Friday from the Archives: “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” a poem by Kathleen Halme
with art by Claude Howell in NCLR 1998
As we head into the longest night of the year, the Solstice, and winter begins, we think of the return of the light, and the warmth of the summer sun.
Your story is important, to you, to us, to North Carolina.
Saturday Review: “Playing with Postmodern Pastiche” a review by Sharon Colley on Alan Michael Parker’s Bingo Bango Boingo, in NCLR Online Fall 2025
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
Saturday Review: “The Courage to Confront What Hurts Us,” a joint feature review by Bell Bridget of Jayme Ringleb’s So Tall It Ends with Heaven (Tin House, 2022) and Han Vanderhart’s What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2022), in NCLR Online Fall 2025.
Friday from the Archives: “Ruins of Time” a short story by Jerry Leath Mills from NCLR 17 (2008)
By Josie Klacker, Intern
Mills shared a memory for our 2008 “North Carolina Humor: The Old Mirth State” issue…
Saturday Review: “The Dangerous Myths of Motherhood”, a review by Janis Harrington of Bridget Bell’s All That We Ask of You Is to You Always Be Happy (2025) forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2025
Friday from the Archives: “Tani” a children’s story and illustrations by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn in NCLR 2006
Saturday Review: “The Beauty of Noticing,” a review by Evan Peter Smith of Georgann Eubanks’s The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South and poetry collection Rural Astronomy forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2025
Friday from the Archives: ““living deeper into matter”: Robert Frost’s “Kitty Hawk” and the Creation of Nature” by William Stott in NCLR 2003
Our special feature of 2003 was “Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First Flight: Aviation in North Carolina Literature and Letters”, so fitting we should revisit for Aviation History Month.