Special Feature John Lawson & the Tuscarora
​cover art by Stanton Blakeslee
Features
Broad Brush
a new poem by A.R. Ammons
The Indivisible Presence of Randall Jarrell
by Fred Chappell
Three poems by Randall Jarrell
A Week or Three Days in Chapel Hill: Faulkner, Contempo, and Their Contemporaries
by Jim Vickers
illustrated by Andy Sugg
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grackle
by Janet Lembke
illustrated by Stanton Blakeslee
Ponds and Mudbanks and Ditchbanks, Brierberries, Things of That Kind: A Conversation with A. R. Ammons
by Alex Albright excerpts from Tape for the End of the Year
by A.R. Ammons
Inner Lights and Inner Lives: The Gospel According to Linda Beatrice Brown
by Eric Weil
Authenticating Experience: North Carolina Slave Narratives and the Politics of Place
by Gay Wilentz
The narratives of Vilet Lestor and George Moses Horton
Migrant Afternoon
by Roger Manley and John Sabella
John Lawson: Gentleman, Explorer, Writer
Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, and Writer
by Marjorie Hudson
Paradise Regained, Again: The Literary Context of John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina
by E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
Digging for the Bones: Personal Explorations of Story
by Marjorie Hudson
and a series of sidebars and short articles detailing the past and present contexts of John Lawson in North Carolina
Portfolio
Photographs by Lawrence S. Earley
Syllabus
Early North Carolina Literature: A Syllabus for Serious Readers
by W. Keats Sparrow
Freedom of Speech
Banned Anything Good Lately?
by Gene D. Lanier
North Carolina Writers
On Being a North Carolina Writer
by Manly Wade Wellman
A Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, A-Bl
by John Patterson
Readers Places
The Brautigan Library
by William Marquess
People of the Book (the Valdese Public Library)
by Preston Hoffman
Archives
The A.R. Ammons Papers
by Patricia Gantt
The Fred Chappell Papers
by Alex Albright
Gatherings
The Peter Taylor Homecoming
The Lee Smith Symposium
North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
The North Carolina Women Writers Conference
The Southern Humanities Conference
To Render a Life or to Change the World
Documenting My Own Life in a Tenant Farmer’s Family
by Linda Flowers
Glider
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