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Current Issue Contents—Number 13, 2004 | Ordering the Current Issue

Ethnic North Carolina | Creative Writing | Flashbacks | Food Finds
Book Reviews | NC Writers
     


Ethnic North Carolina
Literature and Letters

NCLR 2004 Cover |
    
    
   
Quotation from  Ron Rash

    

North Carolina's Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore, by E. Thomson Shields

"There's always a story to tell": Creating Tradition on Qualla Boundary, by Karen J. McKinney

Wachovia Wilds, a poem by Allison Hedge Coke

Adantis, Land of Melded Cultures: An Interview with Marly Youmans, by Bes Stark Spangler

"The Sea as Destination," a poem by Philip Arnold
art by Tim Bruce

"anything but surrender": Preserving Southern Appalachia in the Works of Ron Rash,
by Anna Dunlap Higgins

The Binding Ties between Women, their Art, and the Mountains, a review by Joyce Compton Brown

Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry, by Christina G. Bucher

clay; big hair, fat kitchen, lean loc; kodak moments; and burn cork bop, four poems by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
art by Shelton Bryant and Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Place in the Family, a poem by L. Teresa Church
art by John Biggers

Investigating Social Injustice: BarbaraNeely's Blanche White Mysteries, by Ellen Arnold

Waiting for America and Isaac in Durham, two poems by Mendi Lewis Obadike
art by Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Wind Song and Rhythmic Feet, two poems by Lenard D. Moore
art by John Biggers and Sharon Barksdale-Worth

Actaeon and Diana, a poem by Alan Shapiro
photography by Frank Hunter

Out of the Diaspora: Alan Shapiro on Poetry, Community and Life in the South, an interview by Sheryl Cornett

Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman, by Robert Siegel; introduced by Stuart W. Sanderson with Lorraine Hale Robinson

"I was Pearl and my last name was Harbor": Monique Thuy-Dong Truong's "Kelly" and Ethnic Southern Memory, by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith

Yankees and Indians, an essay by Jennifer Vivekanand
photography and design by Jennifer Vivekanand

   

Creative Writing

Quotation from Lee Zacharias

    

St-Paul-de-Vence and Water Street, two poems by Michael White
photography by Henry Stindt and Jim White

Doing Justice, an essay by Lee Zacharias
photography by Candice Drohan

On the Hinge, an essay by Meredith Anton
photography and design by Dana Ezzell Gay

Love Song, Gryllinae, a poem by Julie Kate Howard
art by Susan Luddeke

    
    

Flashbacks: Echoes
of Past Issues

    

"in the kitchen"; or, The Things I Might Have Learned from Ed Dorn, by Bill Morris

    

Food Finds

    

A View from the Kitchen: The Other Side of the Swinging Door, by Lorraine Hale Robinson

    

Book Reviews

    

A Revisionist Perspective on the American Revolution in the South, a review of President Jimmy Carter's The Hornet's Nest, by Ed Piacentino

"attached to life at all four corners," a review of new novels by Michael Malone and Isabel Zuber, by Kristina Knotts

Seeking and Surviving, a review of recent short story collections by Joe Ashby Porter, Kat Meads, and Deborah Cumming, by Sally Lawrence

Family Reunions of Words, a review of recent collections of creative nonfiction by Tony Earley and Rebecca McClanahan, by Maryscot Mullins

Talking Back; or, "an irreverent retort," a review of Fred Chappell's Backsass, by Michael Poteat

    

North Carolina Writers

    

Tom and Betsy's Family: Tobacco People, Memory, and Vernacular History, by Charles D. Thompson and Mary Williams Barnes
photography by Charles D. Thompson and Robert Puckett

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Rabb to Rust, by Lorraine Hale Robinson

NC Newsbriefs, by Maryscot Mullins

    


Margaret Bauer, Editor | NCLR | Department of English | East Carolina University
Greenville NC 27858-4353 | (252) 328-1537 | BauerM@ecu.edu

Harriot College of Arts and Sciences | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association