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 […]
One Little Independent records will release Ásgeir Traust’s debut English-language album, In The Silence, next year. The album includes the extra track “Lupin Intrigue” with lyrics written by West Virginian poet Randi Ward. In an interview with Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið, Ward described how the song lyrics were inspired by her time living on the Westman […]
About a year ago now we introduced an album release by Guðrið Hansdóttir titled Beyond the Grey. Guðrið is a native of the Faroe Islands and the album captured the magic of that place (read our review here). It was through this album that I was first introduced to Randi Ward a poet from West Virginia. […]