How to Write a Ballad
Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”
By Annie Woodford and Alison Hall
Art
How to Write a Ballad
Two lifelong friends—one a poet, one a painter–talk about it all: labor, joy, and love; the value of slowness; the subtleties of structure; and how to “make it soft, make it low.”
By Annie Woodford and Alison Hall /
Poetry
Devotions Over and Over
Appalachian men and women: their weathered hands, the horseshoes over their doors, and the angels that watch over them.
By Annie Woodford /
Poetry
Dust and Mercy
A poet from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina on landscape, family, and how we’re obligated to both.
By Matthew Wimberley /
Poetry
Devotions Over and Over
Appalachian men and women: their weathered hands, the horseshoes over their doors, and the angels that watch over them.
By Annie Woodford /
Poetry
Everlasting Blue
How do you answer poverty, doubt, and worries about your kids? With the scent of sweet briar, the realness of animals, and a bridge in the dark.
