Marjorie Maddox, winner of America Magazine's 2019 Foley Poetry Prize and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, 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 story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); four children's and YA books—including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Readiing Poems with Insider Exercises (Finalist Children's Educational Category 2020 International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry; Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems; and I'm Feeling Blue, Too!—;Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (co-editor); Presence (assistant editor); and 600+ stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Her book Begin with a Question is forthcoming from Paraclete Press in 2021.

Other poems by Marjorie Maddox in Verse Daily:
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:
Three poems
Four poems
Twelve poems

Marjorie Maddox's Website.

Marjorie Maddox on Twitter.

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