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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.

Ammons Poetry & Celebration

Friday from the Archives: “Alligator Holes Down along about Old Dock” a poem by A.R. Ammons in NCLR 1993

We hope to see everyone at the R.A. Fountain General Store on 2/14….

Writing Towards Healing

Friday from the Archives: “Measured” an essay by Susan Wilson  in NCLR Online 2021
Our 2021 special feature was “Writing Towards Healing.”

“Out of all places, East Carolina”

Friday from the Archives: “Out of all places, East Carolina”: Talking with NCLR’s Founding Editor, Alex Albright an interview by Peter Makuck in NCLR 2002

Our annual Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest is now open!

“I am a North Carolinian”

Friday from the Archives: “A Moment on Hooper Lane: How We See, How We Are Seen” an essay by Bland Simpson in NCLR 2018
“Would
that we could greet each and every one of these millions of newcomers, whether they are born here or come from away, like the original native Americans, the first peoples twelve millennia ago.”

The South’s Smoke and Mirrors

Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000

“Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” by Kathleen Halme

Friday from the Archives: “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” a poem by Kathleen Halme
with art by Claude Howell in NCLR 1998

As we head into the longest night of the year, the Solstice, and winter begins, we think of the return of the light, and the warmth of the summer sun.

NC Writing from 1760s to 2025

Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000

Comedy from Jake Mills

Friday from the Archives: “Ruins of Time” a short story by Jerry Leath Mills from NCLR 17 (2008) 

By Josie Klacker, Intern

Mills shared a memory for our 2008 “North Carolina Humor: The Old Mirth State” issue…