Poetry in Community: Jaki Shelton Green from 2016
Friday from the Archives: “The Deep Shovel: A Conversation with Jaki Shelton Green” by Amber Flora Thomas from NCLR Issue 25 (2016)
Devra Thomas
’22 Applewhite Prize Poetry Reading on Apr 11
Our 2022 Applewhite Poetry Prize winners and finalists will read online on April 11th, in partnership with NC Humanities.
Poet Meg Day To Judge 2023 Applewhite Contest
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Professor and Poet Meg Day will judge the annual James Applewhite Poetry Contest in April 2023. The Applewhite Poetry contest is open to any North Carolina poet, residing here currently or previously.
“The Coming of Wisdom”: Gessell reviews Weiss
“Their experiences transform a typical coming-of-age novel into one that exhibits the coming of not just knowledge but wisdom, revealing the novel’s power to develop universal themes, deepening its significance for readers.”
An NCLR Interview with Monique Truong (who will be in NC next week)
Monique Truong will visit UNC-CH on March 28th. From the archives, we revisit her interview in our 2015 “Global Contexts” issue.
“Making Sense of the Sixties”: Cornett reviews Zacharias
“The core of What a Wonderful Life This Could Be is humanity’s need for the safe harbor and connection of love – for community and purposeful vocation and for some form of family, even if not biological.”
Who was Hannah Crafts? From NCLR to New Book
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts:
The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative, coming in September, is the book that grew out of Hecimovich’s 2007 essay.
A Great State for Poetry
Jeffrey Franklin, Poetry Editor: “…every spring … I have the privilege and pleasure of reading the semi-finalist submissions to NCLR’s annual James Applewhite Poetry Prize, selecting the finalists that will go on to the final judge – and NCLR pages.”
New Performance Poetry Prize Contest Opens April 1
Through this contest, NCLR and the North Carolina Poetry Society will showcase what we hope will be some of the best work by emerging and preeminent performance poets in North Carolina.
“Complicated Connections:” Deutsch reviews Grimsley
“Grimsley’s allusions to multiple sorts of 1970s queerness evidence his continued interest in parallel times and in terms that evoke the slippery and shifting interpretations and possibilities in our world….”