Contents—Issue Number 4, 1995

Features | Reviews | Thomas Wolfe
Small Magazines | North Carolina Writers | Freedom of Speech

Features

The Dance at the End of the War, a story by Elaine Gottlieb
Illustrations by Joan Mansfield
   
Black Mountain College: The Success of Its Own Accident,
by Tom Patterson
   
Socrates and Serendipity: Ungainly Beginnings of an Improbable College,
by Katherine C. Reynolds
   
Getting By and Through the '40s, by I.S. Nakata
   
On Black Mountain College, by Irwin Kremen
   
Meeting Charles Olson at Black Mountain, by Michael Rumaker
   
"Don't Touch the Poet," by Lyman Gilmore
   
Five Poems by Joel Oppenheimer
Illustrations by David Rose
   
New Dungarees, by Mary Parks Washington
   
Colored Men: The Distance Between Flash and Boom, by Martha King
   
The Return to Black Mountain, by Fielding Dawson
   
On Discovering Black Mountain College, by Mary Emma Harris
   
Women in Waiting: Women Writers at Black Mountain College, by Lois Redmond
   
Twenty-Seven Batting-Practice Pitches for the John Kruk of American Letters: An Interview with Jonathan Williams, by Leverett T. Smith
   
Adam and Eve, drawings by Gregory Masurovsky
   
"Spatial and Energetic": A Conversation with Fielding Dawson, by Joseph Bathanti
   
Farther than Far, a story by Fielding Dawson
Illustrations by Stanton Blakeslee
   
Two Poems by Thomas Cottle
   
The Black Mountain Lecture, by Fielding Dawson
   
The Metcalfs in North Carolina, by Paul Metcalf
   
Paul Metcalf: An Introduction, by Christy Alexander
   
"America's Light Was Not Easy," by Basil King
Illustrations by Sue Johnson
   
Tracking the Asheville Literary Renaissance,
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Photographs by Mark Olencki
   
1994 Poetry Slams National Championships, by Gene Hyde
Poems by Jim Nave, Dan Rourke, and Allan Wolf
   
On Sifting through A.R. Ammons's Garbage, by Steven P. Schneider
Textures by Lee Misenheimer
   
A World of Fisher Folks, by David Cecelski
   
Two Poems by Peter Makuck
   
Six Poems by Jeffery Beam
   
Lake Amnesia, by Michael Parker
Illustrations by Brian Woodlief
   
Something's Nothing, a poem by A.R. Ammons
   

Reviews

Janet Lembke on mystery novels by Margaret Maron, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, and Toni L.P. Kelner
   
Elisabeth Rose on Fiction by Doris Betts and Ellyn Bache
   
Mike Hamer on Reynolds Price's A Whole New Life
and other disability literature
   

Thomas Wolfe

"Two Tons of Manuscript": Thomas Wolfe Archives,
by Ted Mitchell
   
The Wolfe Train: Kennedy as Engineer,
by James W. Clark, Jr.
   

   

Small Magazines

New Listings and updates, by Alice Caverly
   

North Carolina Writers

A Dictionary of NC Writers, E with Updates,
A-D by John S. Patterson
   
A Directory of NC Mystery Writers, by Art Taylor
   
Let Us Now Praise Shirley Anders, by Michael McFee
   
Karl Edward Wagner: A Personal Farewell, by C. Bruce Hunter
   

Freedom of Speech

Is Hate a Family Value? by Gene D. Lanier
   
Word Wars by Elizabeth McDavid
   
Reviews of Bridge to Terabithia, by Courtney Redmond and Amanda McDavid