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Issue Contents—Number 14, 2005 | Ordering this Issue

Outer Banks Writing | Creative Writing | Flashbacks | Book Reviews | NC Writers
     


Outer Banks Writing

NCLR 2005 Cover | Outer Banks
    
    
   

    

Cottie Mourns: A Comedy of Sea Island Folk, a Playmakers play by Patricia McMullan
introduced by Bryan Giemza

King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running, a song by Bland Simpson and Jim Wann
introduced by Jerry Leath Mills

"The Outer Banks" Poems of Muriel Rukeyser and W.D. Ehrhart
introduced and annotated by Martin Kich
Outer Banks, a poem by Claire Millikin
photography by Sandra Carawan

"I am a Country Editor": W.O. Saunders and The Independent, an essay by Brian Edwards
Two Saunders Protégés, interviews by George Jackson

Ocracoke Bookstores: Distinctive Island Reading, an essay by Sally Lawrence

Preserving Outer Banks Literature and History with the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library, an essay by Elizabeth H. Smith with Margaret D. Bauer

Ode to Neva May, an essay by Bland Simpson

Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina, an essay by Elena Tajima Creef

"in Wilderness is . . . preservation": An Interview with Jan DeBlieu, by Sheryl Cornett
Love Letters of a Solitary Naturalist, a review of Pat Garber's Ocracoke Odyssey, by Maryscot Mullins

Seine of the Times: Talking Fish with a Couple of Women, an interview with Barbara Garrity-Blake and Susan West, by Stephanie West-Puckett

Saving the Outer Banks: Discreet Consumption in David Payne's Gravesend Light, an essay by Virginia Nickles Osborne
photography by Sandra Carawan

Jimmies, Sooks, and the Zen of Soft Crab Shedding, an essay and photography by Lorraine Hale Robinson

    

Creative Writing

    

Photograph in an Exhibit about Appalachia, a poem by Ali O'Rourke

A Pace of One's Own: On Taking Early Retirement and Walking Across England, an essay and photographs by George Wolfe

Flexible Flyer, a story by Philip Gerard
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Aging, a poem by Joe Mills
photography by Jimmy Ingenito

Sticking with It, a story by Maggie L. Brown
illustrated by Kevin Sterner

Imperfect Sonnet for Richard, a poem by Susan Davis
photography by Sandra Carawan

Floundering, a story by Patt Murphy
art by Claude Howell

Self-Portrait in an Anamorphic Basement and Pisgah Funeral, two poems by Benjamin Pryor
art by Will Henry Stevens

Breakdown and Doing Beans, two poems by Barbara Presnell

Sylvia, Dada, and Grandmother's Greenhouse, three poems by Lorrin Willis
art by David Terry

    

Flashbacks: Echoes
of Past Issues

    

Time, Place, and a Lament for the Loss of the Chicken House: An Interview with Michael Parker, by Jeremy Lloyd and Kathryn Walker

    

Book Reviews

    

Reference Back, a review of Mark Cox's Natural Causes, by B. J. Leggett

Inside Out, a review of recent poetry collections by Lucinda Grey and Mendi Lewis Obadike, by Debra Kang Dean

Bound and Determined, a review of Faulkner Fox's Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life, by Meredith Anton

Imp of the Perverse, a review of David Sedaris's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by Randall Martoccia

Mystery and History in 1980 North Carolina, a review of Lynn York's The Piano Teacher, by Casey Clabough

    

North Carolina Writers

    

NC Newsbriefs, by Tommi Powell

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Sadler to Sumner, by Lorraine Hale Robinson with NCLR staff

Second Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming Announced, by Eric Michael Fladung

    


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