—article by Brian Howe North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green has been the state’s leading international champion of literature’s ground-level power for decades. Her vital voice, last heard in all… Read More →
Orange Crush
Orange Crush: The Darkroom Stays in the Picture
—article by Brian Howe Modestly sized, matted but unframed, and mounted on plain, honest wooden boards, the pictures flow in a sinuous grid along Epilogue’s crumbly brick walls. Taken one by… Read More →
Orange Crush: Into the Wild New Yonder
—article by Brian Howe When I call Eryk Pruitt, he’s immersed in an advance reader copy of a Southern crime novel that somebody wants him to blurb. Eryk spends plenty of… Read More →
Orange Crush on The Digital Commons Festival
—article by Brian Howe The Commons, the four-weekend local performing-arts festival that just got underway at UNC’s Carolina Performing Arts, is unique in many ways. One is just a social-distance… Read More →
Orange Crush: A Light in the Attic, Version 506
—Article by Brian Howe Behind an inconspicuous door at 506A West Franklin Street, stairs rise through a cool cinderblock tunnel. At the top, past the green room of the music… Read More →
