Homecoming : an anthology / by Writers Ink Guild ; [executive editor, Marie Davis Winfree ; editors, Bea Barfield, Bill Bailey, Neil D. Ray].

Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoFayetteville, N.C. : Old Mountain Press, ©1999.
Description73 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
American poetry--North Carolina.

Other author/creatorWinfree, Marie Davis.
Other author/creatorBarfield, Bea.
Other author/creatorBailey, William J. (William Jay), 1929-2019
Other author/creatorRay, Neil D.
Other author/creatorWriters Ink Guild.
Contents I. Otherwise all the magic is lost: Ritual / Shelby Stephenson -- Spirits / Brenda Kay Ledford -- Homecoming / Katie M. Robinson -- Reading before bed / Ronald H. Bayes -- The homeplace / Lenard D. Moore -- Now, here / Kathryn Bright Gurkin -- the old wood stove / Evelyn Beasley -- Breath of life / James W. McBee -- Twilight random / Gwen Holtsclaw -- Renewal / Maria Zamora Hamilton -- Nekkid or not / Charles F. Weyant -- Alone / Johanna Weyant -- An illuminating thought II / Sean S. Lohr -- Greasy grass / Nancy Bradberry.
Contents II. Though I sang in my chains like the sea: When first I woke / Bill Bailey -- Oscar / C. Pleasants York -- Fatal flaw / Joanna A. McKethan -- Visiting Daddy's grave / Jean Cromer Gouveia -- Louisiana green / Karen S. Poché -- The mercy of the court / Max Vestal (1930-1988) -- Fairy dust and other truths / Gloria E. Palmer -- Home on the range / Jan Donaldson -- A beautiful day in the parking lot / Jeff Donaldson -- To an artist from a poet / Carrie Adcox -- To learn your language / Julia Lowry Russell.
Contents III. Tell me where is fancy bred: Sonnet no. 2 / Bea Barfield -- I'll love you through the winter chill / Raymond F. Rogers -- I smelled the river / Gaye Simmons Cushing -- Childhood memories / Mary A. Summerline -- Spring cleaning / Suzanne R. Turner -- Volunteer mourner / Marie Robins -- Before it's time to go / Leon N. Summerline -- Get out of the sand / Madonna C. Jackson -- Short poem / MariJo Moore -- Touching time / Carol S. Kannan -- The promiser / Aljerin L. Butler/Nirejla -- Desert glee / Philip coons -- Peace / Clem Owens -- Franklin Street / Fred Motley -- Cotton kaleidoscope / Shirley D. Jones -- Granny / Brenda Lawlor.
Contents IV. Hang yourself, poet, in your own words: Moonlight on the Moccasin Run / Neil D. Ray -- The arrowmaker / Dr. Donald Richard Wire -- To Daddy, who died trying / Dawn Evans Radford -- For fire at the coast / Jean Dennewitz Berry -- Jeremiah departs from his bride Elyce at dawn (aubade) / Lyn Veach Sadler -- Family night at the Starlight Lounge / Julie-Ann Samuelson -- Keeping the circle is... / Barbara Braveboy-Locklear -- Sanctuary / Esther Holcombe -- Missing home / Anna Parenti White -- Jimmy Buffett and the MGB / Marie Davis Winfree.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 99060844
ISBN1884778623 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner NC Stacks PS615 .H595 1999 ✔ Available