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Pembroke Magazine, No. 41 (2009) - coming soon!

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 40 (2008) - coming soon!

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 39 (2007) - coming soon!

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 38 (2006) contains a special section devoted to Native American Literature. This section contains remembrances of the late author Louis Owens, Gerald Vizenor's 2005 Western Literature Association Achievement Award Lecture, several essays on Native American literature, and some fine selections of poetry and fiction from contemporary Native American writers. Contributors include Gordon Henry, Kim Blaeser, Chris LaLonde, John Purdy, MariJo Moore, John Smelcer, Linda Hogan, and many, many more.

In addition to the special section, this edition of Pembroke Magazine includes an interview with Stanley Plumly conducted by Grace Cavalieri. Kent Brown also interviews Billy Edd Wheeler, and Heather Ross Miller is honored by North Carolina Writers.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 37 (2005) contains tributes to the poets William Harmon (guest edited by Robert West) and Glenna Luschei (guest edited by Steven Scher).

In addition to the features on Harmon and Luschei, this edition of Pembroke Magazine includes an interview with poet Daniel Alarcøn conducted by Liliana Wendorff. There are essays by Ronald Bayes, Reinhold Grimm, and Elizabeth Evans and work by many fine poets. There is also a special section in which North Carolina Writers honor Sally Buckner.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 36 (2004) focuses on the work of two important Southern writers, Chris Fuhrman and Tim McLaurin.  The tribute to Chris Fuhrman was compiled by D.G. Martin and features several essays on Fuhrman and his work. There are also several poems by Fuhrman and three short stories, "Thirteen," "The Big Catch," and "How to Pick Up Girls." An impressive array of personal photographs are also featured in this section.

Professor Emeritus Joe Mandel compiled the special tribute to Tim McLaurin. Readers will find many photographs, an interview with McLaurin, and personal remembrances by Carol McLaurin, Meghan McLaurin, Lee Smith, Kaye Gibbons, Pat Conroy, Elizabeth Spencer, Clyde Edgerton, and many, many others.

In addition to the features on McLaurin and Fuhrman, this edition of Pembroke Magazine includes a spotlight on the work of poet Gunter Kunert with an introductory essay by Reinhold Grimm. There is also a special selection of poems by Valter Maccaferri as well as an interview with the poet. There is an interview with Robert Morgan, an NC writers' salute to William S. Powell, several short stories, memoirs, photos, and many wonderful poems.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 35 (2003), 337 pages, features the work of North Carolina's own Robert Morgan. This addition also work by Anna Wooten Hawkins, Victor Dalmas, Jr., and an Interview with Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Roy Parker, Jr. is honored by several North Carolina writers.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 34 (2002), 331 pages, features Jill McCorkle, novelist and teacher. This addition also includes a tribute to Gerald Barrax.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 33 features writings about the works of novelist, teacher, and humanitarian Lee Smith.  The critic Sue Laslie Kimball suggested to Editor Shelby Stephenson that the magazine presents such a project, using as a base papers from a Southern Literary Symposium at Methodist College on Lee Smith's fiction.  Kimball and Stepehenson also invited writers and scholars to participate in this special issue.  Some of these participants are: Robert Morgan, Nancy Tilly, Robert West, Nancy Parrish, Bland Simpson, Grace Gibson, William Teem, Nancy Barrineau, Richard Vela, Jesse Peters, and so many more.

In addition to the feature on Lee Smith, this edition of Pembroke Magazine includes a tribute to poet Gerald R. Barrax.

Keeping with the Magazine's international identity, participating are these writers from North Wales: Alison Bielski and Richard Ball.

There are short stories in this issue by Floyd Skloot and William B. Joyner, plus a memoir by Nancy Tilly.  And many, many poems!

The measure of success for Pembroke 33 is the continuity of the magazine — these thirty-three years!

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 32

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 31 (1999), 310 pages, is devoted to current Hungarian poetry and to the life and work of writer and humanist John Ehle.  Grace Cavalieri interviews Robert Pinsky.  William Harmon, Robert Morgan and John Hope Franklin are also featured.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 30 (1998), a 294-page issue, focuses on the German poet Karl Krolow.  Reinhold Grimm, a contributing editor to Pembroke Magazine, introduces Krolow and translates his poetry.  There is also a feature on poet and publisher Glenna Luschei (with an essay on her life and work by Hugh Fox).  There is an interview with Josephine Jacobsen (by Grace Cavalieri).  Betty Hodges and Ed Hodges contribute fiction.  Fred Chappell contributes an essay on the poetry of Sam Ragan.  N. C. writers honor children's storyteller and artist Glen Rounds with tributes.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 29 (1997) is a special Daphne Athas issue.  Eighty-one pages are devoted to Athas's fiction and poetry.  Ferruccio Brugnaro is also featured.  There are three essays on Thomas Wolfe's life and work — by Reid Huntley, Joanne Marshall Mauldin, and Morton I. Teicher.  And there are lots of poems by Anthony Abbott, Merrill Leffler, Jeffery Beam, Ann Goldsmith, and others.  The issue is 280 pages long.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 28 (1996) is also 160 pages.  It is a general issue, featuring stories by Tom Wicker and Bill Toole, poems by Fleda Brown Jackson, Robert Wallace, Jared Carter, Deborah Brody, Stephen E. Smith and many others.  John Foster West contributes poems also and there is a tribute to him by N. C. writers.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 27 (1995) is a special North Carolina native American Women Writers issue.  There is a special Canadian Poetry Sample.  And there is fiction by Heather Ross Miller.  There are essays by William Doreski, Ronald H. Bayes, Nathaniel Burt, and Richard Ball.  There are many poems — by Lenard D. Moore, Simon J. Ortiz, Barbara Guest, Kathleen Halme, and others.  North Carolina writers honor H. G. Jones, longtime curator of the N. C. Collections at the Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Number 26 is 160 pages.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 26 (1994) is the Joseph Mitchell special issue.  N. C. writers salute John Ehle.  And there is an interview with Andrew Lytle.  Other contributors are Betty Adcock, Reinhold Grimm, Hugh Fox, Al Maginnes, Janie Fink, Ronald H. Bayes, and William Walsh.  Mary C. Williams has an essay on the poetry of Betty Adcock.  And Adcock contributes some poems.  The issue is 187 pages long.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 25 (1993) has a feature on Takamura Kotaro and his poetry by Hiroaki Sato.  The 156-page issue features also fiction by William Joyner and Heather Ross Miller.  There are poems by Lou Lipsitz, Carolyn Stoloff, Carl Martin, Richard Kostelanetz, Agnes McDonald, Cory Brown, and many others.  And the issue carries a tribute to novelist Wilma Dykeman.

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Pembroke Magazine, No. 24 (1992) presents contemporary poetry of Germany.  Thus Stephenson continues the international focus, eclectic content, and quest for new talent begun by Macleod when he founded the magazine.

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