Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, she has published 11 collections of poetry—including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); True, False, None of the Above (Illumination Book Award Medalist); Local News from Someplace Else; Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award)—the short story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite); four children's and YA books—including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises (Finalist Children's Educational Category 2020 International Book Awards), and A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry; I'm Feeling Blue, Too! —(an NCTE Notable Book of Poetry); Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (co-editor); Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (assistant editor); and 650 stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Forthcoming in 2022 are her books Begin with a Question (Paraclete Press) and her ekphrastic collaboration with photographer Karen Elias, Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts).

Other poems by Marjorie Maddox in Verse Daily:
August 17, 2020:   "A Dog Is Not a Baby. Or It Is." "Just yesterday, outside our house...."
November 3, 2016:   "Orpheus: the Fugitive Kind" "Birds the color of sky flap their notes of freedom..."
March 18, 2014:   "Learning to Weather" "The day after the geese leave..."

Books by Marjorie Maddox:

Other poems on the web by Marjorie Maddox:
"Ode to Everything"
Three poems
Four poems
Twelve poems

Marjorie Maddox's Website.

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