NCLR 1995

The Dance at the End of the War
a story by Elaine Gottlieb
Illustrations by Joan Mansfield

Black Mountain College: The Success of Its Own Accident
by Tom Patterson

Socrates and Serendipity: Ungainly Beginnings of an Improbable College
by Katherine C. Reynolds

Getting By and Through the ’40s
by I.S. Nakata

On Black Mountain College
by Irwin Kremen

Meeting Charles Olson at Black Mountain
by Michael Rumaker

“Don’t Touch the Poet”
by Lyman Gilmore

Five Poems
by Joel Oppenheimer
Illustrations by David Rose

New Dungarees
by Mary Parks Washington

Colored Men: The Distance Between Flash and Boom
by Martha King

The Return to Black Mountain
by Fielding Dawson

On Discovering Black Mountain College
by Mary Emma Harris

Women in Waiting: Women Writers at Black Mountain College
by Lois Redmond

Twenty-Seven Batting-Practice Pitches for the John Kruk of American Letters: An Interview with Jonathan Williams
by Leverett T. Smith

Adam and Eve
drawings by Gregory Masurovsky

“Spatial and Energetic”: A Conversation with Fielding Dawson
by Joseph Bathanti

Farther than Far
a story by Fielding Dawson
Illustrations by Stanton Blakeslee

Two Poems
by Thomas Cottle

The Black Mountain Lecture
by Fielding Dawson

The Metcalfs in North Carolina
by Paul Metcalf

Paul Metcalf: An Introduction
by Christy Alexander

“America’s Light Was Not Easy”
by Basil King
Illustrations by Sue Johnson

Tracking the Asheville Literary Renaissance
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Photographs by Mark Olencki

1994 Poetry Slams National Championships
by Gene Hyde
Poems by Jim Nave, Dan Rourke, and Allan Wolf

On Sifting through A.R. Ammons’s Garbage
by Steven P. Schneider
Textures by Lee Misenheimer

A World of Fisher Folks
by David Cecelski

Two Poems
by Peter Makuck

Six Poems
by Jeffery Beam

Lake Amnesia
by Michael Parker
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief

Something’s Nothing
a poem by A.R. Ammons

“Two Tons of Manuscript”: Thomas Wolfe Archives
by Ted Mitchell

The Wolfe Train: Kennedy as Engineer
by James W. Clark, Jr.

A Dictionary of NC Writers, E with Updates, A-D
by John S. Patterson

A Directory of NC Mystery Writers
by Art Taylor

Let Us Now Praise Shirley Anders
by Michael McFee

Karl Edward Wagner: A Personal Farewell
by C. Bruce Hunter