NCLR Online 2015

Big Joy Family 
a short story by Jude Whelchel 
art by Mona Wu

An Appetite for Language: Introducing Monique Truong 
by Lisa Hinrichsen

Burning Bush 
a poem by Susan Lefler 
art by Eduardo Lapetina 

Traveling the Psychic Highway 
Monica Byrne, The Girl in the Road
a review by Kathaleen E. Amende 

​​Monica Byrne on Storytelling and Violence in The Girl in the Road 
an interview with Monica Byrne 
by Kathaleen E. Amende  ​

The L Word and Coming in June 
two poems by Barbara Conrad 
art by Susan Weil 

Ketupong 
creative nonfiction by Jane Shlensky

Bird Watching 
​Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Lee Zacharias, The Only Sounds We Make
a review by Brian Glover 

Perfect Pitch 
a poem by Richard Betz 
art by Silvia Heyden 
Listen to the poet read the poem here. ?

​Drink Your Juice, Shelby 
Tim Anderson, Sweet Tooth
a review by Gary Richards ​

AAUW Juvenile Literature Award

Insomnia Well Spent 
Kat Meads, 2:12 a.m. 
a review by Donna Gessell 

​Distance and Deadweight
two poems by Marylin Hervieux 
art by Joseph Fiore 

​Hope Without Expectations 
Kim Church, Byrd 
a review by Leigh G. Dillard 

​Lee Smith Receives Third Sir Walter Raleigh Award

After Perusing Grandma’s Scrapbook 
a poem by Grace C. Ocasio 
art by J. Stacy Utley 
Listen to Susan Laughter Meyers reading the poem here. ?

Moving Away from the Lenticular?: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Place in Godfrey Cheshire’s Moving Midway 
by Margaret T. McGehee 
New Film Clips for this essay
Page 52: Silver explains move 
Page 53: The move begins
Page 58: Different perspectives 
on Move
Page 59: Hinton’s initial visit
Page 60: Slavery history at Midway 
Page 61: Opposing views on Civil War
Page 63: Interracial family ties
Page 64: Hinton’s Visit to Midway
Page 65: Closing scene

Two Epistolary Offerings from the North Carolina Division of Archives and History 
John R. Barden, ed., Letter to the Home Circle 
Judkin Browning and Michael Thomas Smith, eds., Letters from a North Carolina Unionist 
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson 

desertion 
a poem by Marcus Gregory Johnston 
art by George Scott 
Listen to the poet read the poem here. ? ​

“coloring outside the lines” 
Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies 
a review by Amanda M. Capelli 

World without End 
a short story by Taylor Brown 
art by John Urbain 

Another Addition to Western North Carolina’s Literature of Place 
Jeremy B. Jones, Bearwallow
a review by Brent Martin 

​Pitfalls of Parenting 
Drew Perry, Kids These Days 
a review by Annie Frazier 

Cozy Up with a New Southern Mystery 
Ruth Moose, Doing It at the Dixie Dew: a Mystery
a review by Joseph Horst 

Ira David Wood III Receives the 2014 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts

“love just the way it is” 
Elizabeth Spencer, Starting Over
a review by Sally F. Lawrence 

Present-Tense Drifters 
Michael Parker, All I Have in This World
a review by Jim Coby 

A Mighty Pretty Blue 
fiction by Michael Parker  
art by JoAnn H. Hart 

Redemption, Inspired and Questioned 
Joseph Bathanti, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless 
Earl Swift, Auto Biography
a review by Lisa Proctor 

​Overcoming the Southern Cult of Authenticity 
Wiley Cash, This Dark Road to Mercy
a review by Zackary Vernon 

Allan Gurganus Receives the R. Hunt Parker Award

Mapping the Unknown Self 
Joseph Bathanti, Concertina
David Radavich, The Countries We Live In 
a review by George Hovis 

Two 2014 North Carolina Awards for Literature

On Cats and the Cosmos 
James Applewhite, Cosmos 
Fred Chappell, Familiars 
a review by Rebecca Godwin 

The Reenactors  and Seafarer’s Marriage 
two poems by James Applewhite 
art by McDonald Bane and George Bireline 

Kathryn Stripling Byer: Her “words are gates swinging wide open” 
a tribute by Tara Powell 

Carolina Mourning: or, Still Life with Squirrels 
Laurence Avery, Mountain Gravity 
Shelby Stephenson, The Hunger of Freedom 
a review by John Steen 

How We Got Our Names 
a poem by Marty Silverthorne 
art by Richard Kinnaird 
Listen to Shelby Stephenson reading the poem here. ?

The Ever-Changing Field 
Becky Gould Gibson, Heading Home 
a review by Sarah Huener 

A Great Day for Poetry in North Carolina:  Four “Global” North Carolina Writers Inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame 
by Margaret D. Bauer