NCLR 2007

Now the Feds Are Paying Us Not To Grow Our Best–known Carcinogen, What or What Shall We Eastern North Carolinians Export?
an essay by Allan Gurganus
photography by Sandra Carawan and C.W. Sullivan III

Writing His Way Home: An Interview with Samm-Art Williams
by Laura Grace Pattillo

Culture at a Crossroads
an essay by Robert Morgan
photography by Sandra Carawan

From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University
by Douglas J. McMillan

A Region’s Face: Beyond the Stereotypes, by Ovid Williams Pierce
introduced by Laura K. Southern
art by Kelly L. Adams
photography by Sandra Carawan

Searching for Hannah Crafts in Eastern North Carolina
by Gregg A. Hecimovich

“what poetry can do and how it can do it”: An Interview with NCLR‘s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin
by James Smith

Brushing Out the Tangles, Hillbilly Zen, Mountain Gathering, and Squirrelly
four poems by Jeffrey Franklin
Listen to “Squirrelly” here. ?

Letter to Myself Twenty-Five Years Ago
a poem by Julie Fay
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick

The Poet and the Sea: Interview with Peter Makuck
by Gary Ettari

Roy and Deo Gratias
two poems by Peter Makuck

Lost Colony
a short story by Constance Pierce
art by Abby Spangel Perry

Spawning Season
a short story by Erica Plouffe Lazure
photography by Charity Jules Valentine

Root for the Hawk, Banish Yellow, Wear a Hat of Goldfinches
a review of Susan Meyers’s South Carolina Poetry Prize Collection
by Tom Lombardo

The Tilt that Stumbles Me and The Day After Visiting Grace, 94
two poems by Susan Meyers
photography by Charity Jules Valentine
art by Pamela Wallace Toll

Ars Poetica: An Interview with Al Maginnes
by Gary Ettari

A Broadcast from Flyover Country
a poem by Al Maginnes

Marianne Moore’s Tricorn Hat
by Luke Whisnant
photography by George Platt Lynes

“So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow”: A Review of Luke Whisnant’s Down in the Flood
by Lee Zacharias

Lot’s Wife Speaks
a novel excerpt by Alex Albright
art by Shelton Bryant

Katmandu
a one-act play by Robert Siegel

My Father’s Library
an essay by David S. Cecelski

Vernon Ward’s International Poems: Proletarian Poetry of the Interwar Period
by Marilyn Miller

The Man in the Tree
a poem by Patrick Bizzaro
photography by Bill Byers

Driving Miss Molly Home
an essay by James Dodson

Bluffs and Laurel: A Uwharrie Weekend
an essay by Thorpe Moeckel
photography by Ben Lustig

Soliloquys at the Outer Banks
a poem by Carol Quinn
photography by Sandra Carawan

“back to beginnings”: Appalachian Women in Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Wildwood Flower and Isabel Zuber’s Salt
by Kristina L. Knotts

Genus Strombus, Species Alatus
a short story by Emily Stockard
illustrated by Joyce Joines Newman

Night Light, the 2006 Doris Betts Prize story
by Rhonda Strickland
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Opossum
a short story by Maureen A. Sherbondy
photography by Charity Jules Valentine

Geraniums
a short story by Lucy Daniels
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Ortolans
a short story by Sarah Borden Wareck
illustrated by Andrea L. Peterson

The Taxidermist
a short story by Forrest Anderson
photography by Robert Puckett

The Miscarried
a poem by Laura Hope-Gill
art by Shelton Bryant

Vanity Search and Weekend at Nantahala
two poems by Diana Mitchell
art by Amy Freeman

Chicken Man and The Lizard Man
two poems by Lisa Hammond Rashley
art by Kelly Adams

“The Pleasures of Eating”: Creating a Sustainable Community at Early Girl Eatery
by Sally Lawrence

Stuffed Collard Leaves
a recipe by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Loss and Belonging
a review of poetry collections by North Carolina’s poet laureate and recent Pulitzer Prize winner
by Jeffrey Franklin

North Carolina Novelists Revisit the Civil War Era
a review of two historical novels
by Betina Entzminger

“less a memory than a darker shade”
a review of three poetry collections
by James Kimbrell

A Classic Resurrected and an Overreaching Attempt Failed
a review of two historical novels
by Harriette C. Buchanan
Hear Charles Frazier read from Thirteen Moons here. ?

Family, History, Land
a review of three poetry collections
by Tom Lombardo

South Watchers: Two Southerners Look Back
a review of two essay collections
by Jeff Abernathy

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, W-Z
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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