Saturday Review: “Poems of Hope and Redemption” a review by James W. Kirkland of Scott Owens’s Prepositional (2022) in NCLR Online Fall 2023.
With poems like “The Problem with Deciding on a Single Object to Follow the Preposition”….
North Carolina Literary Review gratefully announces receiving two grants toward community engagement from two prestigious state-wide funders
Friday from the Archives: “Last Retreat to Topsail Island” by Mark Smith-Soto from NCLR 22 (2013). We at NCLR were saddened to learn of the passing of long-time friend and poet, Mark Smith-Soto, early in November.
Our 2023 and 2024 Feature Editors will be at SAMLA 95!
Saturday Review: “A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of David Wright Faladé’s Black Cloud Rising (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “Renaissance Man: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton” by George Hovis, from NCLR Issue 26 (2017) Congratulations to the renowned author, professor, musician, and artist Clyde Edgerton on being the 2023 Caldwell Award Recipient from NC Humanities
Saturday Review: “Moving Bodies, Healing Places” a review by J.S. Absher
Joseph Bathanti. Light at the Seam (2022)
Joseph Mills. Bodies in Motion (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers” by Lu Ann Jones from NCLR Issue 7 (1998) To honor Fred, Margaret, and all the teachers in all of our issues, we are highlighting Jones’ article about her class using oral history techniques to document teachers’ stories from across the state.
Saturday Review: “The Forgotten South, Remembered” a review by Dale Neal of Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks’ Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession (2021)
Friday from the Archives: “Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman” by Robert Siegal, introduced by Stuart W. Sanderson, with Lorraine Hale Robinson, from NCLR Issue 13 (2004) We would love to have more writings by and about Hispanic and Latinx North Carolina authors.