Featuring the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
Cover art by Ray Elmore
Features
Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses
by Janet Lembke
Illustrations by Paul Rustand
Keeping Track
a poem by A.R. Ammons
Paul Green’s War Songs
by John Herbert Roper
Paul Green: Documentarian
by Ed Devany
Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe
by Bertie E. Fearing
Sister-in-Crime: An Interview with Margaret Maron
by Art Taylor
ET & WNC Express Lines: An Interview with Charles Wright
by Michael Chitwood
The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
Black, White, and Gray: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898
by Bennett L. Steelman
Cape Fear Rising
by Philip Gerard
One of the Meanest Books: Thomas Dixon and The Leopard’s Spots
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Walter Hines Page: Editor, Publisher, and Enlightened Reformer
by James T. Rostar
The Marrow of Tradition: Charles Chesnutt’s Novel of the South
by Joyce Pettis
Yankee Writers in North Carolina
Aesthetic Transport
a poem by MaryJo Mahoney
Yankee Writers in North Carolina: Literary Carpetbaggers?
by Robin Hemley
Biting the Hand
an essay by Richard Krawiec
Illustration by Paul Rustand
Sleeping Over
a story by Robin Hemley
Illustrations by Lee Misenheimer
Two Poems
by Joseph Bathanti
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief and Paul Rustand
In the Land of the Sky
a story by P.B. Parris
Illustrations by Joan Mansfield
The Turf of Hankering
an essay by Joseph Bathanti
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief
Portfolio
Photographs by David M. Spear
Reviews
Bland Simpson on Nature Books by Phillip Manning and John K. Terres
Tim Hampton on Morton I. Teicher’s Wolfe Photo Album
F. Whitney Jones on Poetry Collections by Michael McFee and Shelby Stephenson
David R. Slavitt on Poetry Collections by A.R. Ammons and James Applewhite
Megan Simpson on Poetry Collections by Applewhite and Joan Cockrell New
Lois Redmond on William J. Walsh’s Interviews with Southern Writers
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe and the Myth of Autobiography
by Joseph Bentz
Writers Places
Combat Boots
by Mary Elizabeth Parker
Gatherings
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
by Maria Ingram
Minnie Evans: A Symposium
by Michael Duffy
NC Playwrights Festival
by C. Robert Jones
“Taking a Vote on Creativity”
by Betsy Humphreys
Small Magazines
by Tim Hampton
North Carolina Writers
A Dictionary of NC Writers, Chi-D
by John Patterson
Grace DiSanto Remembered
by Shelby Stephenson
Glider
News, letters, corrections and two poems by Sam Ragan
Correspondent
501 N. Blount Street
by Linda Flowers
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