West reviews 2023 Roanoke-Chowan Award Collection
Saturday Review: “Translating The Mysterious” a review by Robert M. West of
Michael McFee’s A Long Time to Be Gone (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
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“Window in Winter Light”
Friday from the Archives: “Window in Winter Light” a poem by Robert Hill from NCLR 25 (2016).
An elegant poem as winter draws in.
Award-Winning UNC Pembroke Professor Jane Haladay to Present at ECU
Professor Jane Haladay will give the Eutsler Lecture in Children’s Literature at 3:00, followed by a pedagogical workshop at 5:00 (reception in between).
Eating, Writing, and Reading Eastern NC
Friday from the Archives: “Collard-Kraut and Blueberry BBQ: Discovering Vivian Howard’s Corner of the South” an interview and essay by Sally F. Lawrence from NCLR 27 (2018). Since this week is all about food here in the USA, we’re pulling out a piece about one of North Carolina’s recent foodie favorites.
Poston reviews Post & Soniat
Saturday Review: “Clarity, Consolation, and the end to Definition” a review by David E. Poston in NCLR Online Fall 2023.
Wild Liar (2023) by Deborah Pope
Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence (2023) by Katherine Soniat.
Remembering NC’s Native Tribes
Friday from the Archives: “Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, Writer” by Marjorie Hudson from NCLR 1 (1992).
It’s always in the details
We focused on the often taken for granted bits and bobs involved in magazine publication. These may not be the concrete details that make us fall in love with a piece of writing, but they are the details of publishing layout and design that allow readers to immerse themselves in that very dream.
Kirkland reviews Owens
Saturday Review: “Poems of Hope and Redemption” a review by James W. Kirkland of Scott Owens’s Prepositional (2022) in NCLR Online Fall 2023.
With poems like “The Problem with Deciding on a Single Object to Follow the Preposition”….
NCLR Receives TWO Grants
North Carolina Literary Review gratefully announces receiving two grants toward community engagement from two prestigious state-wide funders
Remembering Mark Smith-Soto
Friday from the Archives: “Last Retreat to Topsail Island” by Mark Smith-Soto from NCLR 22 (2013). We at NCLR were saddened to learn of the passing of long-time friend and poet, Mark Smith-Soto, early in November.