Poet Randi Ward has collaborated with Faroese singer-songwriter Eivør Pálsdóttir to render the acclaimed artist’s tenth album, Slør, into English. The folktronica album, Pálsdóttir’s commercial debut in the United Kingdom, was released by A&G Records earlier this summer. Ward, who has written lyrics for the likes of Guðrið Hansdóttir and Icelandic sensation Ásgeir, was eager to work […]
On Saturday, April 22, eight authors from across the region will gather in Parkersburg to celebrate Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods, a new anthology of fiction and poetry from West Virginia that was published by WVU Press last month. The event, co-sponsored by WVU Press and the Parkersburg Poetry Series, will take place […]
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 […]