“Powell’s descriptions of place are quite lyrical. He obviously knows the landscape he gives us
in western North Carolina and southern Virginia. He has a way of taking the readers right to the spot and immersing us in the culture, landscape, and people.”
March 2, 2023: Voyages of Discovery series presents NC Author Jason Mott
Announcing the winners of two honors given for content in our issues: the John Ehle Prize and the Randall Kenan Prize.
“You have to travel, even if it’s only for two days a week or two days a month. You have to go away to get some contrast and a sense of who you are, where you are, and where the rest of the world is.”
“…sometimes I relish my screening role: I really don’t need to make a firm decision between two poems, for example. I can send both.”
“Erica Plouffe Lazure could write about anything. She could capture any time, place, person. That she chose to write about people in North Carolina is a gift…”
In NCLR Issue 13, published in 2004, professor Christina Bucher examined the poetry Murray wrote and published. Specifically, Bucher provides a scholarly look at the protest poems found in the singular volume published in 1970,
The North Carolina Literary Review releases its 2023 Winter online issue.
Editor Margaret Bauer will be a special guest on Wordplay on Asheville FM 103.3 on February 12, 2023, at 5:00.
McFadyen walks through two poetry collections, noting how “in their debut poetry collections, Alana Dagenhart and Cheryl Wilder survey death, tragedy, and family bonds with unwavering frankness.”