Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Jason Mott’s past and present
After winning the National Book Award for his 2021 novel Hell of a Book, it’s likely safe to say Mott himself is one of those blistering voices.
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“The Big Broken Heart”: Bennett reviews Powell
“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.”
“Hell Of A Book: A Meeting with Jason Mott”
March 2, 2023: Voyages of Discovery series presents NC Author Jason Mott
Prize-Winning Essays Feature Old and New Indigenous Voices
Announcing the winners of two honors given for content in our issues: the John Ehle Prize and the Randall Kenan Prize.
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.”
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.