I. Before Pennsylvania, the world was flat, the distance between two horizons a straight view. In those other states, I walked a state-of-mind, linear but un-liveable. Map coordinates located something less than inhale/exhale. Now place has something to do with oxygen horded in the limbs of hemlock and elm, with the way these mountains […]
Marjorie Maddox
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University and a poetry editor of Presence, Marjorie Maddox has published eleven collections of poetry, including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize, 1 of three finalists Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes; re-release Wipf & Stock 2018, 2020 Philip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award); True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series and Illumination Book Award Medalist); Wives' Tales (Seven Kitchens Press Editor's Series); Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013); a 2013 ebook of Perpendicular As I ; print version of Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award); Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech 2006); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999); Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as over 650 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. Her poem, “Arise,” about the Thailand cave rescue, was awarded the 2019 Foley Poetry Prize by America Magazine (1st out of 1,200 entries).
Forthcoming in 2022 is her ekphrastic collection with photographer Karen Elias, Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts Publishing). In February 2022, Paraclete Press will publish her poetry collection Begin with a Question.