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: “what poetry can do and how it can do it”: An Interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin by James Smith from NCLR 16 (2007)
Have you submitted to either of our April poetry contests yet? If your written poem is chosen by our group of first-pass readers, it will then go to our long-standing Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin for review.
Friday from the Archives: “Working With The Wiggle: An Interview With Betty Adcock” by James Smith from NCLR 18 (2009)
“Betty Adcock’s work often suggests a struggle with words, an attempt to make them do something, go someplace, for the first time.”
Friday from the Archives: “Reconciliation and Return: A.R. Ammons’s Poetry as Autobiography” by Ted Olsen from NCLR 15 (2006)
by Abby Trzepacz
Friday from the Archives: “1994 Poetry Slams National Championships” by Gene Hyde from NCLR 2.2 (1995).
Friday from the Archives: “Women Writers of Black Mountain College” by Lois Carol Wheatley from NCLR 11 (2002).
Friday from the Archives: “The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry” by Jessica Cory from NCLR 32 (2023).
Friday from the Archives: “Therese Anne Fowler and Maligned Women: Setting the Story Straight on Zelda Fitzgerald and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont” an Interview by Sheryl Cornett from NCLR 27 (2018).
Friday from the Archives: “North Carolina’s Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore” by E. Thomson Shields from NCLR 13 (2004). By Amber Knox
Friday from the Archives: “Those Awful Family Trees” by Angela Belcher Epps from NCLR Online Fall 2022.
Angela Belcher Epps has twice won an honorable mention for this prize.
Friday from the Archives: “Little Girlfriend” a poem by Grace C. Ocasio from NCLR 22 (2013).
This is the first Ocasio poem to be published in NCLR.