Coming “Home” with Samm-Art Williams
“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.”
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Relishing a Good Story
“…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.”
“Human Heart”: Meredith reviews Lazure
“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…”
A Case for the Poet Pauli Murray
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,
NCLR Online Winter Issue Introduces 2023 Feature on Native American Literature
The North Carolina Literary Review releases its 2023 Winter online issue.
NCLR Editor Margaret Bauer to Be on Wordplay Radio
Editor Margaret Bauer will be a special guest on Wordplay on Asheville FM 103.3 on February 12, 2023, at 5:00.
Family Bonds in Two New Poetry Collections
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.”
Mountain Medicine: Music and Healing in Frazier’s Nightwoods
Friday from the Archives: “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods” by Paula Rawlins from North Carolina Literary Review Issue 30, 2021
“A Right of Passage” : Entzminger Reviews Miranda
Entzminger astutely points out that “One of the best aspects of the novel is this strong, believable, and fully developed female narrator, Abby Lovett, who is not seeking, nor does she find, a romantic partner.” How refreshing in today’s entertainment.
Writerly Influences: Cash on Gaines
Cash reminisced about his time being a student of Gaines in an interview with George Hovis in our 2013 issue, released after his breakout debut novel _A Land More Kind Than Home_ received much acclaim in 2012.