Welford has published poems in journals including Karamu, Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, Dickinson Review, Rhino, and New Mexico Humanities Review. She has also published several articles. One article discussing the possible connections between a poem by Ezra Pound and one by Thomas Wyatt appears in Paideuma: A Journal of Pound Studies; another article, about "re-animating" students' interest in poetry, appears in Florida English Journal; and another one, which combines memoir with ideas about being a working-class person in an academic world, appears in Those Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents. Her most recent article, "Code-Meshing and Creative Assignments: How Students Can Stop Worrying and Learn to Write Like Da Bomb," will appear in Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance, edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Martinez.

 

Welford's edited collection of poetry, The Paradelle, which features "A Brief History of the Paradelle," written by former poet laureate Billy Collins, was published by Red Hen Press in 2005. The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, which features an introduction by poet and editor David Lehman, is her second edited collection. Welford has also written a critical unpublished manuscript about the connections between the Movement writers, who were prominent in 1950s England, and the New Formalists, who first came onto the American scene in the late 1970s. And she's working on a number of essays and poems, a children's book called We Grow Happiness Here, and a poetry chapbook called Human Voices Wake Us. She's also pondering the idea of writing a book about creative ways to bring writing into the classroom.