NCLR 2017 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina Literature and the Other Arts

cover art by Jane Desonier

NCLR 2017 Press Release [PDF]

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Pushcart Nominations
Tori Reynolds
RussellColver
Anita Collins
Paul Jones
Damien Stamer

Writing + Art + Music = Creative Synergy

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

“The discovery that Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain has been adapted into an opera inspired this year’s special feature section topic.”

Cold Mountain: A Journey from Frazier’s
Magnus Opus to Higdon’s Magnum Opera
by Christina Reitz

This, When Your Heart No Longer Desires
to Keep Beating
a poem cycle by Kathryn Stripling Byer
art by Linda Foard Roberts

Enlightenment Fables
a verse sequence by Fred Chappell
art by John Lawson

Scribbler
a poem by Robert Morgan
art by Donald Martiny

Voices in Counterpoint:
An Interview with Michael Götting
by Claudia Drieling

How to Survive a Bee Attack
a poem by Susan Schmidt
art by Barbara Fisher

Sonny Man and the Snake
a poem by Tori Reynolds
art by Ronald G. Robertson

Never Mind
fiction by Michael Parker
art by John Dickson

what happened next, happened fast –
a poem by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
art by Antoine Williams

shadow man
a poem by Marcus Johnston
art by Gerald Weckesser

Make Believe with Utter Conviction:
An Interview with Garth Risk Hallberg
by Brian Glover

December
a poem by Sam Barbee
art by Bill McAllister

Stands of Pines in a Hurricane
a poem by Joan Leotta
art by Frank Holder

Delaware River
a poem by Laura Sloan Patterson
art by Frank Holder

Renaissance Man:
An Interview with Clyde Edgerton
by George Hovis
art by Clyde Edgerton

Summer Dawn
a poem by Priscilla Melchior
art by Clyde Edgerton
Listen to the poem here. ?

Expressive Interplay through Pictures and Words:
The Art and Design of the North Carolina Literary Review
by Randall Wilhelm
art by Ronald Robertson, Leah Sobsey,
Richard Fennell, Jeff Kiefer, and Mona Wu

A Walk in the Dark, Thinking with Clouds,
and Steps Up the Steep Bank
three poems by James Applewhite
art by Leigh Suggs, Louis St. Lewis,
and Richard Garrison

Commencement
the 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize
poem by Russell Colver
art by Joe Muench

The Anderson Kid
the 2016 Doris Betts Fiction Prize
story by Anita Collins
art by Barbara Tyroler

Clear Channel
a poem by Paul Jones
art by Jason Craighead

Miller Road
the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
essay by Trace Ramsey
art by Damien Stamer

A Poet Waits
a poem by Kit Wienert
art by Jodi Hollnagel-Jubran

Half-Whistling to the Plants
a poem by Robert W. Hill
art by Murry Handler

Cleaning the Maple
a poem by Susan Lefler
art by Jan Lee

Articles of Faith and The Widow Finds the Annuals
two poems by Betty Adcock
art by Chris Chiwa Clark

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

Special People and Special Collections

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

“We’ve covered quite a few treasures found in ECU’s Joyner Library over the years, and we know there are many more jewels yet to be found there and in other libraries and museums.”

Betty Adcock: Two Appreciations
“not afraid of the dark”
a tribute by Noel Crook

“a solo we won’t soon forget”
a tribute by Al Maginnes

A Tree Grows on the Moon
creative nonfiction by Lee Bridgers

Greenville’s Book Clubs Culture:
Serving Eastern North Carolina
by Mary Kathryn Thornton

North Carolina Miscellany

A New Voice Tells an Old “Love Is Love” Story

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

“That is the purpose of this North Carolina Miscellany section: to publish content that doesn’t fit the current or past special feature topics. We are always happy to promote new writers.”