AM: Amy, thanks for doing this interview about Red Dirt Press. Congratulations, too, for reaching the six year mark. You focus on publishing poetry and prose that examines the complexities and diversities of the New South. You also have a focus on social justice issues that are global in nature yet connect to the New […]
Excerpts from Julia Nunnally Duncan’s “A Neighborhood Changes”
May 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Julia Nunnally Duncan’s forthcoming poetry collection A Neighborhood Changes (Finishing Line Press, August 17, 2018) explores the lives of the lonely, the aged, the ill, and the injured. The collection’s first section, A Neighborhood Changes, documents the author’s experiences from childhood to the present in a Western North Carolina town and explores the theme of change […]
May Read of the Month: “A Part of Me,” by Julia Nunnally Duncan
May 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Joseph Bathanti Julia Nunnally Duncan’s incantatory new volume of poems, A Part of Me, is the lyric inventory of all that has passed before the poet’s eye, committed deftly to the page, a litany of praise-songs and elegies. If Memory (Mnemosyne, the Greek Titan Goddess) is indeed the Mother of the Muses, then Duncan […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan, Author of “A Place That Was Home”
November 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
AM: Julia, it’s great to have the opportunity to promote a regular contributor to Southern Literary Review. Tell us a little about your new collection of essays, A Place That Was Home. JND: Thank you, Allen. I appreciate your introducing my new book to your readers. A Place That Was Home is my first nonfiction […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan
February 27, 2013 by 4 Comments
AM: Thank you for taking the time to do this interview, and congratulations on your forthcoming book, Barefoot in the Snow. This is, I believe, your third collection of poetry. How does this one differ from your earlier books of poetry? JND: Barefoot in the Snow reflects a more mature vision and perspective of events […]