Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.
Friday from the Archives: “Radio Writers: a review of two NPR collections” by James O. Chatham in NCLR 2002 Hard to believe we only have a handful of reviews or scholarly writings about such a prolific writer as Reynolds Price.
Friday from the Archives: “Day at a Historic Park” a poem by Craig Thompson Friend in NCLR Online 2019
We are always chuffed when we get to watch a writer publish an initial piece in NCLR and then go onto an award-winning publishing career.
Friday from the Archives: “The Most Personal of Teachers: A Student Remembers” by Stephen Smith in NCLR 1993
Friday from the Archives: ““I was Pearl and my last name was Harbor”: Monique Thuy-Dong Truong’s “Kelly” and Ethnic Southern Memory” by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith in NCLR 2004
Friday from the Archives: “Customs” and “Heart Sutra #6” two poems by Debra Kang Dean with art by Olivia Gatewood in NCLR 2000
Friday from the Archives: “Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957” a poem by Nora Shepard with photography by R.H. Sturges in NCLR 2006
Friday from the Archives: “The Magic of a Reading Place of My Own” an essay by Emöke B’Rácz and “City Lights Bookstore and Cafe” an essay by Nina L. Anderson from NCLR 1993 and 1996
by Layla Hope, intern
What better way to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day than by looking back at stories that show why books, and the places we get them from, matter.
Friday from the Archives: “Letter to Myself Twenty-Five Years Ago” a poem by Julie Fay with photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick in NCLR 2007
Friday from the Archives: “I Know 8000 Lunatics: Confessions of an Apple Stealing SOB” essay by Michael Parker from NCLR 1993 volume I number 2
by Axel Snyder, Intern
How many of us have a perfect relationship with our hometown?
Friday from the Archives: “Commencement” the 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem by Russell Colver with art by Joe Muench in NCLR 2017
Happy National Poetry Month!