Peasant is available from Pulley Press, publishing poets who write from America's rural places
“Peasant reveals deeply human efforts to persist in a deeply beloved landscape”—Anna Lena Phillips Bell
peasant food . . . must be mixed with your hands.
Grandmother taught us that
—Nikki Giovanni
bird dogs and roses
spill out of my chest
from “Sacred Hearts of Henry County”
Books
Bootleg. Groundhog Poetry Press. 2019. (finalist for Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry).
Where You Come From Is Gone, awarded Adrienne Bond Poetry Award from Mercer University Press (2022).
When God Was a Child, micro-chapbook, Inch Series #56, Bull City Press (Oct. 2023).
Peasant. Pulley Press. 2025.
Selected Publications
Annie Woodford’s Poems from Peasant, from Salvation South, 14 Sept. 2025.
“Soft, Softer.” MQR Mixtape, 2023.
“Draft Animal.” North Carolina Literary Review Online Winter 2023, 2023, p. 125.
“Quiet as It’s Kept.” Terrain.org, 2020.
“A Poem in Which I Grab My Poverty Like That Jaguar in the Video Grabbed a Crocodile Out of the River and Carried It into the Jungle.” Southern Humanities Review, 2020.
“And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men” and “Great Road.” Blackbird, 2019.
“My Mama, My Aunt, and Even I” and “In Order to Deny the Fact of Death, Which is the Only Is the Only Fact We Have.” Waxwing, 2019.
“My Father’s House Had Wheels.” storySouth, 2019.
“My Fifth Elegy” and “The Transient Here.” The Rumpus, 2018.
“In the Pipeline’s Path.” Rattle (Poets Respond), 2018.
“Arena Chapel Stringband Ballad.” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, 2017.
Essay I wrote for the North American Review about my poem “Southside.”
Review of Bootleg from the North Carolina Literary Review
Carrie Teresa Sage’s review of Where You Come from Is Gone in the Southern Review of Books.
Interview with Cameron McKenzie, published in Blackbird.
Interview with Andy Fogle, published in Salvation South.
Chuck Reece’s Salvation South Podcast about my work on Georgia Public Radio.
Poem for the Southern Virginia Land Conservancy
National Poetry Month Reading Wilkes Public Libraries
Cover image from Bootleg: Relic, JJ (an envelope love letter, a bird)
by Alison Hall, gouache and graphite on found envelope, 2016