“Not A Night Without A Line” Wins 2024 Applewhite Poetry Prize
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Applewhite Poetry Prize
Devra Thomas
“Summer Dawn” in Carolina
Friday from the Archives: “Summer Dawn,” a poem, by Priscilla Melchior, from NCLR 26 (2017)
Simpson reviews Gerard
Saturday Review: “Philip Gerard, American Anthem” a review by Bland Simpson of the memoir
Philip Gerard. Words & Music: An Album of a Life in Story and Song (2023) in NCLR Online Spring 2024
A Frank and Open Willingness
Friday from the Archives: “That’s How We Learn”: Ben Fountain Talks With Student Veterans At ECU” compiled by Anna Froula with Sheena Eagan from NCLR 31 (2022)
NC Poetry Society Meeting includes Green Performance Poetry
Our winners perform at the NC Poetry Society Fall Meeting on Sept 14 in Asheville.
Fielding Dawson’s “High Energy Dynamism”
Friday from the Archives: “What I Learned at Black Mountain – More!” essay by Fielding Dawson from NCLR 6 (1997)
NCLR Staff Expands with New Managing Editor
Lyra Thomas joins the staff of NCLR as the first Managing Editor. They will also work in the ECU English Department as a Teaching Assistant Professor, teaching a variety of writing courses.
Brains, Heart, and Courage: Martin Gardner
Friday from the Archives: “Martin Gardner: North Carolina’s Historian of Oz and Annotator of Alice,” interview by Mark I. West from NCLR 10 (2001)
Ground(ed) in Purpose: Ron Rash in Appalachia
Friday from the Archives: “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia” by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell from NCLR 19 (2010)
Monday Memories: NCLR Students Past and Present
Prepping for this interview, I had perused my bookshelves thinking, Now which of these Southern writers are from North Carolina? Then I grabbed a slim volume by Fred Chappell to read on the plane…