NCLR Online 2013 – North Carolina Literary Review

Special Feature: North Carolina: A State of Change, A Changing State

cover photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone

The Changing State of NCLR

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“North Carolina’s changing demographic is certainly something we hoped would inspire content for this year’s special feature section.”

Orgullos, Chicanas, and Chilangos, Y’all:
Where Are North Carolina’s Latino/a Writers?
an essay by Joan Conwell

Stone-Bound and Fish Store Mural Relocated
two poems by Mark Smith-Soto
art by Luis German Ardila

Mountain Magic: An interview with Sarah Addison Allen
by Hal McDonald

Reflections of an Accidental Citizen of “the New South”
an essay by Nicole Nolan Sidhu

North Carolina, This Will Be the Last Poem
a poem by Samantha Lee Deal
art by Diana H. Bloomfield

The Shower
a short story by Ronald Jackson
art by Robert Tynes

Learning Civil Rights-Era History Through Picture Books
Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud, Belle, the Last Mule of Gee’s Bend
Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Ruth and the Green Book
a review by Gabrielle Brant Freeman

2012 North Carolina AAUW Award

“green life running wild”: Environmental Philosophy  in Charles Frazier’s New Novel
Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
a review by Zackary Vernon 
Hear Charles Frazier read from Nightwoods here. ?

John Lawson, Nature Writer, Inducted into the  North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
presentation remarks by Phillip Manning

“Quickening,” from Fiction to Film: A Conversation with Liza Wieland and Mary Kate Monahan
an interview by Tanya Nichols

Entanglement
a short story by Gregg Cusick 
art by Jon Kolkin

Picking Blackberries on Yellow Mountain Road
a poem by Richard Betz
art by George Bireline

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

New Works by Some Old Friends

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

”[M]any of the state’s literary award stories seem appropriate for the Flashbacks section: some awards or recipients reflect themes we have featured in past issues. . . . [Others] are old friends of NCLR, having generously shared their talent with our readers in previous issues.”

Homage to James Applewhite, 2012 Recipient of the Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
presentation remarks by Jeffrey Franklin

World’s Shoulder, Turning; Autumnal Equinox; and Revisitings
three poems by James Applewhite
art by Tony Breuer, Louis St. Lewis, and Michael Dorsey

Gone but not Forgotten: Reminiscences of Family, Home, Love, and Loss
Sally Rosen Kindred, No Eden
John Thomas York, Cold Spring Rising
a review by Melissa Edmundson Makala

Banding Hummingbirds and Beggar’s-Lice
two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Wayne Trapp

Stuart Wright: The Badger of Old Street
Eudora Welty: “A Sweet Devouring”
James Dickey: “Barnstorming for Poetry” at ECU
by Thomas E. Douglass
art by Maurice Sendak and Robert Dance

Unseen and The Names
two poems by Fred Chappell
art by Herb Jackson

Doppelgangers: An Interior Dialogue
Steve Mitchell, The Naming of Ghosts
a review by Fred Chappell

2012 Crittenden Award

A Descent Beckoning
Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent 
a review by Robert West 

Angelou also Inducted

Personal Sin/Public History: Penance without Salvation
Charles Dodd White, Sinners of Sanction County
a review by Nicholas Ripatrazone

His Story, History, and Home: Gary Neil Carden Receives North Carolina Award for Literature 
by Lorraine Hale Robinson 

The Regional Poet and the World
Robert Morgan, October Crossing and Terroir
Scott Owens, Something Knows the Moment and For One Who Knows How to Own Land
a review by Karen K. Mason

The Triumph of Human Spirit 
David S. Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom
Bland Simpson, Two Captains from Carolina
a review by Willie J. Harrell, Jr.

Roanoke Island Historical Association Receives
Hardee-Rives Dramatic Arts Award
presentation remarks by Bland Simpson

North Carolina Miscellany

Submit, Subscribe, Support: Keys to a Thriving NCLR

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“When people find out about NCLR, they want to participate in our efforts to preserve the state’s literary tradition.”

“Have you found out how to be anything but young?”
Catherine Carter, The Swamp Monster at Home
Claudia Emerson, Secure the Shadow
Katherine Soniat, The Swing Girl
a review by John Hoppenthaler

An “incorrigible flirt” and an “underground mission”
Julie Suk, Lie Down with Me
a review by Catherine Carter

2012 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award 

Means of Survival
Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Unaccountable Weather
Leslie Williams, Success of the Seed Plants
a review by Susan Laughter Meyers

“O, multi-colored, multiform”
Mike Smith, Multiverse
a review by Leah Miranda Hughes

Gloss and Glossolia: Poets of Wit and Transformation
Michael McFee, That Was Oasis
Daniel Nathan Terry, Waxwings
a review by Jake Adam York

A Giant in the Making
Susan Woodring, Goliath
a review by Tanya Long Bennett

Josephine Humphreys Receives 2012 Thomas Wolfe Prize

The Business of Dreaming
a short story by Kathryn Etters Lovatt
art by George Scott