NCLR 2005

Cottie Mourns: A Comedy of Sea Island Folk
a Playmakers play by Patricia McMullan
introduced by Bryan Giemza

King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running
a song by Bland Simpson and Jim Wann
introduced by Jerry Leath Mills

“The Outer Banks” Poems of Muriel Rukeyser and W.D. Ehrhart
introduced and annotated by Martin Kich

Outer Banks
a poem by Claire Millikin
photography by Sandra Carawan

“I am a Country Editor”: W.O. Saunders and The Independent
an essay by Brian Edwards

Two Saunders Protégés
interviews by George Jackson

Ocracoke Bookstores: Distinctive Island Reading
an essay by Sally Lawrence

Preserving Outer Banks Literature and History with the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library
an essay by Elizabeth H. Smith with Margaret D. Bauer

Ode to Neva May
an essay by Bland Simpson

Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina
an essay by Elena Tajima Creef

“in Wilderness is . . . preservation”: An Interview with Jan DeBlieu
by Sheryl Cornett

Love Letters of a Solitary Naturalist
a review of Pat Garber’s Ocracoke Odyssey
by Maryscot Mullins

Seine of the Times: Talking Fish with a Couple of Women, an interview with Barbara Garrity-Blake and Susan West
by Stephanie West-Puckett

Saving the Outer Banks: Discreet Consumption in David Payne’s Gravesend Light
an essay by Virginia Nickles Osborne
photography by Sandra Carawan

Jimmies, Sooks, and the Zen of Soft Crab Shedding
an essay and photography by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Photograph in an Exhibit about Appalachia
a poem by Ali O’Rourke

A Pace of One’s Own: On Taking Early Retirement and Walking Across England
an essay and photographs by George Wolfe

Flexible Flyer
a story by Philip Gerard
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Aging
a poem by Joe Mills
photography by Jimmy Ingenito

Sticking with It
a story by Maggie L. Brown
illustrated by Kevin Sterner

Imperfect Sonnet for Richard
by Susan Davis

Floundering
a story by Patt Murphy
art by Claude Howell

Self-Portrait in an Anamorphic Basement and Pisgah Funeral
two poems by Benjamin Pryor
art by Will Henry Stevens

Breakdown and Doing Beans
two poems by Barbara Presnell

Sylvia, Dada and Grandmother’s Greenhouse
three poems by Lorrin Willis
art by David Terry

Time, Place, and a Lament for the Loss of the Chicken House: An Interview with Michael Parker
by Jeremy Lloyd and Kathryn Walker

Reference Back
a review of Mark Cox’s Natural Causes
by B. J. Leggett

Inside Out
a review of recent poetry collections by Lucinda Grey and Mendi Lewis Obadike
by Debra Kang Dean

Bound and Determined
a review of Faulkner Fox’s Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life
by Meredith Anton

Imp of the Perverse
a review of David Sedaris’s Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by Randall Martoccia

Mystery and History in 1980 North Carolina
a review of Lynn York’s The Piano Teacher
by Casey Clabough

NC Newsbriefs
by Tommi Powell

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Sadler to Sumner
by Lorraine Hale Robinson with NCLR staff

Second Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming Announced
by Eric Michael Fladung