Thompson and Mary Williams Barnes
photography by Charles D. Thompson and Robert Puckett

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Rabb to Rust
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

NC Newsbriefs
by Maryscot Mullins