NCLR 2015 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina Literature in a Global Context

cover art by Eduardo Lapetina

NCLR 2015 Press Release [PDF]

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Laura Herbst
Marilyn Hervieux
Elizabeth W. Jackson

Global Influence on the Old North State

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“Our twenty-fourth issue explores how North Carolina writers have been inspired by living and traveling beyond the state’s borders. The content of this issue crosses the US and the globe, from here to Africa and Vietnam.”

A Second Life to Tell the First: An Interview with Elaine Neil Orr
by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Read the first page here. [PDF]
Listen to Elaine Neal Orr talk about this interview here. ?

At Kanati Fork, Alma, and Ivy, Sing Ivory
three poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer
art by Damian Stamer

The Cliffs of Mobenga
the 2014 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
by Laura Herbst
art by Achamyeleh Debela

In the Mingle of Gods
a poem by Barbara Conrad
art by Rick Beck
Listen to the poem here. ?

Practice and Night Passage
two poems by Peter Makuck
art by Jon Kolkin

Both Souths that I’ve Known:
An Interview with Monique Truong
by Kirstin Squint, with Nahem Yousaf
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“the void and the missing”: History, Mystery, and Throwaway Bodies in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
by Rachael Price
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Beauty and Affliction
a poem by Robert W. Hill
art by Andrew DeShazo
Listen to the poem here. ?

Going Again
a poem by Marylin Hervieux
art by Robert Winkler
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Randall Jarrell, William Wordsworth,
and the Abstractions of Modernity
by James Applewhite
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The Lost Child and The Deeply Rooted
two poems by James Applewhite
art by Richard Garrison

Photo Album
a poem by Grace C. Ocasio
art by Clarissa Sligh

East End, West End
the 2014 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by Elizabeth W. Jackson
art by Jeff Kiefer
Listen to James Applewhite read this poem here. ?

Paul Green’s South: Gothic Modernism in The House of Connelly
by Tanfer Emin Tunc
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“competition would be crushed”: National and International Threads in Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream
by Richard Ellis
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Inspector 17
a poem by Susan Lefler
art by Jo Sandman
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The Novelist of History: Using the Techniques of Fiction to Illuminate the Past
by Philip Gerard

Women’s History Month
a poem by Janet Joyner
art by Paris Alexander
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The Sweetness of Doing Nothing
a poem by Richard Betz
art by Dean Richard Leary
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