NCLR 2019

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Special Feature: North Carolina African American Literature

cover art by Barbara Tyroler

NCLR 2019 Press Release [PDF]

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Pushcart Nominations
Jennifer Brown
Catherine Carter
Nancy Werking Poling
Glenis Redmond
Sally Thomas

African American Writers of North Carolina, from New Sensation Stephanie Powell Watts Back to George Moses Horton

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“More literary scholars than usual responded to this issue’s call for submissions, and the seven essays published here offer a variety of critical perspectives on African American writers.”

Read a review of this feature section in a Denmark website on African American literature.

Leaving Home to Return Home:
Writing North Carolina Homeplace from
the Particular to the Universal,
an Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts
by DeLisa D. Hawkes and Maia L. Butler

“Wildness Was Nothing to Admire”:
African American Environmental Thought
and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us
an essay by Jessica Cory
art by David C. Driskell

Fable in the Storm, To the Island and To Home
three poems by Amber Flora Thomas
art by Krystal Hart, Monique Luck and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

“seeing the opportunity in tomorrow”:
An Interview with Jason Mott
by Jennifer Larson

Divorce
a poem by Kevin Dublin
art by Juan Logan
Listen to the poem here. ?

Glenis Redmond: Poet, Teaching Artist, Griot
an interview by Lisa Sarasohn

Dreams Speak: My Father’s Words
and Every One of My Names
two poems by Glenis Redmond
art by Darry Hurts and Jacob Lawrence
Listen to “Dreams Speak: My Father’s Words” here. ?

A Visitation with Randall Kenan
an interview by George Hovis
art by Antoine Williams

Bombingham, 1963
a poem by L. Teresa Church
art by Charles Henry Alston

“let them be black and beautiful”:
A Black Southerner’s Grasp at Self-Respect
in C. Eric Lincoln’s The Avenue, Clayton City
an essay by Francine L. Allen
art by Ivey Hayes

Looking for Charles
an essay by Jennifer Harding

Aun’ Peggy: Charles Chesnutt’s Vampire Slayer?
an essay by Trudier Harris
illustrations by Paula Jordan-Mayo

Disembodied Intimacies and Shadows of True Womanhood:
Reclaiming Agency in Harriet Jacobs’s
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
an essay by Ashley Burge
art by John Biggers

The Literary Friendship of George Moses Horton and Caroline Lee Hentz
John Ehle Prize by Patrick E. Horn
illustrations by Claude Howell

“the verses from our pen to him belong”:
National Identity in the Political Homages
of George Moses Horton
an essay by Justin Williams
illustrations by Claude Howell

On Timing, Friendship, Loss, and Gratitude

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“Enjoy the next several pages of “Flashbacks” to past themes and new work by familiar (with an emphasis on family) writers.”

A Literary Scholar and a Surrogate Granddaughter Contemplate the Life and Work of Zoe Kincaid Brockman

Lyrical Journalism, Investigative Poetry
by Rebecca Duncan

Remembering Grandmother Zoe
by Lyn Triplett

A Calling, Travelers and April in October
three poems by James Applewhite
art by Michael Dorsey, Richard Finnell and Colleen Black Semelka

Womb-Room
the 2018 James Applewhite Poetry Prize
poem by Catherine Carter
art by Kiki Farish

How Rhodon the Tutor Prepared Cleopatra’s Son and In my yard are henbit
two poems by J.S. Absher
art by Anni Albers and Lorna Blaine Halper

Girl Praxis
a poem by Nilla Larsen
art by Gordon C. James

On New NCLR Friends

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“I noted introducing the Flashbacks section how I have developed friendships with some of NCLR’s regular writers over the years. And sometimes I become “fast friends” with new writers I meet.”