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Honoring Minnie Bruce Pratt and Feminary

Friday from the Archives: “Hearing Me Into Speech: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina” by Wynn Cherry and “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective” by Tamara Powell, from NCLR 9 (2000). We join with friends and family in mourning the passing of poet, writer, activist Minnie Bruce Pratt…

Rerun: Coby on Griffin & Gutierrez

Saturday Review: “A Little Mercy Left In The World After All” a review by Jim Coby in NCLR Online 2017
Matthew Griffin. Hide. (2016)
Michael Keenan Gutierrez. The Trench Angel. (2015)
Reviewer Coby writers, “Comes now a pair of eloquent and engaging books from first time North Carolinian novelists Matthew Griffin and
Michael Keenan Gutierrez, each tackling the subject of love in his own unique voice.”

Do Tell: Griffin Writes Elder Gays Love Story

Friday from the Archives: “The Things They Have To Endure To Stay Together”: A Conversation with Matthew Griffin by Jim Coby from NCLR 26 (2017).

It’s always exciting to read stories about older queers, especially since we have lost so many of them (people and their stories). Matthew Griffin’s first novel, Hide, explored the quiet relationship between two North Carolina men for their entire lives.

Rerun: Knotts on Morgan

Saturday Review: “Giving Fictional Shape To History” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of Robert Morgan’s As Rain Turns to Snow and Other Stories. (2017) in NCLR Online 2018
About this 2017 collection, Knotts wrote, “More so than some of Morgan’s previous fiction, many of these stories look at the difficulties posed by chronic illness and aging, but all show Morgan’s impressive range as a writer.”

Remembering Peter Makuck

Friday from the Archives: “The Poet and The Sea”: an Interview with Peter Makuck by Gary Ettari from NCLR 16 (2007).

We remember and give thanks for our dear friend Peter Makuck, who passed away this week after a long illness. He was a champion for our work and for poetry in North Carolina and beyond.

Rerun: Lawrence reviews Spencer

Saturday Review: “Love Just The Way It Is” a review by Sally F. Lawrence of
Elizabeth Spencer’s Starting Over:Stories. (2014) in NCLR Online 2015. “As a master of the short story form, Spencer continues to offer her readers fresh perspectives about familial connections in Starting Over.”

Rerun: Three Queer Poets Write About Love

Saturday Review: “Love and Death in North Carolina Poetry”: a review by Catherine Carter

Jessica Jacobs. Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going 2019.
Wayne Johns. Antipsalm 2018.
Eric Tran. The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer 2020.

Expanding Queer Southern Stories

Friday from the Archives: “A Wanderer of the Earth and a Son of the Community: Place and the Question of Queers in the Rural Souths of Lee Smith and Randall Kenan” by Harry Thomas from NCLR 17 (2008).

“In an endnote contained within his The Queer Renaissance (1997), critic Robert McRuer says that “migration-to-the-big-city novels could com­pete against coming-out stories for the title of ‘Most Common Lesbian/Gay Genre.”