Chappell’s most recent collection focuses on the solitary, graceful cat. His poems follow felines through field and barnyard, across sun-warmed winter floors, from porch to flower bed to “a patch / of sassafras below,” treating each cat — Emilia, Marian, Alexander, and Black Margo, to name a few — as an old friend, and a code to crack.
Retired Duke professor Applewhite’s anthology chronicles almost 30 years of his responses to life in the South. “Broom sedge in the wind has curved this bent / Into speech,” he says of the Southern accent. Applewhite’s oeuvre is a journey through a fertile landscape of language and imagination.
Kernersville native Braucht’s second collection of poems in almost 40 years contains snapshots of a life lived, of moments preserved in the ebb and flow of Southern temperaments. She conjures up images of a slower time, of people and places only dreamt of in an after-nap haze, when sight, sound, and meaning are temporarily hushed.
In her debut collection of poetry, Elkins, a Greensboro resident and 2014 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, weaves a tapestry of heat, light, and loss. She aligns the timelessness of the Old South with that of an antiquated South, revealing the dual constancy of tradition and change in a shifting world.
North Carolina has been the muse for many a Southern writer. In her trilogy, Literary Trails of North Carolina, Georgann Eubanks devotes a volume each to our western, central, and eastern regions, and the writers who were inspired by them. Literary Trails are books about books — “literary hors d’oeuvres,” Eubanks says — meant to connect writers’ work and lives to places right down the road.
Find the Literary Trails trilogy online at uncpress.unc.edu.
North Carolina is known for many things, but nothing more important this week than the qualities of endurance, resilience, and hope.
By day, this adventure park in the Triad is a fall festival to die for. By night, the undead come alive for Halloween tricks. Welcome to one man’s vision of year-round merrymaking.
North Carolina’s border dances across the mountains as it traces four different states. Life here can be more remote, but good neighbors are never far away.
The Blue Ridge Parkway stands out among America’s national parks: Unfurling across six Appalachian mountain chains, it connects dozens of rural communities and binds together generations of families through shared memories.
