NCLR’s 2025 Spring Issue with New Fiction by Jim Grimsley
Our Spring issue, due out for release later this month, contains a new short story by Jim Grimsley, poetry from the ’24 Applewhite contest, 21 book reviews, and more!
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Poston Reviews Amen
Saturday Review: “Impermanent Tableau” a review by David Poston forthcoming in the NCLR Online Spring 2025 of John Amen’s poetry collection, Dark Souvenir (2024).
“Blossoming Poplars” by James Applewhite
Friday from the Archives: “Blossoming Poplars,” “Unpublished Interview,” “Repairing the Farmhouse,” “The Home Place,” and “Along the Ridge”: five poems by James Applewhite with art by Paul Hartley in NCLR 2010
2025 Poetry Contest Judges: Bowens & Bathanti
The 2025 Poetry Contest judges are…
Wenger Bro reviews Dorfman
Saturday Review: “The Search for Truth in Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum” a review by Lisa Wenger Bro of Ariel Dorfman’s novel The Suicide Museum (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Humanities, History, and Education
Friday from the Archives: “Teaching the Darkness Away: Humanities, History and Education” an essay by Christie Hinson Norris in NCLR 30 (2021)
Kirkland reviews Absher
Saturday Review: “In a Beautiful but Fallen World” a review by James Kirkland of J.S. Absher’s Skating Rough Ground (2022) poetry collection in NCLR Online Winter 2025
History and Inclusion with Dr. María DeGuzmán
Friday from the Archives: “Carolina Outlier: An Interview with María DeGuzmán” by Joan Conwell with photography by María DeGuzmán in NCLR 2013
From Plate to Page: Intersections of Food and Poetry
A Guest post from our friends at the North Carolina Poetry Society. Reminder: April is National Poetry Month and the submission window for both our poetry contests!
Knox reviews Youmans
Saturday Review: “What Blooms in the Wildwood?” a review by Amber Knox of Marly Youmans’ book Seren of the Wildwood (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025