Whipstitches (MadHat Press, 2016) by Randi Ward is a collection of miniature poetry snapshots of Appalachian life. Ciara Felty and I work at the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center and took a liking to the book when it was nominated for the poetry Weatherford Award in 2016.
Mountain State Press Inc. has published a new anthology Voices on Unity: Coming Together, Falling Apart. “In these unsettling times, writers are called to express their thoughts and feelings in the art medium they know best, words,” said author Cat Pleska, who edited this anthology. This collection of prose, poetry and song comes from 35 contributors from […]
Karla Hilliard recently wrote a Moving Writers blog post about how she used Whipstitches as a mentor text with her AP Literature students at Spring Mills High School in Martinsburg, WV. Here is some of the fantastic work her students created from the Whipstitches writing exercise.
West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman calls Belleville native Randi Ward “a fresh, disturbing new voice” in his praise of her most recent poetry collection, Whipstitches. Published by North Carolina-based MadHat Press, Whipstitches contains 99 compact poems that stitch together the haunting story of a family and farm in crisis, Ward said. “Underlying the whole,” author and editor […]