John Jeremiah Sullivan

Karen E. Bender

Michael White

Jason Mott

Kevin Maurer

Wiley Cash

Philip Gerard

Virginia Holman

Jean Jones

Dana Sachs

Wendy Brenner

Melodie Homer

Marlon Rachquel Moore

Susan Taylor Block

Sheila Webster Boneham

Jason Frye

Robert Anthony Siegel

Emily A. Colin

Emily Louise Smith

Rhonda Bellamy

Gwenyfar

Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams

Ashley Wahl

Nan Graham

Bertha Boykin Todd

James R. Leutze

Daniel Ray Norris

27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. To date, contributors include Wiley Cash, Nan Graham, Jason Mott, Gwenyfar Rohler, Melodie Homer, Kevin Mauer, Virginia Holman, Dana Sachs, Rhonda Bellamy, Susan T. Block, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Emily Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bertha Boykin Todd, Philip Gerard, and more.

The Port City in Prose & Poetry

27 Views of Wilmington

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith. Taking up the perceived tensions between the LGBTQ community and religious African Americans, Marlon Rachquel Moore examines how strategies of antihomophobic resistance dovetail into broader literary and cultural concerns. In the Life and in the Spirit shows how creative writers integrate expressions of faith or the supernatural with sensuality, desire, and pleasure in a way that highlights a spectrum of black sexualities and gender expressions. Through these fusions, African American writers enact queer spiritualities that situate the well-known work of James Baldwin into a broader community of artists, including Bruce Nugent, Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Jewelle Gomez, Becky Birtha, and Octavia Butler. In these texts from 1963 to 1999, Moore identifies a pervasive, affirming stance toward LGBTQ people and culture in African American literary production.

Homoerotic Spirituality in African American Literature

In the Life and in the Spirit

Marlon Rachquel Moore

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