27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of Greensboro writers writing about life in their city. This chorus of voices explores its complicated history, its contemporary challenges and richness, its grit, its joys, its tragedies. The variety of subjects and experiences told through a variety of genres (journalism, essays, short stories, poetry) create a sense of place, an identity that is particular to Greensboro. From the city's iconic Civil Rights struggle ...

Best Creative Nonfiction of the South serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. This North Carolina volume, second in the series, contains essays that celebrate and document the Tar Heel state’s diverse cultures and geography, from the mountains to the sea. The writers included here come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artist...

Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain accent, the smell of a tobacco field under the hot Piedmont sun. Some of North Carolina’s finest writers ruminate on the meaning of place in this collection of twenty-one original essays, untangling North Carolina’s influence on their work, explor...