NCLR 2011

​“breaking down walls”: An Interview with David Gessner 
by Dominique Marshall 
art by Joan Mansfield 

If sky is skin, then what is wind?  and Island Child
two poems by Anna Elkins 
art by Romare Bearden 

Driving from Columbia
a poem by James Applewhite 
art by Kelly L. Adams 

The Constant, Haunting Music of the Geese
an essay by David Cecelski 
photography by Edward T. Smith 

Crumbling the Hummingbird, The Snow’s Already Falling, What’s Left Us, Weighing the Difference, and Lately I Begin with Birds
five poems by Brian Hendrickson 
art by Robert Dunning 
photography by Jon Kolkin 

An Imperfect Marriage: Thoughts on Being Faithful to Home 
an essay by Jan DeBlieu 
art by Robert Dunning 
photography by Edward T. Smith 

Work in the Morning and Renovation
two poems by Valerie Nieman 
art by Annie Hogan 

One North Florida 
a poem by B. Landrex Outlaw 
art by John Maggio ​

Cashie River Days
an essay by Bland Simpson 
photography by Ann Cary Simpson 

Asters and Goldenrod
two poems by Sally Rosen Kindred 
art by Robert Dunning 
art by John Littleton and Kate Vogel 

Weeds
an essay by Janet Lembke 
photography by Edward T. Smith 

i forgive the spiders
a poem by doris davenport
art by Minnie Evans

​Tobacco Rise 
a poem by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 
art by Joan Mansfield 

What If More People Move to North Carolina?
a review by Susan Schmidt 
photography by Rob Amberg, Scott Taylor, and Michael Brantley

The Influx, Holy Ground, and In the Graveyard 
three poems by Catherine Carter  
art by Robert Dunning 
art by Jane Filer 

Hunting for Camellias at Horseshoe Bend
an essay by Brent Martin 
photography by Angela Faye Martin 

Bending Back the Night
a poem by Julie Dunlop 
art by Jean LeCluyse 

Writing the Interior Landscape: An interview with George Ellison 
by Kathryn Stripling Byer 
art by Elizabeth Ellison 

​I Called Them Trees, To Waste at Trees, What More?, and Ligustrum
four poems by Gerald Barrax, Sr. 
art by Jacob Lawrence 

The Classical Ecopoetics of Fred Chappell’s Backsass and Midquest
by George Hovis 
art by Donald Sultan and photography by Rob Amberg 

Spirit Country: The Voice of the Earth and Ron Rash’s Southern Appalachia 
by Jimmy Dean Smith 

Call 
a poem by Zelda Lockhart 
art by Elaine Reed 

Great Buzzards and Talking Hogs, Ghost Crabs and Goophered Grapevines, Sharecropping and Riverwriting: Species of North Carolina Environmental Literature 
by Scott Hicks 
photography by Sandra Carawan ​

“memories, tapestries”: A.R. Ammons and his North Carolina Roots 
a review of two new Ammons poetry collections
by Robert West 

Old North State Literary Treasures: A Guidebook and Two Anthologies 
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson 

Other Voices, Other Worlds 
a review of Warren Rochelle’s The Called 
by F. Brett Cox 

Wars at Home and Abroad: An Appalachian Homecoming 
a review of Charles Dodd White’s new novel 
by Ed Piacentino 

The Long Voyage Home: Richard McKenna at Chapel Hill
by Thomas E. Douglass 

The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench 
a short story by Richard McKenna 

Ain’t Gonna Turn Out to Be Nothing
a poem by Marty Silverthorne 
art by Angela Franks Wells 

As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea 
the 2010 Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner
by Robert Wallace 
art by Robert Dunning 
photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone 

Poetry Journals, Poetry Anthologies, and the Southern Poetry Review Anthology 
a review by Jeffrey Franklin 

(Re)Discovering Guy Owen: A 40th Anniversary Edition of Journey for Joedel 
a review by Casey Clabough

Guitar Prostitute 
a poem by Robert Hill Long 
photography by Edward T. Smith

Michael Malone, Witness to the Times, an interview 
by Art Taylor 
illustrations by Allan Gurganus and Daniel Wallace 

Two Greensboro Novels Confront Loss 
a review by Kristina Knotts 

Through Decades, Fresh Visions of Reality 
a review of new poetry collections by Sally Buckner 

Making the Biscuits 
a poem by Terri Kirby Erickson 
art by Linda Foard Roberts