“Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957” by Nora Shepard
Friday from the Archives: “Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957” a poem by Nora Shepard with photography by R.H. Sturges in NCLR 2006
From The Archives
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.
Independent Bookstore Day!
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.
“Letter to Myself Twenty-Five Years Ago” by Julie Fay
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
The Mark of a Hometown
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?
“Commencement” by Russell Colver
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!
Can a Cat Teach you how to Write a Mystery Novel?
Friday from the Archives: “Cats Are Sneaky That Way or Cats’ll Get Under Your Feet?” by Elizabeth Daniels Squire in NCLR 1996
How are cats like mysteries?
From Hayti to Radcliffe to Hollywood
Friday from the Archives: “Gwendolyn Parker on Community, Writing, and the “Human Capacity for Forgiveness and Growth”” an interview by Jenn Brandt in NCLR 2020
Brandt interviewed Durham-born author Gwendolyn Parker for our “North Carolina Expatriate Writers” special feature.
“Essential and expertly placed”
Friday from the Archives: “Concerto for the End of the World” a short story by Theresa Dowell Blackinton with art by Caroline Hickman Vaughan in NCLR 2024
“To Be Emma Bovary”
Friday from the Archives: “To Be Emma Bovary” the 2015 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem by Debra Kaufman with art by Kate Worm in NCLR 2016
This year’s poetry contests open next month!
Writing into Being
Friday from the Archives: “Authenticating Experience: North Carolina Slave Narratives and the Politics of Place ” an essay by Gay Wilentz in NCLR 1992
Closing out Black History Month by looking at this article from our first issue.