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2006 Season
 Tom Carlson taught creative nonfiction and American literature for thirty-two years at the University of Memphis. He has published academic and freelance writing in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His book on Romanian poet laureate Nichita Stanescu won the Walter R. Smith Award, and his articles on the Elvis phenomenon received the George Whatley Award for best popular culture commentary.
Eight Romanian Authors Today Co-translator, (1988)
Bas-Relief with Heroes: Selected Poems , 1960-1982 (1988)
Virgil Mazilescu: Little Bones in Winter: Selected Poems (1996)
Hatteras Blues (2005)
Copyright (c) 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Preface
It was the heart of the Great Depression, and for Ernal Foster it had turned into fish-or-cut-bait time. He'd decided to fish-which was appropriate since that's what he did for a living out of tiny Hatteras Village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ernal Foster, age twenty-five, had few prospects, $800 to his name, and an idea. He talked about his idea obsessively with his younger brother, Bill, and now he was going to see if it worked. Like almost everyone else in Hatteras Village, the Foster family made its living commercial fishing. The waters of the vast Albemarle and Pamlico sounds separating the Banks from the mainland teemed with spot, menhaden, croaker, sea trout, flounder, and many other species. When the weather was good, you could leave the sound and head out the inlets to the ocean, where you could set your nets just offshore. Even haul seining off the beaches helped to pay the bills. All of it was honest, backbreaking, mind-numbing, and often dangerous work.
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